National Leadership Foundation in collaboration with IIM Kozhikode announces a Youth Leadership Summit.National Leadership Foundation (NLF) founded in 2009 is co-led by students, faculty and alumni of IITs and IIMs and top professional schools of India. NLF is working towards the growth and development of leadership potential amongst the talented youth in India, and is organizing a leadership discovery summit from July 16-18, 2010 in Kozhikode (Calicut), Kerela. The rejuvenating three day workshop is aimed at providing a platform for motivated youngsters in India to:

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The PK Sinha Center for Bioenergy at Indian Institute of Technology – Kharagpur was set up on August 31, 2009 through the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding by the Director, IIT-Kharagpur, and Dr. Prabhakant Sinha, Founder and Co-Chairman of ZS Associates. Dr. Sinha, who is an alumnus of IIT-Kharagpur and has taught at Kellog School of Management, is seed-funding the PK Sinha Center for Bioenergy with 10 crore rupees (2 million USD). This multidisciplinary center – which aspires to be the nation’s leading ce nter for Bioenergy research – comprises of faculty and scientists from IIT-Kharagpur’s existing departments such as Agriculture & Food Engineering, Biotechnology, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Science & Engineering, Geology & Geophysics, Intellectual Property Law School, Mechanical Engineering and Physics.

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Playdom, Inc. is a leading social gaming company based in Mountain View, California. We are committed to delivering the best possible player experience to more than 26 million monthly active users of our games on Facebook, MySpace and iPhone.

Fueled by explosive growth of our games on Facebook and an expanding pipeline of new games and features, we may be the fastest growing social gaming company on the planet. How do we do it? We’re obsessed with one thing: our players. Playdom has now started operations in Bangalore, India. The Bangalore office is an independent game studio where we hope to attract some of the smartest people in the country who believe in the future of social gaming.

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As part of the UC Berkeley-IIT Kharagpur collaboration, applications are invited for an 8-weeks summer research program at UC Berkeley. Please submit your information by Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010. Students will be selected by Friday, Feb. 19. Additional information will be shared with selected students after that.

You will be pleased to note that a larger number of departments are now part of the program — biotechnology, chemistry, chemical engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, geology/geophysics, mechanical engineering, math and statistics. If students in the food and agricultural engineering have molecular biology/biochemistry expertise then would also be eligible.

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AIESEC IITKGP, is offering limited internships in Malaysia and South East Asia Starting December. The Internship involves working with NGO’s, Schools and IT Companies for 6 weeks. Food and Accommodation is provided. Flight Cost is Rs 6k . To and fro (to Malaysia)

Deadline : Midnight 28th October.
Contact: Sancheti Ninad sanchetininad@gmail.com 9735509939; Nitin Babel nitin452@gmail.com 9775193472

Applications are being invited for The 2010 Google India Women in Engineering Award between 15 Septemeber and 31 October, 2009. Awardees, who will be required to be students of Computer Science or related fields, will receive a cash prize of INR 100000.  Details can be obtained from http://www.google.co.in/jobs/womeninengineering/2010/index.html

Attention: First year Integrated MSc. Physics, Chemistry, Geology, and Mathematics students.

The Vigyan Jyoti Programme is a science camp which will be held between 13th and 15th October, 2009 at JNU, New Delhi. Those who are interested in attending the above program are requested to send their application (enclose: CV*, I-card xerox, and AIR 2009 letter) through their respective HODs to Dean UGS by September 7, 2009. All expenses travel (ie 3 tier AC or II class Chair car), free boarding and lodging at JNU, plus Rs 100 per day as allowance will be provided by KVPY.

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