Kaleidoscope 2005 a grand success

For the first time Kaleidoscope was organized at a very massive scale. We divided activities during oorja into 3 parts:

Core competitions: included paper presentation contest, Programming Contest, TechQuiz, Open Software, Open Hardware, Open Design, Web Designing Contest, GK Quiz, Creative Writing and JAM Session

Fun Zone included events like Treasure Hunt, Dare, Lan Game, Skit Competition, Face Painting, Blind Date, Ad Hawk, painting exhibition/contest

Events: Workshops: For first time we had 4 workshops during oorja itself: J2ME by Mr. Abhay Jain, Impetus, Latest Technologies in electronics by Mr. Tapan Mukherji, Personality Development by Cerebral Heights and Linux by SSI.

Several movies were also screened during the 2 days of oorja.

During Deeksha we had Techtalk by Dr. Pushpak Bhattacharya, IIT Bombay and HRtalk by Mr Ambrish Kanungo, HR Manager, Impetus. In deeksha also a movie was screened.

The annual newsletter: Interface was also released in Deeksha (To download: http://www.rootshell.be/~abacuscl/downloadnl.htm ).

Apart from handsome cash sponsorship 1.4 lacs we also got 600 digit magazines + 200 scoar gaming magazines + several Technology Encyclopedia CDS from the sponsor Digit. These were distributed to the participants.

Kaleidoscope was also very well covered by several newspapers including Times of India (Education Plus), Hindustan Times, Free Press, Dainik Bhaskar, Naidunia and Navbharat.