Author: External Communications

IIT Roorkee organises west zone alumni outreach activity at IIT Gandhinagar to celebrate 175 years of establishment

IIT Roorkee organises west zone alumni outreach activity at IIT Gandhinagar to celebrate 175 years of establishment

Mar 28, 2022 |

STORY CREDITS Writer/Editor: Shivangi Vasudev Bhatt Photo: Media and Communication, IIT Gandhinagar As a part of the year-long celebration to mark 175 years (1847-2022) of establishment, the Indian Institute of Roorkee (IIT Roorkee) organised an alumni outreach event at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) on March 27, 2022. For the first time, IIT Roorkee is conducting zonal outreach activities, viz., Ahmedabad (West), Kolkata (East), Delhi NCR (North), and Bengaluru/Hyderabad (South) to facilitate alumni meets in an attempt to reach out to all alumni and celebrate their achievements and bolster the common bonding. The event at IITGN was graced by...

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Havi, a robotic toys start-up from IITGN Research Park, gets selected for the prestigious Stanford Seed programme

Havi, a robotic toys start-up from IITGN Research Park, gets selected for the prestigious Stanford Seed programme

Mar 15, 2022 |

STORY CREDITS Writer/Editor: Shivangi Vasudev Bhatt Photo: Media and Communication, IIT Gandhinagar Only around 90 start-ups from across the globe get an opportunity to be part of the programme by Stanford Graduate School of Business every year. Havi, a consumer electronics and robotics company from Bhavnagar, Gujarat, with its research centre at IIT Gandhinagar Research Park, is selected for the prestigious Stanford Seed programme for the current year. Only about 90 start-ups from across the globe get an opportunity to be part of this programme by Stanford Graduate School of Business (Stanford GSB) every year, and Havi is one of the...

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IITGN organised the sixth edition of Disha Cup – a unique cricket and volleyball tournament for the support staff

IITGN organised the sixth edition of Disha Cup – a unique cricket and volleyball tournament for the support staff

Mar 14, 2022 |

STORY CREDITS Writer/Editor: Shivangi Vasudev Bhatt Photo: Media and Communication, IIT Gandhinagar The sports fields of IITGN were all charged up with team spirit over the weekend as the Institute organised the sixth edition of Disha Cup, the annual cricket tournament for its outsourced workforce, from March 11 to 13, 2022. Looking at the enthusiastic participation by the support staff year after year, this time, the Institute also introduced a volleyball tournament to the event. The opening ceremony was held in the presence of Prof D P Roy, a Senior Visiting Faculty at IITGN. A total of 220 support staff of...

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CCL-IITGN starts ‘Curiosity’ programme with SSA-UP to empower nearly 75,000 girl students of KGBV with experiential STEM education

CCL-IITGN starts ‘Curiosity’ programme with SSA-UP to empower nearly 75,000 girl students of KGBV with experiential STEM education

Mar 9, 2022 |

STORY CREDITS Writer/Editor: Shivangi Vasudev Bhatt Photo: Media and Communication, IIT Gandhinagar The online programme, which reaches 746 Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (KGBV) schools of Uttar Pradesh, aims to improve science education by widening the horizon for students as well as teachers beyond the textbooks and curriculum. In yet another effort to encourage girl students to pursue Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), the Centre for Creative Learning (CCL) at IITGN, in collaboration with Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), Government of Uttar Pradesh (UP), has started a specially designed programme called ‘Curiosity’, for 746 Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (KGBV) schools of Uttar Pradesh. It is...

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IITGN organises a week-long Science Awareness Programme with scientific demonstrations for school students

IITGN organises a week-long Science Awareness Programme with scientific demonstrations for school students

Feb 22, 2022 |

STORY CREDITS Writer/Editor: Shivangi Vasudev Bhatt Photo: Media and Communication, IIT Gandhinagar More than 800 school students of classes 11 th and 12 th from the Ahmedabad/Gandhinagar region are going to participate in the Science Awareness Week on the IITGN campus. IITGN commenced a week-long Science Awareness Programme on its campus today for school students of classes 11th and 12th (Science stream). More than 800 school students and teachers from the Ahmedabad/Gandhinagar region are going to participate in the Science Awareness Week activities that will go on from morning 8 am to 2 pm until February 25, 2022. The event is...

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