Vol. 1 Issue: 2 An E-Tabloid from Mass Communication Department October 2014

Dr. Stephen Mavely is scheduled to feature on Skill Tree Education Evan-gelist of India on TIMES NOW in November 2014 making ADBU mem-ber of Higher Education Consortium with XIM, XLRI, Great Lakes, TISS and 38 other top 50 self-financed institutes in India. The Times Now television crew will be on campus mid-October for a two-day shoot in collaboration with Mass Communication Department. 400 students graduate in 7 MA and 2

B Tech programs First batch of DBU Global on-line education students conferred degrees The Governor of Assam and Visitor to Assam Don Bosco University Shri Janaki Ballav Patnaik presided over, 12 September, at the 3rd annual con-vocation along with the Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, and a galaxy of dignitaries from civil, church and aca-demic institutions in the city. Addressing the gathering of some 1,000 people, the Governor encour-aged stu-dents “take one step at a time and if you com-mit a mis-take, just learn from it and move on.” He told graduates, “believe that you can do anything you put your mind to. Nothing is impossible if you have the conviction in your dream to fulfill your goals and overcome the obstacles that may come your way.” The ADBU Chancellor and the Sale-sian Provincial of Guwahati Fr V.M. Thomas appealed to graduates say-ing, “use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice… then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thou-sands of people whom you have helped change their realities The Chancellor reminded graduates the words of Don Bosco whose birth bi-centenary will be celebrated in 2015 (16 August).

Don Bosco said, “We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside our-selves already: we have the power to imagine and do better.” Presenting a report of the academic year Vice Chancellor Dr Stephen Mavely announced the new Masters degree courses in Mass Communica-tion, Physics, and Electrical & Elec-tronics Engineering started this se-mester. He also congratulated the first batch of MA students in Human Rights

(Child Rights & Development), as well as the first batch of DBU Global, on-line program in distance

education. Degrees were conferred on 400 stu-dents of which 165 students received bachelor's degree in Engineering & Technology, 34 M.Tech, 50 MSW, 30 MCA, 36 MBA degrees, 4 MA in Psy-chological Counseling, 6 MA in Hu-man Rights and 2 Post Graduate Diploma in Human Rights. In the DBU Global on-line courses, 39 Post Graduate degrees of MBA, 6 MSc-IT and 28 MSW were conferred. Breaking away from the traditional university certification, ADBU this year introduced an additional one-page certificate giving a detailed and comprehensive picture of the candi-date’s performance, both academic as well as the skills that the student acquired and demonstrated during his/her stay at the University.

Prajyukttam, the 3-day annual Technofest started off with a morning Marathon run from Don Bosco Pan Bazaar to Don Bosco Maligaon, an 8.3 km distance, 18 September. Over 400 students participated at the event flagged off by Mr Universe 2009 Mr. Mahadev Deka, a body builder and an Engineer. Principal of DBCET Prof. Manoranjan Kalita spoke on the Marathon theme “Run for Techno - Entrepreneurship Development in North- East India.” Present at the event were ADBU Registrar and Administrator. Later in the morning, the official inau-guration of the Prajyukttam started with lighting of the ceremonial lamp by Ajay Chatiya the student President of Prajyukttam along with Registrar and Controller of Examinations. Eminent Assamese Entrepreneur Mr Agar Verma the Chief Guest at the programme encouraged students saying, “technology should be taken as an art.” Besides the regular 20 plus events at the annual fest spread over three days, this year marked the launch of Mass Communication Department with SmartFilm Competition on the theme “Campus Life.” There were 15 entries for the competition though only 11 groups managed to submit their video productions.

“We are surprised at the overwhelm-ing participation at the event where contestants had to shoot only with smart phone and edit with Free Open Source Software,” says HoD, Mass Communication, Fr C.M. Paul. Even though only five films qualified for the competition, all 11 films were screened and prices worth Rs.10,000 were distributed including a special prize for the film judged best by the audience. Incidentally, both the jury and audience decisions coincided. The 3-day event concluded with a 4-hour program which featured prize distribution laced with dance and musical performances capping the evening with a DJ Night. The students of B.Tech 7th Sem co-ordinated and managed the entire event under the leadership of Presi-dent & Lead Designer: Ajay Chetia, Vice President : Rituja Saikia, Treasurer : Himanshu B. Gohain, Assistant Treasurer : Tina Gogoi, Secretary : Debodipto Roy, Assistant Secretary : Janardan Laskar, C o n v e n o r : R i m i K o n w a r , Publicity : Biswajyoti Barman, Assistant Publicity: Nazbeen Sultana, Eve n t Man a ge r s : H i r anya Saikia, Swagat Barooa, Swaranga Jyoti Saikia & Alokesh Borua. 

3rd Convocation held colorfully

Ceremonial lamp lighting by the dignitaries at the Convocation

Four hundred students got bachelors and

masters degrees.

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Techno fest explodes talents

Third Journal Launched Bishop Thomas Menamparambil,SDB (Jowai Diocese) launched Journal of Development Practice, a peer re-viewed international journal of experi-ences from the field, at an august gathering of faculty members and students of social work, 25 Septem-ber 2014. In his message the Vice Chancellor of Assam Don Bosco University states, “conceived as a Journal that will rely on ‘experience’ as the base material for analysis, conclusions and as-sumptions for effective interventions in the field as well as grist for philoso-phising, we look forward to this Jour-nal becoming an authoritative voice for practitioners and thinkers alike.” “The journal aims at providing oppor-tunity to authors who would like to construct knowledge from the FIELD, and contribute towards generation of knowledge of Development Practice in an academic ambiance. Equally important is the accessibility of knowl-edge to all for free- thus the free access journal,” says journal editor Jacob Islary.

The journal claims to be free open access e-journal, an annual publica-tion with special issues on various themes of interdisciplinary in nature. Besides serious articles, the journal will have sections for views, book reviews, research summaries and field notes.

To promote “emerging academicians and scholars in the field of develop-ment practice’ the journal has devel-oped its own, easy to follow, citation and referencing style called ‘the JDP style of citation and referencing.” The first volume has 44 pages (A4 size divided into two columns) with six feature articles broadly covering themes of Public Health, Social Work Education, Methodological Dilemma in Social Research, and Homeless-ness.

In a span of just over a year, this is the third scientific and peer reviewed international journal, ADBU has brought out starting with Journal of Northeast Indian Cultures, and Jour-nal of Engineering Technology.

The 7-member ADBU Basketball Team defeated the hosts Dibrugarh University team at Auxesis 2014 Basketball Knockout tournament, held at Dibrugarh 19-22 September. A four day long annual techno-cultural cum management festival comprised of photography exhibition cum competi-tion, football and cricket matches, computer gaming com-petitions apart from workshops Auxesis, is a dynamic techno cultural cum management festival organized annually by Dibrugarh University. It aims at providing a platform to unveil talents THE WINNING TEAM 1. L. Chameikho (Captain) 2. Vismeyas Zimik (V. Captain) 3. Mansel R. Marak 4. Vizayie Thapo 5. Khrawbok Savio Marbaniang 6. Ponathung Humtsoe 7. Hirokjan Barman Faculty: Mr Alok Chowdury

Bosconians beat Dibrugarh University

ADBU Basket Ball Team

Convocation video at Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYl6PGP_5ws

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ADBU in big league

October 2014

Gold Medals under various catego-ries were awarded to 13 outstanding graduates both in the academic and co-curricular activities. The Chancel-lor's gold medal for standing first across the degrees and the Vice Chancellor's medal for outstanding contribution to campus life (both for Under graduates & Post graduates) were awarded to Gitimoni Talukdar, Achinta Sharma and Lijo George respectively. Every graduating participant at the convocation was honoured with a specially prepared scarf made to mark the occasion. With the introduction of research leading to the PhD degree in 2011, ADBU now has 166 research schol-ars in 17 disciplines under the guid-ance of 44 research guides. While 48.1 per cent of the faculty hold doc-toral degrees, 29.2% are actively pursuing doctoral research in various Indian and foreign universities with an output of 1.6 publications per faculty member. Three academic peer reviewed inter-national journals published in the last academic year include: Northeast Indian Cultures, Technology, and Development Practice. The ViC announced the University’s permanent campus at Tapesia with the first cluster of buildings and allied facilities including an academic com-plex to house four Social Science Departments with 2 student hostels, a food court and 55 staff quarters would be ready by June 2015.

The MoUs signed with the National Boards for Rubber, Tea, Cashew, Coconut and Spices will ensure dem-onstration farms and seed production centres as well as research avenues for pest resistance, hybridization, and mass multiplication through tissue-culture, and a training platform for social outreach programmes in 42 villages. The VC added, “The detailed Master Plan has ample provisions also for recreational and sports facilities, parks and quiet corners, cycle paths and jogging trails, a bio-diversity park, an amphitheatre, a convention centre, a school and a health centre, and a lake within the campus for the har-vesting of rainwater. A mini golf course, a wellness centre, and a mall, are other projects on the anvil at the 500 acre Tapesia tea garden cam-pus.” Ms. Pushpanjalee Konwar (M.Tech) and Mr. Achinta Sharma (B.Tech) recounted their valuable learning experience at the University in the valedictory address. Established in 2008 as the first State University of Assam in the private sector, ADBU is managed by Don Bosco Society which has 42 institutes of higher education as well as 123 institutes for Technical and Vocational Training in India. Spread out in 132 countries, Don Bosco Society worldwide imparts learning to some 15 million young people, especially belonging to the marginalized sections in society.

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The University Officials at the third Convocation panel

The ADBU Robotics Club organized Collision Grid 3.0 during Prajyuktam 2014. The competition consisted of making a robot move forward, back-ward, left, right and along with that the participants are asked to make the robot to grip and lift a certain object (in this event, the object was made of thermocol). The team which was able to perform the above mentioned tasks under a given time frame was declared the winner. Six teams participated in the compe-tition in which DBCET won first place while second place went to Assam Engineering College

Proud Winners of Collision Grid Robotics Competition

Nine 2-member teams participated at Geek arena (coding) a challenging computer game competition,19thSept. Each group was given two questions each and they had to solve the problem within one and half hour. The first prize went to Debodipto Roy & Joyanto Kumar Das from CSE 7th Semester. Debashis Barman & Francis Narzary from CSE 5th Semester got second prize while third prize went to Sikhar Kumar Bhuyan & Abhilash Singh from CSE 5th Semester. The coordinators of this game were- Joydeep Sonar & Tanmoy Bhadra

Geek’s Arena Coding for computer gaming competition

Hot topics for cool heads

ADBU 3rd Convocation held colorfully

As part of the Prajyukttam 2014 (Techno-fest) the Basic Science Club organized an extempore speech competition on September 18 at the ADBU Conference Hall at which 16 students participated. The hot topics for cool heads included: 100 days of Modi’s government, Importance of Mother Tongue, Role of Engineers in building up a pollution free world, Smart phones, Bicycles, Euthanasia: Good or bad, Floods in Guwahati, Politics and students

,Dress codes in colleges, Indian Cinema, Internet as a device for marriage, Human trafficking, Life without silicon, Capital punishment for rapists, and others. The judges of the event were Subra Mukherjee, Sonia and Jyoti Barman from DBCET. Sarbani Das, Sweta Kumari and Nabajit Deb bagged the first, second and third prizes respec-tively. Ms. Sneha Barjo (B.Tech 7th Sem.) coordinated the event

Google has selected ADBU’s B.Tech student startup company “10 on 10 Designs” to be one of those to whom they will pro-vide help to grow and launch in to the market. The one-year old company consisting of 3rd and 7th sem students which worked for the promo and branding of Prajyukttam 2014 will receive invitations to events hosted by Google, online trainings, resources, UX reviews, free product offerings and opportunities relevant for its startup. Plus, Google is offering us $500 (INR 30,000) in Cloud Platform Credits to get the company startup off the ground and into the market.

Google selects ADBU team startup company

Prajyukttam 2014 grand finale with DJ night at the Atrium

October 2014

Phangcho, could not express his heartfelt gratitude.

31st Dec. 2012 was a red letter day in Phangcho’s life.

“It was the first day of my job and the most remarkable day of my life as I am very happy with the new environ-ment as well as my new job,” he says.

He tried to do his duty following rules and regulations even working on Sunday.

“The first time I had to be on night duty, was a huge day for me. I kept my eyes open from 10 pm to 6pm. Some times I have morning duty from 6am to 2pm.,” Phangcho says. Phangcho says, “there are times when I have to do everything what is need to be done. It is more difficult especially when other staff go out or for holidays.”

“I want to devote my life entirely for Don Bosco University as I am now immensely enjoy my work,” says Phangcho hanging out with the other Security Staff.

Hosts win Technodash Marathon

Fr. Uttam, administrator of DB Tech Mali-gaon giving first prize to Hazel M.J.

DBCET Principal M. Kalita, giving away the

Smart Film turns crowd puller

Don Bosco College of Engineering and Technology (DBCET) launched Prajyuktam 2014 with a marathon run from Don Bosco School, Pan Bazaar to Don Bosco Tech, Maligaon. Principal of DBCET Manoranjan Ka-lita spoke on Marathon theme “Run for Techno - Entrepreneurship Devel-opment in North- East India.” Present at the event were ADBU Registrar and university Administrator. Mr. Mahadev Deka (Mr. Universe 2009, a body builder and an Engi-neer) inaugurated the run by waving a red colour flag. Some 400 college students took part in the run covering a distance of 8.3 kms.

Among the boys, the hosts, - Devku-mar Shiv, Lithrikyu and Mukhe from DB Tech Maligaon came 1st, 2nd and 3rd respectively. Among girls- Azel M. J., Marsila and Albina grabbed 1st, 2nd and 3rd positions. The winners of first three positions were given the cash award of 10,000, 8,000 and 6,000 Rupees each. Besides the winners, the first ten who successfully completed the run were also given the cash award of 500 rupees each. The prize share totalled Rs. 60,000.Mriganka Sarma, Biswajit Gayan and Partha Gogoi organised this marathon race.

Mass Communication Department’s first ever SmartFilm competition turned out to be a crowd puller, 19 September. A Prajyuktam 2014 event with the theme: Campus Life, the competition drew 15 teams. The film to be entirely shot only on smart phone and edited with open source software got 11 short films of about 4 min duration. Among the 11 participants 4 teams were from Mass Communication De-partment and 7 teams belonged to the Engineering department. Three judges evaluated the films along with an enthusiastic audience among

whom 100 could vote for the best film. The ‘Change’ grabbed the first prize, Three judges evaluated the films along with an enthusiastic audience among whom 100 could vote for the followed by ‘Bosconian - the Leg-end’ which got the second prize and the third prize went to ‘A Simple Story.’ ‘The Change’ won audience poll prize as well. Jacob Malkias and Aurelyne Khongriat of the Mass Communication department were anchors at the jam packed Confer-ence Hall screenings.

Village boy happy to serve university By Aurelyne Mary Khongriat

Guwahati -- Fredolin Phangcho, a young man of 20 years old from Karbi Anglong is one among many who is determined to work hard for his livelihood. He belongs to a family with eight members: mother, father, 4-brothers and 2- sisters. As a young man he wanted to defeat adverse circumstances but he could not.

He tried new ways in achieving something, but kept on failing over and over again.

The story of his life goes back to the time when he failed his Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC) examination in 2011.

“From morning till evening I used to roam around with my friends doing nothing worthwhile,” Phangcho recalls. “Sometimes I used to think loud, or talk to myself saying, ‘will my life be the same as it was, or do I need to change my life?’” Phangcho recalls. After one year, he received a good news from his friend about landing a job as a security Guard at ADBU.

Fredolin Phangcho, working as a Security in ADBU

No winners in robotics competition Cloud Computing Workshop held

The Department of Computer Sci-ence & Engineering and Informatics Technology organised a 1-day work-shop on Cloud Computing and IBM Bluemix. It was co-ordinated by Mr Vijay Prasad, on 25th September Mr Mani Madhurkar, Technical lead, at

IBM Pvt. Ltd was the chief resource person of the workshop. The participants included students of BTech CSE 5 & 7 semester, MCA 5 & 3 sem and M.Tech CSE 1 semester and faculty members. There were 120 participants for the workshop.

Civil Engineers plan 3BHK,at the MAD Cad competition

As part of Prajyukttam techno fest 2014, there was MAD Cad competi-tion held at Don Bosco College of Engineering & Technology for par-ticipants from DBCET as well as other colleges and institutions.

The MAD Cad competition consisted of drawing up a draft plan for a two-

storeyed (G+1) building to be con-structed in an area covering 2,000sq.ft.

The minimum accommodation to be provided by the planned apartment is that of 3BHK (3 bed rooms, 1 hall and 1 kitchen). The draft plan of the proposed building

had to include both ground floor. The weight age and elevation had to be accurate in dimension with func-tional planning. The participants were given 2 hours for designing the planned apartment using Auto Cad.

Four teams of 16 students including NITS Mirza and 3 from DBCET Azara took part in the D’OS BOT (Robotics) robot building competition held on 20th September. The participants were from NITS, Mirza: Manash Kumar Das,Pipjyoti Kal i ta , Jayanta Kal i ta, f rom DBCET,Azara 1: Manish Nath, Bumi Trueman Doley, Shaheen Wahab, DBCET Azara 2: Davis Daimari, Jerin Jose George, Richard Ankur, and DBCET Azara 3: Saurav Konwar, C h i r a n j e e v B u r a g o h a n i , Salfa Debbarma. The competition consisted of on the spot robot building. Wherein the par-ticipants were to make a robot out of the components supplied by the organizers. As there were no winners for this particular event, the partici-pants received consolation prizes. The participants and onlookers at robotics competition 2014

UP COMING EVENTS NAC visit – 7-member National Accreditation Council will make their first visit to assess and certify ADBU, 27-30 October 2014.

A 14-member delegation consisting of Mass Comm students and faculty will attend International Conference on “Media’s Role in Facilitating Peace in Conflict Situation in Northeast India and Neighbouring Countries" at Rajiv Gandhi Univer-sity,Itanagar, from 9-10 October 2014.

Organizing committee of SmartFilm Competition 2014

October 2014

Prajyukttam 2014 Electrical and Elec-tronics Club conducted Circuit Debug-ging on 19th of September. Circuit Debugging is all about giving wrong circuits to the participants with know-able errors and the participants have to identify & rectify them.

The organisers of this pro-gramme say, “The main motive of this programme is to identify the techni-cal knowledge of the young minds and to show case them to the public.”This programme was

Web designing club conducted Web D Page on 20th September. This is about identifying and rectifying the errors on a web page within an allotted time. The organisers say, “This programme aims at exploring the talents of the young students.”

conducted in t wo phases, first there was questioners then there was prac-tical section in the lab.

16 teams, each consisting of two members participated in the event.

While Nabojeet Deb & Dipakar Acharjee of B. Tech 7th Semester,’ got first prize, Shantanu Nath & Ritul Gogi of B. Tech 7th Semester got second and Reza Masoon & Shahju-bin Rahman of B. Tech 7th Semester grabbed third position.

Six teams, each consisting of two members participated in this pro-gramme. Sonnet and Sarath (MCA),’ got first prize. Debashish and Francis (B.Tech) 5th Semester got second prize for her presentation on ‘High Voltage DC Transmission.’

Rodney Borneo

The students of Masters in Psychol-ogy (Psychological Counselling), ADBU, observed World Suicide Pre-vention Day in the University through a special morning assembly for the entire university and later by an en-grossing street play.

The play titled “Who Commits Sui-cide?” was performed for the students of the Engineering department, and a second performance for the School of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Included in the audience were the Vice-Chancellor of the University Dr. Stephen Mavely SDB, the Pro Vice-Chancellor, the Registrar, the Director of The School of Humanities and Social Sciences and many members of the faculty.

The primary aim of the performance was to bring awareness about the reality of suicide.

Through the play various issues and facts relating to the large-scale preva-lence of suicide in India, especially among teen and young adults, were highlighted.

Many were surprised when informed by the actors that approximately 17 persons commit suicide every hour in our country.

It was even more shocking that the latest figures put the annual reported cases of death by suicide in India to be two and a half lakhs.

World Health Organization has termed India as the ‘Suicide Capital’ of the world!

The play depicted four possible sce-narios, from among many, that could lead to suicide, namely:

(i) Excessive parental pressure for academic performance

(ii) Failed romantic relationships

(iii) Ragging or peer rejection

(iv) Suicide by farmers

It also depicted the positive effect of psychological counseling on people who are depressed and could be in

the danger zone. Many of us react to news of suicide with a shrug that conveys ‘this kind of stuff happens to others not to me’.

While an investigation into the exact stress or pressure factors that trigger

a person to end her or his life may be a relevant study, it is of greater impor-tance to be aware that there could be someone in our homes, our class, our office or our immediate environment that is on the brink of utter hopeless-ness. Someone near us could be looking around desperately for one caring glance, one understanding smile, one

accepting voice or one generous shoulder.

Could it be that while running in the desperate race called ‘success-at-any -cost’ we are being unmindful of the

silent cry of these fellow humans whose only wish is to find meaning in their lives?

The message that clearly reached the audience was, “our indifference does translate into the loss of another life. But our awareness and kindly atti-tude, while costing us nothing, will make the difference between life and death for someone, somewhere.”

Circuit Debugging with Prajyukttam 2014

Cracking the cracks with Web D Page

Student of MPC alert on suicide prevention at ADBU WHO has termed India ‘Suicide Capital’ of the world!

Social Media for Social Work: MSW students get trained in citizen journalism

The ADBU Students of Social Work (3rd sem) had a 5-day “Social Media for Social Work” workshop, 15-19 September. “It is a matter of pride that our students got the op-portunity to be trained in social media skills as no other top social sciences institutions in the country has mandatory social media skill training in their curriculum,” says Dr. Riju Sharma Head of Social Work Department. A group of 50 students worked in 12 teams on social issues like clogged sewage, open drains, educa-tional stress, social networking addiction on campus, street children, homelessness, and child labour. The course facilitated by Mass Communication de-partment was hands on training to create content for various social media platforms like Blog, YouTube, and Radio.

“We are following the principles of Backpack Journalism but ap-plying it to grassroots level social activists who have no access to professional equipment. The trainer's challenge/opportunity is to tap student's social media application skills exhibited in the use of smart phones for shooting and recording, and laptops for edit-ing,” says Fr. C.M. Paul, Head of Mass Communication Department. Revealing the workshop mood, Fr. Paul adds “We stretched the students and their laptop computers to the extreme limits… luck-ily Video Pad software did not crash, though team sprit sagged with the stress caused by deadlines, the students kept going spurred on by the competition between 12 teams.” The Registrar Dr. Basil Koikara spent two hours training the group in audio editing with Audacity software and Videopad for video editing. Faculty members Mrs. Machun Kamei and Mr Kaushik Bhuyan followed up the radio and video productions. “We enjoyed working in groups and it was great joy to see our articles and photographs created during the workshop on the MSW department blog www.adbusw.wordpress.com,” says Tomy Joseph.

John Poji from Nagaland says, “the process of creat-ing the four minute radio program for Podcast and four minute YouTube film on our campaign topic was more exciting.” The workshop concluded with group presentations, and conferring of certifi-cates, 19 September.

ADBU’s 3rd International Journal launch

October 2014

Convocation Highlights 2014

October 2014

Prajyukttam 2014 event on Basic Science (Let's Talk Science) was held on 19th September. The DBCET Basic Science Club said they wanted the event, “encourage the new talks on eco-friendly tech-nology and plan for a bright future using renew-able energy.”

The organis-ers of SCI-ENTIA say, “join us and let’s talk what ideas y o u ’ v e got.Our ulte-rior motive is t o g a i n know ledge and finding the truth.

So allow your brain to flow with ideas. Showcase your skills and unlock the hidden "EINSTEIN" in-side you”.

Let’s Talk Science at Technofest

that has influenced human life. 'The event judges included Prof. Girija T. R. HoD Civil Engineering, and lectur-ers Jhimly Kumar Das and Johnson. Aansu Giri, EEE 3 and Munmi Thaku-ria, CSE 3 who presented ‘Bio-battery,’ got first prize. Swapna Bhuyan EEE 7th Semester got second

prize for her presentation on ‘High voltage DC Transmission.’“A Concise Study of OLED Organic Light Emitting Diode,” Ashok Gogoi and Arindam Majumdar grabbed the third position.

Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) Prajyuktam the Techno fest con-ducted the game Crime Scene Inves-tigation as the breaking and enter-t a i n i n g event. Twenty five groups consisted of two members each participated in the game held on 20th September. Crime Scene Investigation is a hidden object game. The target is to find out the murder with clues that are

collected from differ-ent places which will connect the participant one after another clues to capture the goal. AlakeshBaruh CVE 7th Semester and BisvajithGayan ECE 7 t h S e m e s t e r

grabbed the lone prize for the event. Sukanya and Surabhy coordinated the event displayed photographs of different places in the campus for participants to collect their clues to arrive at the final destination.

Prajyuktam Techno-fest 2014 Inauguration

Flash Mob Rocks Prajyuktam 2014

The organizers of Prajyukttam 2014 organized a flash mob dance in the evening on 19th September. Three groups of dancers took the floor to the sound of blaring dance music bringing much cheer. The organizers said, the purpose of Flash “Mob was to make

people more enthusiastic as all other programs were technical and stu-dents could get bored.”Pallabi Das, Mriganka Sarma, Runjan Das and Nazbeen Sultana organized the half hour program.

The inauguration of the Prajyukttam 3-day Technofest started with lighting of the ceremonial lamp by Ajay Chatiya the student President of

taken as an art.” He even added, “technology leads to leisure impacts and limitations.” A group of DBCET students presented a group song. S. Mohanta B.E in Mechanical Directo-ries was felicitated with ADBU me-mento. Mr Mohanta says, “Impossible is po-tential and convert it into possible.” In his talk on entrepreneurship he said, “leadership and entrepreneurship is the key to success in starting and exploring ideas.”

Dr.Manoranjan Kalita, principal of DBCET gave a speech encouraging students to take active part in Pra-jyukttam and declared the festival open.

Prajyukttam along with Dr Francis Fernandez and Dr. Basil. Mr Agar Vermathe Chief Guest of the pro-gramme said, “technology should be

Prajyuktam 2014 Treasure Hunt Draws Huge Participation 3 contests with 8 faculty, 120 students and 12 externs

Among the 24 events held in Pra-jyuktam 2014, treasure hunt had three separate contests for faculty, students and externs. Four teams consisting of two faculty members each participated, 60 teams of stu-dents, and six teams of externs joined Treasure Hunt competition coordinated by Sukanya Bhattachar-jya & Surbhi Borah, 19 September. Each team jostled with each other

egged on by cheering students to find hidden articles from bizarre locations using a series of given clues.“It was so adventurous and the end of the game many we were so tired,” said one of the girls.Mr Bikash Agarwal & Mr Mriganka Gogoi stood first while Madam Pushpanjali Kon-war & Rashmita Barua came sec-ond. But Khanindra Kalita from CVE

5th Sem. and Barnam Parashar from ECE 5th Sem. were not tired when they snatched first prize. Meanwhile there were also many other teams trailing the winners inch by inch mak-ing Biswajit Gayan and Udipta Kalita from ECE 7th sem. get the runners up.The winners among the externs

were Byed Denish and Andrew Craig. B Tech. ECE 7th sem. students, Su-kanya Bhattacharjya & Surbhi Borah, coordinated the treasure hunt.

Guwahati University Bags BosQiuz 2014 Prize

The second day of Prajyukttam 2014, began with BosQuiz on 19th Septem-ber at ADBU atrium with 37 teams (24 from DBCET and 7 from outside) participating. The guest teams in-cluded Assam Engineering College - Jalukbari, three from Nalbari College, and one each from Royal Group of Institutes – Bettuchi, Balcoaah col-lege, SSA College – Dispur, N.H. College, and Guwahati University.The quizmaster was an experienced and well known person of Guwahati. Mr. Maharnav Gogoi, the co-founder of Q-Factor Knowledge Solutions was the quiz master..

The qualifying round consisted of a set of 20 questions and the top six teams were selected for the finals. The questions were of Science, history and GK. Later on from the six qualified teams the three winners were selected according to their performance. The first prize was awarded to Kumar Shivam and Jyotish Kalita from Guwahati Univer-sity, the second went to Biswajit from Nalbari college, and Sudarshan Darsha from SSA College Dispur. The third prize was awarded to Sumit Das from Assam Engineering College and Rishab Dewan from

Indian School of Mines, Jharkand. The organizers of this quiz were Swapna Bhuyan and Ishanu Dutta from ECE 7th Sem. of DBECT.

October 2014

ADBU MEDIA IN ACTION

Launch of the SmartFilm

October 2014

Photo Credit Prajyukttam 2014