Mangaluru: The two-day national level IT Fest ‘Epitome 2015’, organized by PG School of IT of AIMIT, St Aloysius College, Mangaluru was inaugurated on Thursday here in its premises.
In his welcome address, Rakesh Kumar, staff coordinator said that ‘ Epitome 2015’ is the annual fest conducted by the PG IT School as an occasion for all students nationwide to showcase their innovative skills and talent. Several students have opted to participate in this event that will run for two consecutive days starting March 12. Newskarntaka.com is the official media partner of the IT fest.
The chief guest Dr. Aloysius Sequeira, Professor Social Science and Management, NITK, emphasized on the opportunities that are open to the students. He asked students to work on solutions that are lacking even with all the technological advances around us. “Acquisition of newer knowledge firmly grounded on previous experiences and understanding could yield amazing results. Even with all the progress we have made in technology. Still there are wide gaps that need to be narrowed down and filled; we need realistic and pragmatic solutions”, he said.
Fr. Denzil Lobo SJ, Rector, St. Aloysius College and the Director of AIMIT who presided over the program reiterated the idea of creative ideas and critical thinking. “Giant companies would stumble and fall if they do not build and prepare for the future”, Lobo said, citing Ken Robinson, he restated the capacity that will be built into self-learning computers using the knowledge stored from previous generations.
“Epitome is one of several academic programs that AIMIT organizes every year encouraging the students to overlay and eliminate that fine line of dichotomy separating various areas of sciences and technology”, he mentioned.
The AIMIT PG School of IT has been rated in the top 50 of the 800 and odd technical institutions in India, and has also won the top IBM Mentorship Award, by the International Business Machines (IBM) Center of Excellence for the year 2014.
The inaugural program closed with the vote of thanks by the student coordinator Mr. Avinash M.N.
The two-day event with participation from several colleges would continue through March 13 and end with the valedictory program.?
