Placements 2011-12 – Phase 1 analysis
Welcome back dear reader, and a happy new year to you. As another spring semester begins, we at The Scholars’ Avenue focus on two important events from last month – the first round of campus placements and the inter-IIT sports meet. Both saw intense competition among students, were critical to the Institute’s reputation, and saw [...]
Snapshots from the Alumni Meet
Thursday, January 26, 2012
January in Kharagpur is traditionally spanned by an assortment of events. This year, the new semester kicked off with warm days, an Inter-IIT hangover, placement worries, and more importantly, the 9th Alumni Meet. Here’s a rundown on the last. The Inaugural Ceremony Kharagpur saw the inauguration of the 9th Alumni Meet on 7th January at Kalidas Auditorium. [...]
NPTEL finds its feet
Friday, January 13, 2012
The NPTEL project began in 1999-2003 with suggestions from Carnegie-Mellon University. The aim was to address the discrepancy in standards of teaching in engineering colleges across India. In a number of colleges, the qualifications of educators is not high enough to appropriately deal with the syllabus. Such faculty can be trained by exposure to online [...]
Playdom : Code Overload
Thursday, November 10, 2011
One of the largest game providers on the social networking arena, Playdom comes to KGP tomorrow. This prominent game developer is organizing a unique coding competition open to students of CS and ECE departments to be held online on 11th November, 2011. ‘Code Overload’, as it is called, promises to be a real test of [...]
The Not So Amusing Tamasha
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Hats off to the white, gleaming Lal Battis for loyally and flawlessly performing their duties in what can be called as one of the most hectic and, to put it mildly, bizarre periods for South Block. The ludicrousness started with a seventy-four year old ex-army personnel deciding one day to give up eating. And interestingly, neither he nor the [...]
The Scholsave Internship Blog
Thursday, August 18, 2011
The Scholars' Avenue presents its Internship Blog : internships.scholarsavenue.org
The Other Guy
Fri, Jan 27, 2012
I slam the door as I leave for the afternoon class and wonder whether that would wake him up. Then I realize that it doesn’t make much of a difference whether he is asleep or not because he is either shallowing in a dream or in [...]
Happy Indie-pendence Day
Thu, Jan 26, 2012
KGP has no dearth of gamers but the franchises which they endorse are usually limited to the popular ones like Electronic Arts, Ubisoft and Rockstar Games. Away from the spotlight, the glitz and the glamour hogged by mainstream game production houses lies a surprisingly rich world of games brought to life by independent game developers. [...]
Indian Case Challenge 2012
Tue, Jan 24, 2012
Genese-de-Strategie, the Business Strategy and Consulting Club of IIT Kharagpur, had recently organized Indian Case Challenge 2012 – the largest Indian case study competition of its kind. For the uninitiated, such a competition requires participants to form 3-4 member teams and create case studies, which are records of research pertaining to the development of something [...]
Career Launcher Registrations – January 20, 2012
Thu, Jan 19, 2012
Career Launcher will be holding registrations for their Online CAT Test Series on January 20 (Friday) from 3PM to 5PM. The venue is Vegies. Features:- 29+ All India Mock CATs 100 hours of online video classes on fundamentals Access online topic-wise and section-wise online tests in Test Gym Free GD and PI classes for IIM call-getters Special [...]
IIT Kgp triumphs in Earthian
Fri, Jan 13, 2012
IIT Kharagpur had another reason to be proud as Angam Parashar and Manan Shah, two students of the department of Mechanical Engineering, presented the winning entry in Earthian, a sustainability competition organized by Wipro. The Research for their paper on impact Analysis of distributed generation and RE based distributed generation on Indian economy of Bop [...]
Earth Science PhD research as part of the Closing Tethys Project
Wed, Nov 30, 2011
The Closing Tethys Project at the Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University (ANU) seeks two high-achieving students to enrol as PhD candidates. The students selected would gain expertise in computational structural geology, geodesy and geophysics and 4D tectonic reconstruction. The applicants should be highly motivated with the desire and capacity to undertake both [...]
Summer Research Fellowship Programme 2012
Mon, Nov 28, 2011
The three national Science Academies of the country (Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore; Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi and The National Academy of Sciences, India, Allahabad) offer several two-month Summer Fellowships to enable students/teachers to work with eminent scientists of the country during 2012. The announcement inviting applications along with the application format and [...]
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Inter IIT Volleyball(Girls)
KGP beats IND by 2-0 on Day 2
Inter IIT Volleyball(Boys)
KGP beats ROP by 3-0 in their second match of the tournament
Table Tennis
DLH beats KGP by 3-0 in Boys Table Tennis
Inter IIT Cricket
KGP after 20 overs 143/9(O:20), GUW:125
Inter IIT Basketball
Kharagpur takes on Bhubaneshwar on Day 2
Inter IIT Badminton
KGP beats DLH by 3-0 in Boys Badminton on Day 2
Inter IIT Football
Kharagpur beats Ropar 6-0 on Day 2
Inter IIT Hockey
Kharagpur tie with Delhi on Day 2
- Read our January 16th issue here(in PDF format)
- Placements Analysis. The Alumni Meet. The World of Independent Games. And why you should tie a lungi today!
- The Scholars' Avenue brings to you our first issue of 2012.
January 16th 2012 Issue
- Placements 2011-12 – Phase 1 analysis
- Snapshots from the Alumni Meet
- NPTEL finds its feet
- Playdom : Code Overload
- The Not So Amusing Tamasha
- The Scholsave Internship Blog
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