Students showcased Enthusiasm & Talent in an intercollegiate youth festival organized by Army Institute of Technology
PUNE : Policenama online – Army Institute Of Technology | ARMY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (AIT), PUNE organized an intercollegiate youth festival on its campus recently. Events were held under three categories, Sports (PACE’23), Cultural (AMETHYST’23) and Technical (SOLUTIONS’23).
PACE’23 is an annual inter-collegiate sports event held by AIT’s Sports Club. The tournament included sports like basketball, cricket, volleyball, football, lawn tennis, table tennis, badminton, chess, kabaddi, and squash. A total of 178 teams and over 1300 participants from all around the region had registered to compete.
Sub. Bajrang Lal Thakkar, the former Indian rower and Arjun Awardee, who won India’s first individual rowing silver medal at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, was chief guest for the inaugural, while Arjun Awardees and Asian Games Medalists, Sub Maj. Satish Kumar and Sub Arokia Rajiv were the chief guests for the closing ceremony. Brig Abhay Bhat (Retd), Director, AIT, Col. Manoj Kumar Prasad (Retd), Joint Director, AIT, Dr B. P. Patil, Principal, AIT, Faculty, and students were also present on this occasion.
The competitions were held in following categories: Cricket(Boys), Kabaddi, Badminton (Boys, Girls & Mixed), Volleyball (Boys & Girls), Basketball (Boys & Girls), Football 11a side (Boys), Football Six-a-side (Boys & Girls), Squash (Boys Individual & Team), Lawn Tennis (Boys & Girls), Table Tennis (Boys & Girls Individual & Team), Chess (Girls individual & Boys).
Winners in various sports competitions are as follows- Cricket (Boys)- AIT Pune, Kabaddi-JSPM Tathawade, Badminton (Boys & Mixed)-VIT Pune, Badminton (Girls)-AFMC Pune, Volleyball (Boys) –AIT Pune, Volleyball (girls) –AFMC Pune, Basketball (Boys)- AIT Pune, Basketball (Girls)- MIT WPU Pune, Football 11a side (Boys)-CHRIST, Football 6a side (boys)-AIT Pune, Football 6a side (Girls)- Symbiosis School of Liberal Arts Pune, Squash (Boys Individual)-CTW CME Pune, Squash (Boys Team)- UP Squash, Lawn Tennis (Boys)- AIT Pune, Lawn Tennis (Girls)- Cummins Pune, Table Tennis (Girls Individual)-D.Y. Patil University Pune, Table Tennis (Boys Individual & Team)-Flame University Pune, Chess (girls individual)-MMCC Pune, Chess (Boys)- AFMC Pune.
SOLUTIONS’23, a premier annual technical fest of AIT, saw incredible participation of more than 5000 students from many premier institutes of India such as IITs and NITs. The fest conducted more than 20 events in various categories such as coding, gaming, robotics, etc. This year the technical fest also had events testing Machine Learning knowledge such as PROJECT JUPYTER and FLASH 500. For participants’ ease, the events were conducted in both online and offline modes.
One of the highlights of the fest was an expert session by Kushal Vijay (Microsoft Engineer, YouTuber Sensation). The fest concluded with a heart-throbbing bike show which thrilled the audience with their unbelievable wheelies, burnouts and other stunts.
AMETHYST’23, AIT Pune’s much anticipated annual cultural festival, was organized after a long hiatus of two years due to covid restrictions. The festival was organized by the college’s Cultural and Music Club.
Hanami, a traditional Japanese practice of appreciating the transitory beauty of cherry blossoms during spring, was the focus of this year’s AMETHYST. The appreciation of life’s fleeting and transitory moments as well as the beauty of nature is symbolized by the topic “Hanami”.
The festival had 15 activities including Esmeralda – a dancing competition, Alankar – a music competition, Apocrypha – Battle of the Bands, Jam, Debate, Dramatics, and Quiz competitions. The festival also had artistic activities like – Greyscale, tulika, and art attack, giving participants various chances to showcase their talents.
In addition to the competitions, a special attraction at AMETHYST’23 was a Live Concert by Apricot (A Bhopal-based band) and a DJ night. The celebrity judges included Smriti Thakur, a singer and influencer on Instagram and Mohit Solanki, a well-known music composer and sound engineer in the industry.
Over 500 students from 70 teams from colleges like SIBM, Fergusson College, MIT ADT UNIVERSITY, AISSMS, Symbiosis Institute of Technology participated in the event.
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