Student Activities at NIT Hamirpur
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The annual cultural festival, Hill'ffair 2007 was celebrated from 2nd
to 4th November 2007. Sh. Ashwani Kumar, Director General of Police, (HP), was
the chief guest of the Inaugural Function. Over and above students from NIT
Hamirpur, students from other professional Institutions also attended the
festival. The total number of delegates from six outside Institutions was
about 100. The festival was co-sponsored by AIRTEL. Other supporters for the
programmes were the builders and construction agencies. On the first evening
a musical night was presented by the Music club in which many songs were
performed by the students of NIT. The Dance Club organized competitions of
folk dance, western dance. The dramatics club organized events of play, skits,
choreography, spoof etc. The fine arts club held many events of painting,
sketching, rock painting, face painting. Debates, group discussions, Kavi
sammelan, quiz and such competitive events were organized by English and Hindi
Club. A professional rock band “Hellbound' from Delhi performed on the second
night. This was first occasion when a professional group performed in our
cultural festival and it was greatly appreciated and enjoyed by the audience.
Mr. Abhinav Pradhan and Miss Itika Gupta were selected as the Mr. and Miss
Hill'ffair 2007 respectively. The Director NIT Hamirpur, Prof. I.K.Bhat, was
the Chief Guest of the concluding evening and distributed the prizes. Our
alumnus, Sh. Om Prakash Minhas, Director Vigilance, DOT, Shimla was the guest
of honour on this occasion. Mr. Shishir Goel, Student secretary Cultural Club
and his team members' efforts in successfully organizing the festival was
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GLUG-NITH has
celebrated “Software Freedom Day 07” in NIT Hamirpur on 15th September,
2007. Software Freedom Day is a global, grassroots effort to educate the
public about the importance of software freedom and the virtues and
availability of Free and Open Source Software. Local teams from all over the
world organize events on the third Saturday in September. The most recent
event involved over 200 teams from all over the world. The GLUG-NITH team
consisting of 12 students conducted two workshops in Python and GCC and
followed it up with programming contests in the same. An introductory session
to working in Linux preceded this for the benefit of the newcomers. “a.out”
was another programming event that was held in the month of October. It was
sponsored entirely by Glug members of the 2003-2006 batch.
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SPEC, E&CED
organized a soldering workshop for students of NIT Hamirpur on 16-17 Oct 2007.
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A two days Workshop
on Model Making was organized by the Deptt. of Architecture on 23rd -24th
Sept. 2007. Ar Harminder Singh, Practicising Architect and a professional
model maker from Chandigarh was invited as an expert. The students made the
various models of the ongoing building projects. |
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A Joint studio exchange
programme in the subject of Building Construction and Architectural design
for the first year students was conducted w.e.f. 16th-20th October, 2007 in
the Deptt. of Architecture at NIT, Hamirpur. In this programme about 40
students from Vastukala Academy, New Delhi participated. The faculty
accompanied with the students was Prof. Anurag Roy Dean Vastu Kala Academy.
The joint venture was coordinated by Ar. I. P Singh and Ar. Minakshi Jain at
NIT Hamirpur. |
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An industrial visit
to Rail coach factory, Kapurthala for the third year Mechanical
Engineering students was organized in the month of October 2007. Sh. Varun and
Sh. Sidhartha accompanied the students for the visit.
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NIT Hamirpur Celebrated
the Ganesh Chaturthi on September 20th to 23rd 2007. Director,
Registrar, Faculty members with their families and Students from all the year
were present for the Ganesh Pooja which was held in Dhauladhar Boys Hostel.
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All the Departments of
Institute organized Freshers Day to welcome first year students of 2007
batch. This event was organized by the technical societies of the various
Departments. |
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Rajiv Gandhi Akshay
Urja Diwas was celebrated in NIT Hamirpur on 26th August, 2007. Quiz and
debate competition organized on this occasion and prizes are distributed to
the winners. |
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