The students, faculty and staff of the MCA Dept of the College jointly organised a small charity work at Sree Parvathy Sevanilayam, Choolissery, on 16 March 2019. The Sevanilayam, working with the recognition of the Orphanage Control Board since 2000, is a rehabilitation centre for differently abled girls and women.

The initiative for organising such a charity work came from the students of S6 MCA batch (2016 admissions) and they planned every detail of the various activities to be conducted as part of the charity work. They collected money from among themselves and there was absolutely no compulsion to contribute any specific amount of money. From the very beginning, it was decided that the entire point of the work should be to give some moments of happiness to the unfortunate brothers and sisters staying in the Sevanilayam and awaken all participants about the fortunate circumstances in which all of them now lived.

With the money raised, the students contributed two kitchen racks and a few items like adult diapers to the center; they distributed some bakery items and fruits to the inmates; they planted a tree in the compound of the center. They, along with the inmates, staged several entertainment events like dance, music, magic, etc.

Incidentally, this year’s charity work was the ninth such programme the Dept had been organisiing every year. The first such programme was conducted in 2010 – 11.

A team of S6 BTech CSE students, which calls itsef VERSATILE, has been declared the winners for the problem statement (SA2) in the AICTE Smart India Hackathon 2019 (SIH 2019) (Software Edition) held at Chitkara University, Punjab. The 36 hour hackathon was held on 2 – 3 March 2019.

SIH 2019 is a nationwide initiative to provide students a platform to solve some of pressing problems we face in our daily lives, and thus inculcate a culture of product innovation and a mindset of problem solving.

In SIH 2019, the students had also the opportunity to work on challenges faced within the private sector organisations and to create world class solutions for some of the top companies in the world, thus helping the private sector hire the best minds from across the nation.

Team VERSATILE had worked on “Farm to Fork traceability of Farm Produce” and implemented the idea of “farm to fork” traceability using blockchain technology which provides complete transparency at each tier of the life span of a product, starting from the farm to the hands of a customer. The team was awarded Rs.50,000 as the prize money. It was a problem posed by Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds Co. (Mahyco) which is an agricultural company in India. It is one of the country’s major producers of seed.

There were hackathons in three categories: “Complex” with a prize money of Rs.1,00,000, “Complicated” with a prize money of Rs.75,000 and “Simple” with a prize money of Rs.50,000. Team VERSATILE competed in the “Simple” category.

Team VERSATILE
Mohamed Sayyaf (Leader) (S6 BTech CSE B)
Sebastian T F (S6 BTech CSE B)
Vini Sasidharan (S6 BTech CSE B)
Shoukkiya Ashraf (S6 BTech CSE B)
Shaheen N S (S6 BTech CSE B)
Hemanth Janesh (S6 BTech CSE)

Dear Alumni,

2018 pass-out ECE students of our Alma Matter, who made 'Non-Invasive hemoglobin tester (B-hue)' the first incubatee to IIMB from entire Kerala, through IICDC 2017, are one among the 8 finalists competing in the international competition 'ASME Innovation Showcase(ISHOW)', a hardware led social innovation competition. The final is scheduled on 4th April'2019. Please support our alumni by voting through this link.

https://thisishardware.org/competition/2019/social_voting/india

If the team gets the maximum social poll, they shall be rewarded $10000 as prize money. Please like and support as well as share to this link among ur friend circles. The voitng ends on 03/04/2019

NOTE: All are also requested to vote by visiting the link and also confirm your vote by visiting the link notified to the email.

VIDMEDIA - Official media Club of VAST released the official promo of VYVIDH 2K19

*Vyvidh'19 Official* - https://youtu.be/A_v2KUVHmsY
*CE* - https://youtu.be/mVPawKc_T2M
*CSE* - https://youtu.be/3mV_vXT62XA
*ECE* - https://youtu.be/Zqfjyke0xdA
*EEE* - https://youtu.be/VyYJ2XhDFzc
*ME* - https://youtu.be/4mJbXDrXSc8
*PE* - https://youtu.be/hMc5Qyc5nj8
*MCA* - https://youtu.be/lKn8Y8vZuxA

AVA Member - VASUDA K V seeks support from AVA Family as a part of her research related to brain behaviour and phone addiction at Govt. Engineering College, Trichur. All are requested to participate in the online survey by visiting the links given below. It may take 1-2 minutes only.

In advance she has conveyed her thanks for the patience and time spent to support her.

എന്റെ റിസേർച്ചിന്റെ ഭാഗമായി (Brain behaviour and phone addiction) നടത്തുന്ന ഓൺലൈൻ സർവ്വേയിൽ പങ്കെടുക്കാൻ വിനീതമായി അഭ്യർത്ഥിക്കുന്നു.

Form(english): https://goo.gl/forms/17gqVGqvGyBcoHUu2
Or
മലയാളം ഫോം : https://goo.gl/forms/MDKRbntwBlznbhUW2

The 3rd edition of Vidya Cup Inter-Collegiate Football Tournament was held in the campus on 23 – 24 February 2019.

The tournament was inaugurated by Mr Vishak Nair (promising cine artist of Aanandham fame) in a colorful opening ceremony. Er G Mohanachandran, Executive Director, Dr Saji C B, Principal, Sri K M Parameswara Swamy, Managing Director, KMP Consultants, Dr S Swapnakumar (Prof and Head, ECE,Dept) members of faculty and students attended the function.

As many as 22 engineering colleges and 3 polytechnic colleges from different parts of South India took part in the tournament. IES College of Engineering, Chittilappilly, won the champion title by defeating Cochin University of Science & Technology, Kochi, in a tie-breaker decider. Mr Akhil T A of Maharaja’s Technical Institute, Thrissur, was adjudged as the ‘Man of the Tournament’ and secured a Trophy and Cash award worth Rs.5000 sponsored by Vidya’s alumnus Mr Yoonus M P (2010-14 B Tech EEE (2010 – 14 batch)) and B Tech ME (2007-11 batch).

Alma Matter becomes a wing of State Govt's IT Hub

Kerala Government has launched its IT hub at Vidya as part of its initiative to develop the skills of budding engineers. In the first stage, the Kerala government has initiated the IT hub at 20 colleges. As a result of this, the students of these colleges will be able to communicate live with each other. They will also be able to conduct live skill development sessions. Chief Minister Shri Pinarayi Vijayan inaugurated the event at Thiruvananthapuram through a video conference. Tourism Minister Shri Kadakampally Surendran, IT Secretary M Sivasankar, IAS, and Dr Saji Gopinath attended the function. The programme is being organised by Kerala IT Mission.

An awareness talk about the Master of Business Administration (MBA) program and about the various opportunities through an MBA degree was held in the Auditorium for the 2020 pass out batch B Tech students on 19 February 2019. The main speaker on the occasion was Mr Diju Jose from T.I.M.E., an institute in Thrissur that provides coaching for appearing in competitive examinations, who touched upon the various entrance examinations like CAT/MAT/CMAT and exposed the students to the typical subject areas that are tested as part of these competitive examinations. He provided an overview of how to prepare for such examinations and shared the likely examination schedule for the coming academic year. A list of top institutes and universities offering the program with their indicative selection cut-off scores was also discussed.

Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana – Technical Institutions (PMKVY-TI) is the flagship scheme of the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship under the Govt. of India and delivered by AICTE at the technical institutes across the country. The objective of the scheme is to enable a large number of Indian youth to take up industry-relevant skill training that will help them in securing a better livelihood.

As part of this initiative, during the academic year 2017-18, the College had conducted the following courses:

Plumber (General)
LED Light Repair Technician

The first batch of students who were trained under the scheme in the year 2017-18 completed their assessments and were certified by the respective Skill Sector Councils. .

RapidValue Solutions is a leading provider of end-to-end mobility, omni-channel, IoT and cloud solutions to enterprises worldwide. They have offices at Kochi, Bangalore, and Mumbai in India, and their global offices are located in USA, UK, and Germany.

RapidValue Solutions conducted a campus recruitment drive in Vidya on 19 February 2019 targeted at the final year (2019 pass out batch) B Tech and MCA students. This opportunity was made possible due to the special efforts taken by Ms Aswathi M R (AP, CSE Dept). As many as seven students have been provided with placement offers. Congratulations!

SupportSages is a leading Kochi-based information technology infrastructure support company. They manage servers and networks for their customers. They carry out server monitoring, trouble shooting, software updates, sever migration and are also into web-hosting and customer support.

SupportSages conducted a campus recruitment drive in Vidya on 15 February 2019 to select candidates for filling positions as Junior Systems Administrator. The drive was targeted at the CSE, ECE, EEE and MCA students in the 2019 pass-out batches. Twenty six students have been shortlisted for the final interviews to be held at the company’s office at Kochi.

A team of three girl students of S6 B Tech (CSE B) batch – Shoukkiya Ashraf, Safana P B and Shabana P J – won the first prize, with a cash component of Rs 3000, in Hack the Night competition, the very first 24-hour women hackathon event conducted in North Malabar! The venue for the competition held on 2 – 3 February 2019 was Government College of Engineering, Kannur.

The hackathon was centered around building chatbots based on a given problem statement. The team from Vidya created a chatbot ‘ReGl_A’ which would assist the user on problems relating to menstruation. They implemented it aiming to change the approach of society towards menstruation.