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Shaastra - IIT Madras’s Annual Technical Festival
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Shaastra, IIT Madras’s annual technical festival celebrates the spirit of engineering. It is a meeting ground for some of the finest young technical minds of India with over 800 colleges from all across the country taking part. Such a unique atmosphere provides one with opportunities to learn from so many others, as well as present, innovative and new ideas and solutions to modern day problems. One also gets to interact with the brightest minds from the industry and the academia.
Shaastra promises to fulfill your dreams of listening to science and technology’s biggest names live or quite literally, reaching for the moon. Apart from featuring video conferences with Nobel Laureates John Cromwell Mather (2006 for Physics) and Harold Kroto (1996 for Chemistry) and lectures with other imminent scientists like Dr. N.K. Karmakar, and Dr. Thamban Meloth of the Indian Antarctic mission, the spotlight of Shaastra will be on events like Yu Fly wherein VTOL crafts will be made, the setting up of a Jatropha oil-run Bio-Diesel plant and the Ultimate Engineer which will test not just one’s theoretical, but one’s practical knowledge too.
Shaastra design events will ask of you, simple solutions to problems faced in the industry as part of our Industry Defined Problems. One also gets to design the world’s next hottest gadgets and machines as part of the event Aesthetique, which incidentally has seen colleges like IISc. and RNS Institute of Technology do well in the past. The latest innovations in IC Engines and designs of purely mechanical energy-driven vehicles can also be presented as part of Fire n Ice and Momentum.
Shaastra has prided itself in its very strong Robotics culture and it’s no different this time. The Contraptions, Junkyard Wars and Project X- one gets to study medieval military engineering in the Art of War.
Quizzing at IIT Madras is a separate subculture to itself and the two quizzes at Shaastra- How Things Work, and the Shaastra Main Quiz are among, if not the most prestigious in the country. Apart from these, Shaastra has events that will test your Math Modelling and Simulation skills. A workshop on entrepreneurship is also being organized at Shaastra every year.
Workshops at Shaastra are trendsetters across the country. There we will be conducting workshops on Advanced Materials, Open source, Radio Circuitry, Bio-Engineering and a most interesting one on the Rubik’s cube. However one of the highlights of this last year’s edition of Shaastra is the Chandrayaan workshop. With India set to enter the big league by launching its first unmanned lunar craft-Chandrayaan, this workshop, through guest lectures and panel discussions will aim to show us how this mission will provide answers about the moon that previous missions have not been able to. It is a matter of national pride and it’s only fitting that Shaastra 2007 be able to feature it.
For any clarifications and all the details about the events, the problem statements and rules and regulations, please visit Shaastra Official Website
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