Experience of Fest as a FootPrints Volunteer for 3 days
By Team FootPrints
Fests are engaging, challenging, and everything fun. Aren’t
they?
One of the largest technical events in Gujarat was held at
our college between March 4th and March 6th, 2022, at the Faculty of Technology
and Engineering of the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Gujarat.
In order to bring together students from colleges across
the country in a healthy competition, FootPrints was started.
FootPrints is a three-day-long, national-level technical
event which our college has been organizing for the last 21 years.
Tech fest is a pride of a college as it defines the popularity
of it.
The event has a large participant base. Through this fest,
we offer a wide spectrum of opportunities to students to give them a chance to
exhibit their talent while igniting young minds under one roof with an exchange
of ideas, views, and the spirit of competitiveness.
As a part of the organizing team, the most special moments
lie within the days when the event actually occurs. It is an emotion for us and
an expression of euphoria.
"FOOTPRINTS", the name itself, says a lot. The
fest indirectly leaves a memory (print) inside everyone’s heart with its
emotions that can’t be delivered in words.
Everything looks impossible until it is done.
As a volunteer, the most pretentious part was seeing the
crowd gathered during those three days, which made all the work behind the
scenes worthwhile.
DAY 0
The day felt endless; most of the execution parts were
involved on that day. Duty allotment for day 1, we used to power nap during
work to pay full attention during the night-time. Still the most memorable day.
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| Day 0 Preparation |
JOURNEY OF 3 DAYS, BUT MEMORIES FOR A LIFETIME.....
DAY 1
The first day at fest gives a special appearance in
everybody’s eyes; the excitement of exploring, meeting young minds and having a
blast with their teammates; the reaction of participants says it all. These
gave me Goosebumps, really!!
It’s the student who makes a college event come to life.
Many people came that day with the hope of learning and proving themselves.
Some have their own level of confidence to win. We can see it in their eyes. Our
interaction with the participants starts from the registration desk by handing
them over the schedule of events, college map, opening ceremony, and a graceful
western dance academy performance at the beginning.
The Fest included everything that a student could ever wish
for; it had the technical part for exploring their theoretical knowledge in
practical application, a fun part for mind refreshment, and jumped all over the
day for creating memories.
Everything looks easy when you have the back of your team.
Let’s dive deep into technical events.
In computer engineering events, participants get a chance
to enhance their coding skills. Also, debugging events were there. In the
fields of mechanical and metallurgy engineering, IC engine car racing, X-bow
competition, hydraulic gripping arm with lifting the object in the shortest
time possible...
And how can one forget the RC car racing, robot wars, and
autonomous robots of the electrical and electronics department?
Tremors truss to sustain load, paper presentation event,
and civIQ for testing your knowledge all took place in the field of Civil
Engineering.
Chemical engineering events include chemo hustle for car
racing propelled by chemicals and paper presentations. Aesthetes, believe me,
loved it.
If you think good design is expensive, you should look at
the cost of a bad design.
Textile department events – broken floats which includes
weaving fabrics using handloom denotes traditional values, tie and dye , block
printing ..
Envirosavy events were also there, which included
environmental and sustainability ideas to test their knowledge with innovative
examples.
Open x—It’s an open segment, an open hardware and software
project exhibition where projects with new perceptions were welcomed and the
project ideas we saw that day just blew my mind. What a great addition to the
student and innovation field.
There was no field barrier; even pharmacy department
students attended the technical workshops. This proves that learning has no
boundaries.
All these technical events fall under major segments known
as Technotron..
Technical events look cool when they happen in one frame.
Jampad , a home for soulful artists , an open mic , which
provides a platform to showcase your hidden talent that could be anything like
stand up comedy, story telling , dance , it also helps to bring out stage fear.
Time flew and the participants, who were totally unaware of
each other, got the chance to interact, most of the time as opponents. It’s our
belief that the fest should be there for all the students across the country,
so every student can explore their college days with a blast of memories.
The non-technical section is where the fun begins....
Treasure hunt, escape room, tug of war, event based on
driving a go-karting vehicle.
Guest lectures with live interaction, workshops, and texhibition (exhibition of technical things) are part of the Kaleidoscope segment. The workshop provides newly derived concepts of money making (NFT), learning how e-bikes work, and cloud computing for data security (AWS).
Money is what you invest, price is what you pay, value is
what you get, profit is what you make. “FootPrints Stock Exchange” for enhancing stockbroking skills.
Virtuosity for gaming zones like BGMI,F1 simulation.
Day-1 ends with informals such as BMX, bike stunts,
beatboxing, and, of course, with lots of fun and dance.
DAY 2
The second day included mainly the second round of events.
The ones who cleared the first round were there to participate, but all the
participants were now familiar with each other. A strong connection was built
to last for a long time. A crisp was built up between the participants as a
hunger to win the competition.
The fest of the college provided students of all
departments an opportunity to showcase their creativity and dedication to
extracurricular pursuits and create a memorable day in their student life.
Volunteering at the events was as much fun as participating
in them. The feeling of the gesture given by the students of different colleges
was the best part.
Day 2 was much easier to execute because all the
participants were already familiar with the college campus and the environment
in which they could enjoy it. Refreshments were also available the whole time.
Extravagant decorations with an environmental theme made
the college walls come alive, and most importantly, many fun-driven events
added a flavour.
On day 2, guest lectures by Nikhil Taneja Sir and Pawan
Aggarwal Sir were extremely inspiring.
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| Team FootPrints With Dr.Pawan Aggarwal |
Classroom learning leaves an impression for a few days, but
attending a technical festival makes learning much easier and lasts a long time
in the memory.
The Pitchers' Project was a segment for start-up ideas,
which was newly introduced in our edition. For day 2 enjoyment, we had bike
stunts, live sketching, Aditi Yangar, and a band.
The lighting of our dome at night gave us the impression of
being in heaven, and the ring of our event at the center of the college dome,
which can be seen from afar, also makes the entire area around the college
visible to it.
DAY 3
The successful execution of the first 2 days made everything
easier in many ways.
As the event came to its last day, the feeling to work hard
to make the event a grand success came to our mind, thanks to the entire team.
The one who trained us to handle all the situations either on the field or off
the field. The previous year event’s footage inspired us for the journey.
Back to Day 3,
The closing ceremony was a major part of it, followed by prize
distribution. The warm feedback from the participants at the end of it to one
of our team members, who was there at the propagation time at their college, gave
a kind of special feeling.
The concert left the best ending in everyone’s hearts.
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| Concert Of Jasleen Royal |
The rolling square segment definitely held the cherry on
the top for our event.
The Jasleen royal concert. The day when the concert artist gave
us confirmation, was the best day of the entire journey of the event. The
artist admitted that the Ranjha song gave her goosebumps. There was an amazing feeling
rushing through the crowd. Everyone present in that moment was experiencing the
emotion of excitement and joy. Everyone was fascinated by the presence of such
a popular celebrity on the stage.
The event was a blast !
The event ends by sharing of everyone’s personal
experiences.
Talking about the journey after it’s success is so
relieving . Can’t imagine a better college life than this.
I feel very lucky to work under an events which already has a huge legacy .
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