I and uday came up with an idea one day to institute an award for the best outgoing student for VVCE as I knew that there were complaints from all corners that the Alumni association is going dead. So the revival process had begun this process would make us more involved in the revival and also would generate more memberships and many people would start contributing to the same. So mails started to flow from my side. As there were many people who had given their consent for the award I did not need any more opinions from the members.
The first step was to advertise the award. Before that I had t form a panel, I wrote mails to 10 or 12 people for becoming the panel members, but some of them did not response, not to worry. Also no one came forward. I had to pull people for the same. I had already asked ,Madhu and Uday for this and they readily agreed. Also I asked Rohit (2001 batch), prasanna and chetan to become panel members. All gave their thumbs up. I was searching for more people, readily Chaddi ( akarsh ) was asked and he gave his consent. Then I asked Prajwal to represent mech dept, but he was forcefully pulled so finally he had no work to do here. So final list was made ready, with 7 people representing all the departments.
The process then began, I wrote mails to all HOD’s with the contents of the poster so that they could put it onto the notice board. Meanwhile I had a brief meeting with some HOD’s during this process. But still the ENV department was showing no response to anything, I really don’t know why they do like this? But who cares it will be a loss for them and I can’t pull people to come forward. It’s their responsibility to come forward.
The nomination process started with students nominating themselves, this would seem like wierid idea, but it was beginning, we wanted to try it out , after repeated information passing we got 10 nominations from 300 + people. It was quite a bad response, then was the nominations from the faculty side, there again less response as they were not enough people to be nominated, also students were asked to nominate their friends, here only 3 nominations came. All the profiles were sent to panel members for the screening. All were able to give the opinions. One fine Saturday I wanted to have face to face discussions with the nominated people, for that all people gave support and the process started. This discussion was to get the info from the people to know more about themselves and what they had achieved during the engineering days.
Then began the interview process, first I had discussions with mech nominated people. Ankit and Vivek were the one who had a discussion with me and Chetan had come with me to do the saem. The discussions went on and as the process went on I decided to drop out vivek as he was only telling about his academic achievements. The discussion with ankit was very good, this guy said, I have done it but it’s not to claim any prize or to get something from the college, but it was to make my department proud. Yes he had done his department proud, he had achieved what other people had not done so far, as he had done various Extra curricular activities and he also had all the skills that needed o make a perfect student who was deserving the award. Then chetan took leave and said he will give his feedback later. I had lunch at home and then I started interviewing EC nominated people, they were academically good and also had done in their extra curricular activities, but when asked about their achievements they were confined to their achievements. As per the award guidelines we were not looking for academic toppers.
The next discussion was with the CS people, hteir profiles were quite awesome with some good achievements to their name. First I started with Ashritha and Sunil , As the discussion went on ashritha told how she was able to achieve many accolades and why she deserved the award, truly she had done wonderfully good in academics, Extra curricular activities, paper presentations and she had qualified in gate with 90+ percentile , also she is involved in NGO founded by sudha murthy. Only one in the batch to do so. She said that she had raised funds for the same and also said how she is contributing for the up liftment of the needy; truly, it’s a skill that you won’t find in people who are really not for spending time for such activities. Then sunil also had a good session with his achievements he also said that Ashritha had done so much for the involvement of people into the NGO and for fund raising.
Then rajesh shenoy was interviewed, along with Priyank of IS , both were good at communication skills, rajesh had done a lot for the CS department for the technical fest which they organized. Also he had good academic records. He was also a forerunner for the award. Priyanka though had nothing much to present in terms of the achievements she was not considered for the award, also the profile looked good but the contributions and the failure to nominate herself for the award in time cost her. Then was the turn of Vishnu , yashawi and others form the CS and IS were interviewed. All were not so much good at the achievements they had done for the college. So they were also left out. So it was 5 PM when I finished the process and wrote down all the points which were +ve for the candidates, I made sure that I have taken feedback about the process so that we can be more competitive from the next year onwards.
After that the feedbacks about the candidates were sent to all the panel members and they gave their feedbacks and nominated the candidates for the award. Uday, madhu were for Ashritha as her achievements were too good and really she deserved the award. I, chetan and chaddi were for ankit as the first preference and Ashritha as the second preference. Then we decided to hand out prizes for both of them as they deserved the prize. All were for it. Then started the design of the trophy and certificates. Meanwhile HOD”s of various departments suggested that one from each department can be given the prize. This made us to rethink on the process and we the jury went on with the policy to make the prizes in the following manner. 2 best outgoing students and 3 best achievers as there were candidates who had done a lot for the college. Again this was Okayed by the panel. until this I had no idea of where the hell were the ENV dept students, I had got the list from their HOD who had nominated only the toppers, I had informed him to pass on my number to them so that I can have a formal discussion , but I didn’t receive any call. So I had to drop out all the ENV students.
Meanwhile the trophy designs were looked into and I had sent some weblinks for the jury to have a look at the designs and I was helped by Anish (2006 batch) who was my colleague. He was giving some designs also Uday gave an idea to include Late.Jeevans drawing on the trophy,. It was a gesture for the person who had contributed for various activities including Vidyuth. It was welcomed by me and I assured Uday that his design will go into the trophy and will be the part of it forever. Meanwhile prassana also gave his designs from the list and I put the final designs in front of the jury and I went to the place at Mysore where I had got the memento for the placement cell in 2005. The shop owner acknowledged our design and he said one of the designs could not be done as it was impossible to do it in India. So again we had to decide on a new design. Then Anish came to the rescue, he gave some design in which I was able to get a design that looked good also I googled for the design and on the election day ( 2 may 08) I gave the final design for modeling , the work was done. The certificate design was left out and meanwhile I was invited for the farewell function along with all the Alumni’s this was a good gesture ( of course after the complaint that alumni’s are ignored for all the things) from faculty. So the design of the certificate was Okayed by Madhu and Uday. The day I went to collect the trophy we had a surprise installed for us, the design of the certificate took time and I was not able to collect both certificates as well as the trophy. I had applied leave to attend the college function, but it was granted with great difficulty ( I don’t know why it happens?). The next day KP and Anish were busy and I had no one to help me to collect the trophy and I was in soup, meanwhile Anish assured that he will come to collect the trophy and he came with me thanks for the same man. So finally the trophies landed to my place and we were ready to hand over the same with some action in the function on the next day (May 16th). The snaps were taken as the entire panel wanted to see the trophy.
The may 16th began with as usual for me I woke up at 90 got ready and went to the campus at 10.by that time the chief guest had arrived, he was none other than Mysore’s Police commissioner, for the first time the chief guest had arrived on time. Good indeed, but the auditorium was half filled. The audi has a good design with “Bose “speakers. I wondered ho come this stingy management has installed “Bose “speakers? I asked arvind if all the people were gonna come? He said yes, I confirmed with ankit that ahritha, rajesh were there. After the function began, the Audi began to fill and it was overcrowded. As the sports day was also clubbed with the farewell function I wanted to hand over the award before the sports function. I messaged ravi kumar and he acknowledged the same.
After the college president’s speech, I occupied the stage. I wanted to take 10-15 mins I always got it. As I had strongly argued against the management in my last speech, they were curious faces in the management people’s face if again I would take them to task, but in hurry I was in no mood to speak those things. So I began by introducing the panel members and said to the audience why we went for this award. Then I began with the best achievers award. The list is as follows.
Mr. Raahul narayan: For constant contributions made towards Vidyuth and IEEE fest that happens in the college. He has also contributed towards the college placement activities as placement coordinator.
Mr.Sonu Abraham: Instrumental in creating vvce.org the official website of VVCE. He currently maintains the websites operations and also has contributed for the alumni association’s activity by maintaining the alumni database.
Mr.Rajesh Shenoy: For starting the “Technoblitz” event for the ASCIS. He has also contributed towards the success of Vidyuth and placement activities of the college.
All these people were the real contributors for the college and they wee honored by the police commissioner by handing them a trophy.
Then came the most awaited award Best outgoing student, all were expecting this moment, when I announced the award, the whole crowd applauded the winners. The following students were selected for the award by the jury.
Ms.Ashritha M S: Awarded All India Rank of 1003 in GATE-2008 with a percentile of 94.36. She is the only student in the Computer Science department to be placed in 2 companies, Siemens Information System Limited and Infosys. She came 1st in academics among C.S.E & I.S.E departments in the year 2007 (5th semester). Associated with “Vidya poshak”, Dharwad based NGO from past 6 months. She was the Class Representative in the year 2007. She was an active Member in organizing “TECHNOBLITZ” event and also an active volunteer for the Vidyuth.
Mr.Ankit: placement co-coordinator for the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He has taken active part in organizing the events of Vidyuth and other departmental fests. He has Organized Quiz competitions in Vidyuth. He has been the main organizer for the event “crusades” till 2008. He has designed website for Crusades every year, since its inception. Organized quizzes for Impulse from the past 2 years. He has also helped students of other departments like E&C, CS with regard to their project work. He also scored 78.3% in GATE Exam this time. He has also worked on projects on Towline Glider, Motorized Sail Boat.
These were the best of the best, I was really amazed when all the audience stood up for these two people when they received the award. It was just like honoring them by all the people. Truly they had done what others had not achieved. After that I had some inputs given to the students and asked them to join the association where they can contribute to their juniors. After wards I was back in my seat. Mr.Rajendra had captured my entire speech in video. Thanks for the same. Meanwhile ankit messaged me that he wanted to take snaps of all the winners, I also wanted to get the winners assembled at one place so that I can ge the snaps, but ankit had arranged for the same. So it was done earlier and the photo session went on and I handed certificates to the best student achievers as their names were not printed during the making of the certificate. The snaps are with the post u can have a look at them. After the lunch I had discussion with all the HOD’s and I was given feedback abt the award. There was all praise for the jury and the choic we had done. Of course there was lot of effort that had gone for the same. So we had chosen the best of the best. In future I would look on to more competition so that the process will get tougher. I am expecting this next year. So this was abt the award that we instituted for the college.
On behalf of the jury I am thankful to all the departments who helped us with their valuable feedbacks during this process special thanks to Prof.Bhojakaumar , Mr. Ravikumar, Mr.L.Basavaraj and Mr.Sadashivegowda for their efforts. Next year the event will add more awards along with this so that all the deserving candidates are honored. I wish all the students of the batch of 2008 a very happy and successful career. This is how our hunt for the best got completed for the year 2008, now its 2009 process. We shall begin it from next December or Jan and will be more streamlined as I have acquired feedback for the process. Now that the panel might be reshuffled, i think most of them will be retained, again time will tell. I also thank all the jury members who made this event a grand success.
The snaps are below:
Me along with the winners.
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