FESTS
The sprawling campus of IET relishes a festive landscape with myriad cultural hues in the autumn season every year. Every other weekend you see people dressed in their best attires walking hither and tither to see the beautifully decorated part of the campus,lit up brightly like it never was.
Not one but many fests will make your year a wonderful one. Don't be afraid to participate and have fun as much as you can.
Branch Fests
Alchemy
The understanding of the relationship between consciousness and matter, alchemy is the chemistry of turning lead into gold and the chemical engineer's fest named so is an attempt of creating "golden" memories from its contests.
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The Chemical Engineering Student Society (CheSS) brings to you “Alchemy”, its annual fest, which provides the students a stage for showcasing their talents and exploring their skills, coupled with plenty of fun-filled activities.
The fest usually spans over three days, and witnesses a huge influx of students from all the branches and years. A few of the informal events include 'Roadies', 'Gold Rush', 'Housie', and 'Dumb Charades'. Events like Minute-To-Win-It and Dedications take place daily. For all the gaming enthusiasts, gaming tournaments take place simultaneously. If you’re into movies, TV shows and web-series, there is a quiz just for you. The artists have a separate set of activities organized for them.
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For all our budding engineers, technical events take place, some of which are 'frugal'(best out of waste), paper presentations and 'aquamania'. Sports cannot be left behind either; therefore, 'gully cricket', 'futsal', 'chess' and 'carrom' are also arranged for. For all the bookworms and the nerds, the readers and the writers, a set of literary events are held which include debates, extempore, spell-bee competitions & group discussions.
The fest usually concludes with the ‘Walk of Fame’, a ramp-walk event, which is sponsored by a brand and the winners receive shopping vouchers. The winners of the various events are felicitated with certificates and trophies in a prize distribution ceremony held after the fest comes to a close.
Spandan
The Civil Engineering department blesses us all with its branch fest ‘Spandan’ every year, which provides a break from the daily mundane schedule of college and hostel life. Spandan is a doorway to the fun-filled euphoria of technical, formal, informal and gaming events conducted by AADHAR society of IET.
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The fest has events for everyone. The technical events include bridge making, boat making & house making, where one is required to construct a bridge, a boat or a house using ice-cream sticks by applying the laws of physics. For all the literature enthusiasts, debates and spell-bee competitions are conducted.
Many informal events also take place: 'tug of war', 'tattoo making', 'face painting', 'mock CID', 'ramp-walk' and 'talent rush' being some of them. For all the 'TV Maniacs', there is a quiz with the same name which tests you on how strong your movie and TV-show game actually is. 'Just duet' is a couple dance activity where the students get to showcase their dancing skills. For all the avid gamers out there, tournaments and competitions are held too.
The fest culminates with a scintillating EDM night, which is followed by a prize distribution ceremony.
Mechfest
MECHFEST is a technical and cultural fest organized by the Mechanical Engineering Department of IET Lucknow. The department strongly believes that co-curricular activities complement academics and help in shaping the personality of the students.
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A plethora of events are organized providing a platform for the students to explore their hidden talents. The events are majorly divided into two categories: informal events and technical events.
The informal events have the literary and the cultural events under them. 'Personica' is an event wherein the students get to showcase their talents from singing, to dancing, acting, stand-up and many others. 'Inquisition' requires the participants to form teams of 5 and search for clues that will lead to deciphering the password of a phone. Another fun event is 'Contra Punto' wherein some of the participants act as celebrities and others as their interviews. Questions are put up to those acting as celebrities by the interviews. For all the gaming maniacs, LAN gaming takes place, to up the ante with their ludicrous amount of practice, acute timing, and skills, and often combine such maneuvers to create an even more ridiculous outcome. The games included counter strike, FIFA, and mini-militia.
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The technical events of this fest are amongst the most sought after. The most important event of this category is the one where students make their own working models. 'Innovatica' is another such event where students demonstrate their original and creative ideas that could be implemented in our world for its betterment. 'Mech-Wars' requires the participants to create a cart using the things provided. The carts are put to a test in a race, and the cart which wins, bags the prize. Apart from these, a technical quiz is also conducted.
The winners are rewarded after the culmination of the fest, for which a prize distribution ceremony is held.
Ankuran
The Society for Electronics Exploration & Development (SEED) presents us each year with their fest ‘Ankuran’, a majorly technical fest, something which all the robotics enthusiasts eagerly wait for. The fest witnesses both cultural and technical events.
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In the technical category, the events that stand out and steal the show every year are Robo-soccer, Robo-race and Robo-war. The participating teams build their very own LFRs & robots which are put to a test as they indulge in some fierce action during the three events.
Some of the informal events include 'sillas musicales', 'moda rapida', 'ramp-walk' and many more.
A huge influx of crowd is seen during the fest. The participants of the various events are cheered by the on-lookers and the whole atmosphere is that of enthusiasm and fun.
Memefiesta
For the love of memes, the CS & IT Departments of our college organize a fest dedicated to precisely just that. After all, memes are as much a part of our lives as anything else. This fest gives all the meme-lovers a platform to showcase their knowledge in this field.
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The events are both technical and informal. From 'Scavenger Hunt', to 'Ramp walk', and 'Kritzvilla', a huge crowd is seen to participate. An A/V quiz is also held, along with a game of 'Tambolabaaz', and the 'memecon' event that take place simultaneously. The technical events include 'Cyphertech', 'Googler', 'Codef</>' and 'Inference', along with a technical quiz. LAN games are arranged for the gaming lot of our college. Apart from these, some fun games take place on a daily basis. All in all, the fest surely is a fun-filled ride, one which every IETian enjoys to the fullest as it renders a break from the daily routine of classes and homework.
College Fests
Encore
'ENCORE' is IET Lucknow's cultural and technical fest. A celebration of skills and creativity, it is organized every year with and amasses participation from colleges throughout the country. Encore stands for Endeavour, Nous, Creativity, Opera, Rollick and Enthusiasm. It gives a stage for the technical youth to showcase their capabilities and highlight skills which otherwise might not have even been discovered.
Encore consists of a variety of events which take place such as stage events, including Musical Night: Group songs, Filmi Solo, Non-filmi solo, Duet songs, Folk Songs,Western solos, Instrumental, Classical Round. Further in the area of choreography : Western Group , Western Solo , Folk Group, Folk Solo, Classical Solo are organized. In the section of Dramatics - Street Play, Skit, Stage Play, Mono-acting, Mimicry are some events which take place.
There are also non-stage events such as
Sketching,3-D drawing, Mehndi,Rangoli, Collage Making, Cartooning and other activities which come under the umbrella of fine arts. Quiz events include Computer Quiz , Sports Quiz, Business Quiz, History Quiz, Cine quiz, Trivia,etc
Coming to the Technical sphere of things, we have Technical Quiz, Puzzlika, Mock GRE, Creative Writing, Mathematics Olympiad,etc
The literary geek need not worry either as we also have a plethora of activities for them in both Hindi and English. We conduct Debates, Group Discussion, Elocution, Hard Talk, Jam, Reason It Out, Mock CAT, Volte-Face, Hindi Saras Antakshari, Srijanatmak Lekh, Anargal Pralap, Hindi Sahitya Prashonotri, Ashu Bhashan, Hindi Debate, Kavyanjali, Chhintakashi, Manthan (volteface),etc.
It has proved to be one of the most awaited events of Lucknow.The tremendous number of skills you learn is by itself enough reason to take a plunge into this IET wildcard.
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Shauryotsava
Shauryaotsava is the athletic and sport fest of IET Lucknow. The 3-day sport riot has become one of the largest inter-collegiate events of the city over the years and for some is described as being 'a tribute to all sport enthusiasts'. The thrill of victory is one of the most dear emotions a person can feel, however, at one point it ceases to be about winning. It transforms to becoming more about the surrounding atmosphere rather than the game itself.
The events in the fest include both indoor and outdoor games such as athletics,carrom,badminton, volleyball, tennis,taekwondo,basketball,chess,cricket,football,throw,kho-kho,handball kabaddi,etc.
Being burrowed in books all day isn't the best way to make the most of your college experience. Try a hand at a game too. Who knows, maybe you'll end up winning laurels in Shauryaotsava next year?
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Pravah
Pravah, the Arts and Cultural state level fest conducted by Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam University was hosted by Institute of Engineering and Technology, Lucknow on the consecutive dates of 28th and 29th February. Winners of zonal level competitions of 700+ colleges from eight different zones participated in various events based on the theme of 'Atulya Uttar Pradesh'.
The magic that surrounded the events were spectacular and highlighted the cultural diversity across the nation.
Some of the activities included Band wars, Fashion choreography, Solo, duet,group dance and music competitions,mime, skit and mimicry competitions, art from waste, face painting, t-shirt painting, cartooning etc.
A rich blend of competition and zeal made the fest a magical treat for all who were there to witness it.
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Parakram
The absence of indecision even in the face of death is the true mark of valour. Parakram meaning Valour or in layman terms 'Courage' has always stood to its name, overcoming every possible chance to outlast the race. Parakram is a three day technical fest organized by IETians which explores the innate talent of the students.It is a platform to think, create and exhibit innovative ideas. The activities in this fest are divided on the basis of branches, they include codearena, codathon,web development competitions,quizzes,aquamania,troica,inertia, tesla, Avishkar,resiswars etc. They also include events such as management related quizzes, graphic designing competitions and DJ wars. There is literally something for everyone. How not to be intrigued?
The winners are awarded with attractive cash prizes but the learning experience is certainly the best prize of all.
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Convergence
Institute organizes "Convergence", an event to mark the Silver Jubilee Reunion of its graduates every year, along with alumni of other batches. The day is celebrated with a certain celebratory favour as the alumni come to visit their roots and get lost in the pages of yesterday. The students usually come up with a variety of activities to be conducted as well as performances to be shown to the 'mates-of-oh-so-long-ago'.
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The alumni are welcomed with full energy and get a glimpse of the college atmosphere at present.
The day is jam packed with various talents being show-cased by several clubs,such as cultural performances,nukkad natak and band performances.
Almost every year we get to see the same passionate response from the respected alumni: ' It's changed so much,yet it is still the same'.
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