Its that time of the year again when brains from all over theAsiameet each other face2face, compete with all their programming and problem solving skills in C, C++ and Java.. Yes..!! You guessed it right.. its ICPCtime again atAmrita University..!!
Welcome to ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest2009 Asia Regionals, the multitier, team-based,programming competition operating under the auspices of ACM and headquartered at Baylor University.
ACM ICPC 2009 Asia Regionals – Online Contest over internet will be held at Amrita University,Kerala.
Each team will consist of 3 members, all undergraduate, and they will be asked to solve a set of 8-10 programming challenge problems – mostly based on algorithms, within a period of 4 hours.!! The choice of programming language between Java, C++ and C is upto the team.

How to register????
A team can only compete in ACM ICPC 2009 Asia Regionals, if-n-only-if they’ve registered for the same. So, register here Registration is for one team, consisting of 3 contestants and one coach. The “coach”
refers to any full time faculty member of the university or institution, where the
contestants pursue their studies.
Hurry up!!! Last date for registration is: 9 September 2009.

ExNoRa, a non-government Chennai-based voluntary environmental service organisation, has launched a a massive Cool the Globe campaign by name, “99999 lights out” to create awareness on global warming, its causes, consequences and solutions. The campaign carries the message – switch off lights for 9 minutes at 9 p.m. on the 9th day of the 9th month on the 9th year of the millennium. The aim of the 99999 Lights Out Campaign is to combat Global warming, to make people more conscious about the environment, to motivate people to reduce their respective carbon footprint, to mitigate climate change and to teach people Adaptation and Disaster Preparedness techniques.

College of Chengannur is organising a two day national level technical festival SUMMIT-09 on the 17th and 18th of August 2009.SUMMIT is a biennial technical festival conducted by CEC which aims at augmenting the technical and non-technical skills of young engineering minds

Various events like Best Manager,Webdesigning,Quiz competition,Project Expo,C-Debugging etc are the main attractions of the fest

More information can be obtained from the official site of summit

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham join hands with Buffalo-SUNY University to organise a Indo-Us Conference & Workshop on CYBER Security,CYBER Crime and CYBER FORENSICS from 19th of August 2009 to 21st of August 2009 at at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre (AIMS), Amrita Lane, AIMS Ponekkara Post, Kochi, Kerala 682 041, India.

This program will have tutorials, and workshop sessions aimed at bringing eminent researchers from both academia and industry under one roof to discuss and deliberate on the best technologies and socio economic approaches to effectively thwart increasing threats of global cyber-crime and initiate cyber security defenses. A stimulating program is being planned featuring invited talks and tutorials from experts from the U.S. and India with panel discussions.

Metro Manorama with Asian School Of business is organising WizQuiz a General Quiz competition for the degree students on the 26th of July 2009 at Tagore theatre Thiruvanathapuram.

Wiz Quiz is a Mega Quiz event in kerala which offers prizes worth Rs 3.5lakhs…

Fresh graduates can also apply for the competition..so get ready and form a team with your Quiz partner and register yourself by sending a mail in the following format to pauljoseph@mm.co.in or hashimjr@mm.co.in

Member- A- Name,class/course,Institution,contact no,Full Address

Member- B- Name,class/course,Institution,contact no,Full Address

Team mates need not be from the same college,any number of teams from a college is allowed.

As a part of the intra events of ASTRAL 09,

ETA,the electronics and communication students of SBCe had wonderfully organised and conducted AVIKSHIT-’09 on the first day of intra events.

It consisted mainly of two programmes

1. EXUBERANCE-’09

The search for the best debators of  SBCE.

There were four teams made up of 2 students in the final. Out of which t wo teams were taken at a time and they had a cross debate each other. There were two such sessions and the best two of the four teams selected by the judges had participated in the finals.

Campus Blogging has already become a great initiative in the state with the number of campus blogs growing to  7. Blogging is no more  an alien term in campuses today.With the popularity of the idea of campus blogging growing day by day, a group of campus bloggers from Four Engineering colleges  gathered at Technopark Thiruvananthapuram on the 21st of February 2009.The meeting was organised by Campus blogging Initiative under the leadership of Mr.Kenney Jacob and Mr.Sanil S

Mr kenney started the discussions by introducing the newly desined logo for Barcampkerala by Mr.Jithin Babu of vosree.com. The logo simply explains the barcampkerala-technopark tieup.

CULTA, Inaugurated!!!!!!!!!

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“……….Ride on! Rough -shod if need be,smooth -shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race!”

Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse. At the same time, having knowledge is another, being able to express is another. For a complete development of a person’s personality, the power of both knowledge and its articulation play complementary roles. Each is incomplete without the other. At a Literary & Technical club, we find them both given an equal importance.

vosree,,the voice of sree buddha,,,a small dream of a heart which has fulfilled the dreams of many,has crossed yet another milestone of 15k hits.So for the celebration of the historic moment ,what else better than opening another door for the future engineers.The members of the vosree club under the inspiring leadership of Mr.sujith .T.John,CS8 organised an entrepreneurship development class.

The whole college got the opportunity to attend the celebration cum class in the last hour on 12th of February 2008.Mr Sreejith S,Technical Officer Technopark-Technology Business Incubator, thiruvanathapuram was the chief guest.

The second meeting of Campus Blogging Club was conducted on 30th October,2008. The agenda of the meeting was to form sub-groups which would be taking care of the different sections in Vosree. Accordingly, different sub-groups were formed with a good number of members in each sub-group. The sub-groups were formed in different sections like Poems, Reviews(books, bikes, gadgets), Technical section, Let’s speak about, Thought of the week, Stories, Experiences(incidents). Many other sections were kept on hold and new ideas from the members were encouraged. Many new members did come for the first time for the meeting and many complained about the time of conduction of the meeting as it came at odd hours for them to actually join us. Care would be taken in fixing the dates from next meeting onwards. A good suggestion was put forward by one of the members about starting tutorials for photo shop and HTML. Encouraging the suggestion, Riji sir actually started a program of conducting seminar on photo shop. This would be taken by Jithin Babu(CS5) in the next meeting and would be carried on fortnightly. At the end of meeting, Varun(CS5) took a seminar on WordPress to impart some basics  to us. Altogether it was a lively meeting.