ADI SHANKARA BOOT CAMP

REPORT

Selection of Executive Committee

The Executive committee of Adi Shankara Boot Camp for the session 2016-17 was declared. Selection of Executive Committee members were based on the rules stated by KSUM( Kerala Start up Mission).

The institution expressed its pride over selection of following members of the Adi Shankara Boot Camp for 2016 -2017.

CEO (Chief Executive Officer) - Nandan A S

CTO(Chief Technical Officer) - Jaikrishnan

CFO(Chief Financial Officer) - Arjun H

CMO(Chief Marketing Officer) - Akash Bhaskaran

CCO(Chief Creative Officer) - Veena Venkitesh

CSO(Chief Social Officer) - Aadarsh K S

COO (Chief Operating Officer) - Aju G Nair

The Executive committee of Adi Shankara Boot Camp for the session 2016-17

In order to improve the effectiveness of entrepreneurship and successful operation of Adi Shankara Boot camp(ABC) we have identified following staff members as mentors.

Prof.R. Rajaram - HOD (CSE) – Nodal Officer

Ajay Basil Varghese- Assistant Professor ( IT) – Nodal Officer

Sijo George -Assistant Professor ( EEE)

Sandeep O S - Assistant Professor (ME)

Albins Paul- Assistant Professor ( ECE)

Record of Registrations

Having conducted continuous induction session for the engineering students in Adi Shankara Institute of En-gineering and Technology a good number of students have shown their interest and registered themselves as boot camp members.

The statistics shown below shows year wise registrations recorded till now. As visible, more of first year stu-dents have enrolled for the same which is a good sign for the institution to witness the rising sun of the insti-tution and thus the future entrepreneurs.

NASA Space App Challenge

A bag of glory bagged home by the technocrats of ASIET. A team consisting of Sooraj K S, Akash Bhaskaran, Mohammed Sinwan and Thejus Jain, 3rd year Computer Science students from Adi Shankara Institute of Engineering and Technology won BEST PROJECT AWARD for NASA SPACE APPS CHALLENGE hosted by NASA & Kerala start-up mission.

It was a 48 hour hackathon at College of Engineering, Trivandrum. Over a 100 enthusiastic participants from various colleges had challenged themselves up to bring up bright exciting applications for space with the guidance of mentors from VSSC, IIITMK, Start-up Mission, IBM etc.

As the name itself suggests that the participant will have to meet a number of footraces to reach to the bundle of success there were about 50 Challenges under 6 Categories:

Earth

Space station

Journey to Mars

Solar system

Aeronautics and

Technology

The three best projects were selected under these categories. The winners received a handsome cashprize of Rs 10,000/- on 18th June 2016 Saturday at Techno Park, Trivandrum in the presence of CEOs of several reputed companies.

US Consulate General's Cyber security Innovation Contest

It was no longer period when the hard work and dedication of the following boot camp members raised Adi Shankara Boot Camp to the frame of fame. The hall of fame got even glorious with new edition of triumphs. With this benchmark a novel version of glory met its ways with future endeavours.

The victorious atmosphere was reprised when Nandan.A.S, Muhammed Zafran, Akash Bhaskaran and Thejus Jain won the Kerala prelims for the best cyber security based product and participated inthe grand finale at VIT, Chennai campus.

The personal appreciation from the organisers raised the level of confidence of the participants. Later, the special recognition from the college management and other affinity groups made the students ready for their another wall of war.

(Accommodation and food availed at campus)

i3 - Ideate Innovate Incubate Workshop

To an Entrepreneur what values the most is one idea which can turn the world to them.

To have wider and exemplary learning on ideation, the students of Adi Shankara Boot Camp participated in a three day workshop on Ideation Innovation and Incubation – i3 was organised by the Kerala Start Up Mission on 23rd, 24th and 25th of July 2016 in St Joseph College of Engineering and Technology, Pala. A group of five students including Arjun H, Akash Bhaskaran, Thejus Jain, Sooraj KS and Thomas Peter attended the workshop from ASIET. Around 70 students from various parts of Kerala took part in the workshop.

The 3 day long sessions were taken by Mr Rohit Radhakrishnan, Co-founder, Open Fuel and Mr Akhil, fellow of Kerala Start Up Mission. The main insights of the sessions were ideation, innovation, and incubation. Students were motivation driven and led to ome up with new ideas which were socially relevant as well as market valued and build those ideas to the prototype stage. The pitching event took place at the end of the third day on the basis of the ideas built. Three teams were given away with prizes for their performance in the pitching event.

By also keeping the leisure part of life mind, an enthralling journey to the nearest tourist spot, Ayyampara was organized where the students could rejoice their breath to the breeze of cool air.

At i3 Summit: Participants (left picture and session by Rohit Radhakrishnan(right picture).

Google applied with CS

The workshop was aimed to ignite students and faculties to take up mobile application developmentusing Android environment. Week long workshop on android programming and development was conducted for our students at the SAP lab-Adi Shankara. The workshop was very well received by the participants.

The students were outreached with a message highlighting the importance and career opportunities with Android App development in today’s smart world.The workshop was scheduled with live demonstration and lab sessions. This workshop provided practical exposure to the students in Android app development in Eclipse EDI. The TechFort team has given good source of knowledge to students, and students took this opportunity as a challenge and developed apps and load them on their mobiles in essence of time during the session.

Students felt that this value added session on android mobile app development was very much useful for them and they got the basic idea for developing mobile application. It is planned to extend this value added training in the next semester with some medium level of application

development. Through this workshop students were able to explore to the world of android and its application.

Google Applied CS with Android:App Challenge

Witnessing the real need of hour an initiative to conduct an app challenge was instigated. Because itis well known that learning itself is not enough but learning followed by its implication in the real practical world gives these workshops a label of completion. And thus was the initiative taken by the boot camp members of ASIET which not just brought them a good figure of participants but also a good figure of competent people who were eager to accept the challenge.

This enthusiasm amongst the peer group raised the assurance level of the students and they undoubtedly developed apps which served the purpose of the challenge. This enthusiasm among thestudents urged the college management to make special mentions about the college boot camp in not one but many places and in turn increased the level of tech-brains in the column of people.

After the classes conducted for the students on android a good response from the students was received which enhanced the level of confidence in them. Android app challenge was conducted within the campus with regards to the Google Applied CS with Android workshop and the best three teams were given funds as prize money.

IEDC Pre-summit

IEDC has been a constant support and proved to be a backbone to every start-up venture. To have a wider and exemplary idea on start-up missions, the two technocrats of Adi Shankara Boot Camp, Akash Bhaskaran and Nandan A. Sudheer participated in the IEDC pre-summit at Sree Narayana Gurukulam College of Engineering. Akash Bhaskaran was selected as a volunteer for the summit.

Nandan A S and Akash Bhaskaran at IEDC pre-summit

All Kerala IEDC summit 2016

The Innovation Entrepreneurship development centres are small incubators promoting Innovation and entrepreneurship from the college level itself.

Adi Shankara Boot Camp was one of the emissary boot camps which took part in the summit and not just that but also made its name among all other boot camps by coming under top 25 enduring boot camps. Akash Bhaskaran, Thomas Peter, Vaishnavi, Thejus Jain, Arjun H, Akhil, Sooraj K S, Aiswarya and Bebetto Sabu participated in this IEDC summit at Trivandrum this year.

Bebetto Sabu brought glory by winning the third prize in the idea pitching competition in association to the IEDC summit. Sooraj KS earned appreciations by giving commendable presentation

By the help of this IEDC summit our boot camp members were inspired to strengthen the entrepreneurship skills of students. The participants were pushed to work on a particular product and enhance their technical skills.

Participants at IEDC Summit in Trivandrum

Bebetto Sabu won the third prize in the

Idea pitching competition

Auto nebula Idea pitching competition

Idea is a notion which is innate and never built. To be able to present an idea to a group of intellectuals is what takes a participant of Auto nebula Idea Pitching competition to do.

Akash Bhaskaran, Sooraj K.S and Thomas Peter attended the Auto nebula idea pitching competitionat Trivandrum and brought home a cluster of mind gobbling ideas to raise the level of pitching skills in home boot camp. The participants did not just equip the skillsets but also ensured to share it with the peers and thus a follow up was held to do the same.

This onewell-known fact that entrepreneurs should submit an innovative business idea that demonstrates outside-the-box thinking, an original spin to something familiar or the development ofa unique product or service that will provide new or greater value to the consumer. The two minds equipped best of the provisions made there.

Ernakulum coordinators meeting

The active volunteers of Adi Shankara Boot Camp took an initiative to witness a precursor event IEDC Student Coordinator Meet-up on 13th Aug, 16 at Sree Narayana Gurukulam College of Engineering.

The coordinators witnessed a talk on basics to core start-up enterprise development. The Meet-up was in all an interactive session wherein the volunteers were allowed to get accompanied with the KSUM emissaries and other Ernakulum IEDC volunteers. The session was later followed by many games which actually made the audience an active participant in the session. These games were a potpourri of fun and also mind guzzling traces. The active workforce of Adi Shankara Boot Camp took part in the talk and as always ensured a wave of change in the conventional boot camp tradition.

As a part of introducing new moderations in the existing boot camp a meeting was held which ensured presence of all the active volunteers and the existing action plan was updated.

Workshop on Starting a start-up

Witnessing a great entrepreneurial spirit in the boot camp members the institution ensured to send the willing students for the workshop on "Starting a start-up" on 17th August. The keynote features of the workshop were to make students aware of not just victories but also of failures from where stood many pillars of success. Akhiljyoth, Nidhin Babu, Muhammed Zafran , Arul Vyas attended the “Starting a Startup” talk by Dr. K.C.Chandrasekharan Nair at Productivity house, Kalamaserry.

The workshop ensured a positive response from the participants who were considerably inspired by the notion of the workshop. The endurance of the workshop promised rise of new leaders, entrepreneurs and some enigmatic experts.

Akhiljyoth, Nidhin Babu, Muhammed Zafran , Arul Vyas attended the Talk

Hackrade- Ethical hacking Workshop

India's renowned Ethical Hacker, Information Security Researcher and Cyber Crime Consultant, Rizwan Shaikh is one of the actively involved in providing Ethical Hacking and Information Security training and services. Adi Shankara Institute tasted another flake of grandeur when Sir Rizwan came down to our institution to give power pack training on Ethical hacking and Information security.

The workshop was a 3 day session wherein every day dealt with different fields of hacking. The students actively participated in the workshop. On the third day, a competition was conducted wherein the winners were given away with prizes. Students were provided with a hacking kit whichcontained the essentials of hacking.

On the closing of the session, Sir Rizwan expressed his happiness of being called again to the college. An open forum was conducted at the end which beheld various genuine feedbacks of the students. The workshop ended on a momentous note when everyone assembled for a group photo and brought the workshop to an end.

Hackrade Workshop - Participants and Volunteers with Rizwan Shaikh.

MOU Signing Ceremony with NASSCOM

Adi Shankara Institute of Engineering and Technology witnessed a frame of proud moment with the signing of Memorandum of Understanding with the National Association Software and Services Companies, NASSCOM. The National Association Software and Services Companies agreed to sign three memorandums of understandings with our institution. Adi Shankara Institute of Engineering and Technologyis the first and only college in Kerala which has signed a memorandum with this trade organization.

NASSCOM provides its member institutions and the students associated with this programme with opportunities such as placement trainings. Because today for a student it is not just finding a job is cardinal but also making career is. Making collaboration with NASSCOM has served being a key to many root problems the professional students are facing today. The institution was left with no words to express its gratitude to NASSCOM.

The occasion was presided over by Padma Shri Dr V R Gowrishankar, the CEO and Administrator of

Sringeri Math and its properties, Dr. Sandhya Chintala, CEO and Executive Director of SSC IT-ITES sector of NASSCOM and the Vice-President of NASSCOM, Shri K. Anand, the Managing Trustee of Adi Shankra Trust and Mr. Udaya Sankar, the Regional Head of NASSCOM Education Initiatives for Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Pondicherry.

Shri K. Anand, the Managing Trustee of Adi Shankara Trust welcomed our honourable guests with a remarkable welcome speech. Later,Shri. S. Venu, the Associate Director of Adi Shankara Group of Institutions gave more insight on NASSCOM MOU initiatives. Padma Shri Dr. V.R. Gowrishankar, the CEO and Administrator of Sringeri Math and its properties gave his presidential address. Sooner, the most awaited event of the day, the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding with NASSCOM.Dr. S.G. Iyer, the Director of ASIET and Prof. C.P. Jaishankar felicitated the honourable guests.

Adi Shankara group of Institutions has signed its memorandum with NASSCOM which ensures every student a platform to elevate their skills to a level higher than the existing.

Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Innovation Challenge

Adi Shankara Boot Camp is all set to organize Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Innovation Challenge which is planned to discover ground-breaking approaches to answering persistent sustainability and social needs.The competition is open to currently enrolled students in Sree Sarada School, Sree Sankara College and Adi Shankara Institute of Engineering and Technology.

All qualifying student projects will be invited to showcase their innovations on October 15th of this academic

year, to be presented and awarded with best of rewards. The main objective of this competition is to allow

students to refine their ideas, meet other entrepreneurs, gain exposure in the booming entrepreneurial net-

work.

The competition gives students, faculty and alum the opportunity to work together to learn how to effective-

ly formulate and communicate the value of innovative ideas and turn them into real opportunities.

Some of the advantages ofthis competition over other competitions are:

Access to unbiased and high quality judges.

Opportunity to receive quality and unbiased feedback of your innovative idea from experts.

Have your idea ready to be presented to possible sources of funding to take further.

Network with other entrepreneurs with various complementary skill sets.

The journey of APJ Abdul Kalam Innovation Challenge:

On July 27th, the APJ Innovation Challenge was launched.

By first week of August, a briefing session on what is the challenge was conducted. Theregistration to the challenge was made open.

A pre- mentoring session was conducted for all the teams. The boot camp provided in-mail support to all the teams which increased their confidence.

Over 100 abstracts of the projects were received by the end of the month.

On 7th September, 2016, a one-to-one session was conducted for all the teams by theinternal panel members

Poster week was conducted in the week following wherein each team designed createdinnovative posters.

The later week witnessed a video week, where all the students made videos and presentedthem before the internal panel.

On October 5th and 6th the Evaluation by the internal panel members was conductedwherein final 22 teams were shortlisted for the final evaluation by external panel members.

The final external evaluation was conducted was conducted on 14th October, 2016. Thepanel members came from esteemed companies and organizations.

The award ceremony to be conducted on October 15th, 2016, the 85thbirth anniversary.

With the journey of Innovation Challenge, Adi Shankara Boot Camp proved to be the BestEntrepreneurship Development Cell in South India over social media.

The main objective of carrying out this innovation challenge was to inculcate the idea ofproject development in the students from the very beginning of their career.

This innovation challenge gives a boost to the participants and motivation to move aheadwith their ideas to more and better platforms.

Institutional Knowledge Officers Meet

Institutional Knowledge Officers Meet-held on 17th October for the member colleges of ICT Academy in

central Kerala (invitation attached) at multipurpose Hall, Athulya, Infopark Kochi.

Top 10 Meet for students

Top-10students of our institute (any branch /discipline) to join them for a discussion forum with the

below mentioned distinguished panel members of leading companies in Infopark, and ask any

questions that the students may have on Technology, Industry, Career opportunities and life

experiences.

Mr. Dinesh Thampi - VP & Head of Operations, TCS Cochin

Mr.Mukund Krishna - Founder & CEO Suyati Technologies

Mr. Girish Prabhu - CEO - Instio Technologies (Start up)

Mr.Syamlal - Head of Delivery, Cochin - UST Global

OPEN IoT WORKSHOP

The two day Open IoT workshop along with Inauguration of Free & Open Source Club at Adishankara Institute of Engineering and Technology was held on 15th and 16th October

2016. The inaugural ceremony commenced with the welcome speech by Mr.Mohammed Sinwan, Chief coordinator of Free & Open Source Club. Associate professor Dr.Muralikrishnan of CSE Department gave away the presidential address in the absence of H.O.D Dr.R Rajaram and Pricipal Dr.Neelakandan P.C. The function was inaugurated by lighting lamps by the Chief Guests of the event and the mentors for the workshop Mr. Renjith R, senior developer from ICFOSS along with Mr.Renjith and Mr.Nithin from ICFOSS. A memento was presented to the guests as a token of our gratitude. The inaugural function was dispersed after the vote of thanks by Ms.Rinta Antony, coordinator of Free & Open Source Club.

The workshop session by Mr.Renjith clearly started with Introduction to python programming as high level, generic purpose, interpreted and dynamic language followed by practical application of python with raspberry kits in the afternoon session.

The second day started with introduction to sensors and interfacing them with Raspberry pi kit. Working of LEDs with and without a switch was done, followed by interfacing DHT-11,humidity and temperature sensor with Raspberry pi was done along with serial communication to the kit.

Afternoon session started with the Introduction to ESP-8266 Wi-Fi module and it’s interfacing with the kit. Pushing values gained from DHT-11 sensor to a web server with thehelp of ESP-8266 Wi-Fi module was covered by the end of the session. The 2 day workshopcame to an on 16th October 2016 by showing a path to the world of Open IoT and to Raspberry pi programming for the participants.

Adi Shankara Yong Scientist Award 2017

Adi Shankara Institute of Engineering & Technology College & Sree Sarada Vidyalaya

proudly present "Young Scientist Award 2017" in association with NASSCOM 10K Startup

Mission. This event aims to promote the innovative ideas of high school and higher secondary

students. The Best Project will be awarded with a trip to Kennedy Space Centre NASA along with

their School Principal.

Adi Shankara Boot Camp

Financial Expenses:

No Event Expense1

APJ Abdul Kalam Innovation Challenge Rs. 80,000/-

2 Workshops:Android Classes

Rs. 20000/-

3 Workshops:Ethical Hacking

Rs.30000/-

4 Travel: A 5 Member Team participated at Start-up i3 program held at St. Joseph CollegePala

Rs.640/-

5 Travel:Ten students participated at IEDC SUMMIT 2016 held at Trivandrum

Rs.5000/-

6 Travel:A team of 6 students participated at Auto-Nebula Competition held at Trivandrum

Rs.1200/-

7 Travel:

A team of 4 students Participated at NASA Space App Challenge held at Trivandrum.

Rs.2000/-

8 Miscellaneous: Stationary

Rs. 1200

9 Miscellaneous:Flexes

Rs. 800

Total Expense Rs.1,40,840/-

Balance Rs. 59,160 /-

Events:

1) APJ Abdul Kalam Innovation Challenge

The main objective was to inculcate the idea of project development , creativity and

innovation in students. The challenge included several rounds such as one minute pitch, internal panel evaluation and external panel evaluation.

Expense: Rs. 80,000/-

Workshops:

2) Android Classes: Android Classes were arranged for around 30 Students to give them an idea on developing and marketing Android applications. The Android classes were conducted in evening sessions of May and June according to the available time slots. Sunil Mathai, who is a software developer at Clizo Tech conducted the training.

Expense: Clizo Tech: Rs. 20000/- for conducting the Training classes

3) Ethical Hacking workshop: A 3 day workshop was conducted on 19,20,21 August for 80 students on the topic Ethical Hacking and Cyber Security conducted by Mr. Rizwan Sheik , founder and CTO of PRIESTINE INFO SOLUTION.

Expense: Ethical Hacking Workshop: Rs.30000/- for conducting the day workshop.

Total Workshop Expenses: Rs. 50,000/-

Travel:

1) A 5 Member Team participated at Start-up i3 program held at St. Joseph College Pala.

Expenses: Rs.640/-

2) Ten students participated at IEDC SUMMIT 2016 held at Trivandrum.

Expense: Rs.5000/-

3) A team of 6 students participated at Auto-Nebula Competition held at Trivandrum.

Expense: Rs.1200/-

4) A team of 4 students Participated at NASA Space App Challenge held at Trivandrum.

Expense: Rs.2000/-

Total Travel Expenses: Rs. 8640/-

Miscellaneous:

1) Stationary: Various stationary required for the purposes of conduction workshops, classes etc were bought.

Expenses: Rs. 1200

2) Flexes: Flexes were used for the Android Workshop.

Expenses: Rs. 800

Grand Total : Rs. 1,40,840/-

Balance - Rs. 59,160 /-