Manthan "A lifetime in three weeks"

Manthan Day-1

"Manthan" -The eweek celebration at Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research,Pune started with a bang.50 feet Manthan banners dropping down the building,sponsors posters and kiosks and music had already created a platform for a big event.
Manthan was inaugurated by Mr.Dhiraj Khot,founder and CEO of August Solutions.The inaguratory speech was followed by Saraswati Vandan and lamp lighting.The SICSR startup U-Town was launched by our chief guest.
The next event on the list was "Listen and Learn".We were gratified by the presence of two emminent personalities.Mr.Anurag Agrawal,CEO - Knowledge Quest Infotech Pvt Ltd. and Mr.Pandurang Taware,Director Agro Tourism,India.All the students were motivated and inspired by the experiences shared by the guests.
A workshop called Drona was arranged where ladies learned making paper bags , so that they can start their own ventures, and a workshop was also organised to teach them the use and advantages of computers.
Meanwhile the students has set up food stalls in the campus under the event "Bhojanalya".We had pani puri,fruit salad,briyani,barbeque stalls which were cluttered with students.
ownNext we had "Nukkad Nautanki" - Street Play - The theme was "Business Opportunities ".The winning team was from SIG and SICSR.
Once the competitions were over all the volunteers came together to celebrate the eweek in a cheerful and joyful way through a series of fun games like antakshri ,on the spot games etc.

Manthan 2

A new day with renewed hopes of an exciting day . Today we had the most exciting event called El-Do-Ra-Do(Treasure Hunt) presented by Spykar. 13 teams fought for it . They had to solve difficult clues & go all around Pune to find the next one & two joint runner ups after a lot of drama. But every one right from participants, volunteers & organizers had a gala time.
In the meantime we had “Piccaso Effect” & “Make your Mark” the poster competition and logo designing was going on where the participants creative talent was tested as the theme was Business Opportunities in India .

After a long day the whole Manthan Team got together to wind down . We enjoyed musical atmosphere which was created by our committee members.

Manthan 3

The day started with participants setting up their food stalls and other shops . We had people selling fruit salads , making tattoos, and selling cosmetic jewellery .
In the afternoon all the creative minds were showcasing their documentaries in ‘Chal Chitra’ out of which 3 were screened . Then the judge announced the eventual winner .

In the meantime the participating started trading stocks for “Bulls & Bears” a virtual stock market game trying to maximize their profits, so that they can win it at the end of the week.

We started with our NEN awareness drive, where people got chocolates for answering questions on the ongoing events, this event got a tremendous response from the students
Again in the evening volunteers got together for musical chairs & we had an awesome end to the day .

Manthan 4

Day 4 started with some interesting events lined up like “Lets Click” a photography event, 4Ps a marketing game , and “Think Hatke” a case study based event .

In the photography event briefing was done for all the participants and they are supposed to submit the hardcopies tomorrow.

In “4P’s’ the teams were given a task to sell as many subscription of Youth Eye Magazine as possible .As I write this article we are expecting the articles any moment .

‘Think –Hatke” had a case-study where they were asked to give a innovative solution to a fractious problem of a company , where the company is a renowned brand in the shoe polish market , but want to enter the lipstick market.

Manthan 5

The day had one of the most important event of our fest , the B-plan contest where five teams were shortlisted from all the entries received .
They were asked to present their plans to the judges , the fellow participants and the audience dissected their presentation to the basics to test their overall understanding . Ultimately we got one winner of intense 3 hours.
Meanwhile we had two other events “Seedhi Baat” and “Its all Yours” a panel discussion on infrastructure and an event management competition respectively , both the events had overwhelming participation , which was an indicator of its success .

Looking forward to another day.

Manthan 6

Most of the events on this day were pretty unique to say the least, Guru dakshina-here the participants had to go to different schools & colleges teach the students & earn money out of it

Then we had TurnCourt for faculty members and the students-here the students had to speak for a topic for sometime and then change his stance after a certain point of time. The faculty members participated in it with lot of enthusiasm.

We also had Work in 127.0.0.1 a website building game where the participants were asked to build the Arsh website .

In the meantime the NEN enlightment quiz was a hit among the students because they were getting chocolates for answering correctly .

Manthan 7

Today we had our one of the most difficult operational event Let Them Know , where we had to coordinate with 60 students to make the citizen aware of the conservation of natural resources through asking questions of a questionnaire. This event was supported my PMC & Model Colony Parisar Sudharna Samiti .

Most of the citizen were happy to answer the questions and were appreciative of

Day @ KPO was our signature event as it has been never tried before in any completion . Here the real-time scenarios were provided to the participants and they had to convince the judge with a solution and in the second round they had to try to pitch a sales over the phone . most of the participants joined in because they wanted to experience the real-life situation in the outsourcing industry.

Manthan-8

We had scheduled another guest lecture as a part of our Listen & Learn initiative in which we had invited two distinguished entrepreneurs Mr . Prashant Pansare Managing Director of Inteliment a player in the Business Analytics field & Mr. Shri Deshpande CEO of Radiant Minds and IT consulting & training company .Mr Pansare gave an insightful presentation on entrepreneurship which I am sure would give all the audience member a better clarity towards the idea of entrepreneurship .

In the meantime Play Wild our hugely popular gaming event was being organized with professional & amateurs testing their skills against each other in four different games CS ,COD ,FIFA & NFS .

In the evening we had closing ceremony with prize distribution which was presided by our Director Mr. Lalit Katpalia & the chief guest for the evening Mr. Sanjay Saxena Vice President for India Operations SIMS is the world’s largest Metal and Electronic Recycler.

The function was punctuated by a grand display of fireworks which was enjoyed one & all .