TechTatva’17 Events: Wrap It Up

Fox Hunt

The participants spent a gruelling day, walking all over campus with antennas they built themselves, striving to locate the receiver, and emerge the winners. The victorious team that found it first were well rewarded with a cash prize of three thousand rupees.

  • Mahia DeSylva

Final Frontier

In this round, the participants realised fiction and had to conquer planets, using codes to prove their worth. To level the playing field, two teams with inexperienced coders had the opportunity to take down a planet already conquered by the experienced ones. Points were awarded for taking over planets, as well as keeping one’s own safe. It was an exciting race to the finish, as Kryptoss slammed the book shut on another successful TechTatva.

  • Mahia DeSylva

Survival Limit

After a second buzzer round, only four teams competed in day four’s round—a treasure hunt. Participants were given different situations they had to solve, and used clues to find different components of an electronic circuit, which they ultimately assembled to finish the competition successfully.

  • Mahia DeSylva

Magnet Gun

The second round required the students to create a magnetic field using two magnets and a cardboard, and make use of the principle of repulsion to bounce the small magnet (the bullet) around the farthest. The first position was secured by Sudarshan, Yogesh, and Krishna. And the second by Somesh, Khushal and Sanjana. The event was short, yet well executed.

  • Karthika Venugopal

Make It Easy

“A mile of a highway will just take you across the highway, but a mile of a runway will take you anywhere in the world.”- Varun, third year Aeronautical Engineering, MIT.

Make It Easy, conducted under the Airborne category for the first time held their workshop on the 5th of October to prepare the participants for the main event, which was held on day two of TechTatva’17. Both individuals and teams of two put their logical skills to the test as they were made to draw a 2D model of an airport based on the criteria provided to them on their questionnaires. Varun further said, “The only difficulty is scaling, and it’s the most important. Apart from that it’s easy, hence Make It Easy. The good part about this event is that the participants aren’t restricted to the aeronautical branch and it’s nice to see the diversity of branches.” The hour and a half long test had more logical questions as opposed to technical ones.

Aditya Iyer (EEE, first year) and Shivam Mathur (CSE, first year) won the event.

  • Karthika Venugopal

Sudo Titans

The final round of Sudo Titans saw 8 teams put their wits to test against each other to make their way to the top. They were presented with a clue which required them to use their aptitude to decrypt the puzzle and get to the next clue. Some of the puzzles were very interesting, for example, one consisted of a photoshop file having 4 layers, which when separated and put side by side, formed a QR code which was to be scanned to reach to the final answer. The effort put in by the organizing team was appreciated by everyone, as all the particpants had a lot of fun. The event ended with the top three teams being declared as the winners.

  • Gaurangi Gupta

Crash Course

Looks like the workshops truly paid off. After a long and hard decision, only one team dominated. The impeccable design of the chassis saw it through to victory.

  • Nidhi Rao

Clawstruck

The final battle saw only one clawbot crowned champion. A week of hard work and sleepless nights culminated in this huge showdown. After facing the challenging final track, only one team emerged victorious and unparalleled.

  • Nidhi Rao

Ground Zero

Round Two saw the contestants put through a gruelling quiz, which tested their knowledge in all things electronics and electrical. The final round was a bug-debug. The last teams standing went head to head, to see who could de-bug their circuit first. A challenge like no other, the event ended in a nail-biting finish.

  • Nidhi Rao

Clash of Chemicals:

The treasure hunt was a puzzle as hard as any other. Though all teams were proficient in their knowledge of chemistry, only one beat the clock and claimed victory. It truly was a spectacular show of teamwork and wit.

  • Nidhi Rao

Mice Maze : Having programmed their own mice bots in the earlier round, the finalists were made to put their bots to the sword by sending them through a brightly-lit, impressively designed maze, with the victor being that Robot which was successfully able to manoeuver itself through the maze and across the finish line.

  • Clevon Peris

Mechanics Assemble: While the task in the first round of this assemblage was to design a series of given 3D model using the CATIA software, those who had best performed this task in the first round would be made to repeat the same process once again, only now with a slightly more advanced difficulty level to it, and with larger and more compound structures. Those with the best technical abilities and imagination to bring out the best representation were declared the winners.

  • Clevon Peris

Conkreation: Following two days of hard work, constructing a dam and plastering it, the ultimate test was to be taken on the final day, as the structures that were designed by the participants were made to face heavy water pressure to determine whether or not they would withstand any forces exerted on them and be capable of holding large quantities of water. Those responsible for the constructions best suited to withstanding the storm were declared the winners.

  • Clevon Peris

ATR : If the first round of this event required a bit of mental awareness to answer the questions given to the participants, the finalists needed to be equipped with that and a lot more as they made their way around the campus on a treasure hunt, searching for the ultimate prized possession, using numerous scientific clues they stumbled upon along the way.

  • Clevon Peris

SCARLET PLAQUE: The final showdown of this event consisted of teams being segregated into those that spread and prevent a given virus and how they would use their resourcefulness to either help or destroy mankind.

  • Clevon Peris

HYDRONOMICS: Building upon what they had done in the first round, the finalists for this event were once again made to use their innovative skills, this time based on certain specifications to which they had to add their own unique twist, with the difficulty level of this round being much higher than the first and requiring a lot more expertise.

  • Clevon Peris

PIN 13

The final and most challenging round of PIN 13 was flagged off at 2 pm on day four of TechTatva. The round comprised a series of complex challenges using Arduino and dot-matrix printers. The event was extremely fast-paced and kept the finalists on their toes. The spectators seemed equally engrossed till the end. In what could be described as one of the most innovative events, only one team emerged victorious to steal all the fame and glory.

  • Tushar Machavolu

 Make it Easy

Contrary to the name, Make it Easy was one of the most challenging events under the Airborne category. It left everyone’s heads scratching and heads racing. The end of the event marked the end of a long brainstorming session in planning the making of a functioning airport. The participants got a hands-on, practical experience and learnt a lot about the internal works of an airport.

  • Tushar Machavolu

MIQ

The last round of MIQ saw a battle of intelligence and general knowledge. The competition was highest in this event as each man was playing solo and only the last man standing would be chosen winner by the end of it. The questions were tough nuts to even though no technical questions were asked. The event ended fruitfully and everyone had something to take away by the end of it.

  • Tushar Machavolu

WOW Factor

The final round saw the teams deciphering linguistics and solving puzzles with great fury and panache. Each team was working seamlessly as one but only one was victorious. The final goal of the event was making contact with an alien civilisation, the dream of every star-gazing space enthusiast. All in all, it was great fun to watch.

  • Tushar Machavolu

Bailout

After banging their heads to solve a question paper based on business related questions only 13 participants out of many had qualified for the second round. The contestants who had cleared round 1 which was hosted on day 1 had to bail themselves out from a crisis situation by heading the company assigned to them in round 2.

Clearing all these rounds and finally claiming the trophy as the ultimate winners of Bailout, TechTatva’17 were contestants Niraj and Arad.

  • Sayantani Saha

Money Tracker

With the last day of Tech Tatva, Bizzmaestro conducted the final round of their event, Money Tracker. Finalists showed their prowess of tracking black money. Neeraj Agarwal and Sarthak Agarwal from second year and first year respectively won the event.

  • Disha Acharya

 Ecorover

In the aim to make a solar car to help the future generation, Anshul, a third year, automobile engineering student won the event. Judges found his design creative and appreciated it.

  • Disha Acharya

Buzzinga

This event was hosted by Bizzmaestro for the first time in TechTatva. In this event the contestants had to write an exam which was purely based on business and finance related questions for round one. Out of quite a few, only 16 participants had qualified for the second round. The second round was that of a market survey. Half the people were eliminated and eight cleared moving onto the last round. In round three, the final eight had to sell their individual plans and ideas to investors. The winners of the event showcased their powers of persuasion and accordingly bagged the cash prizes and awards.

  • Sayantani Saha

Hydrophilia

Nine teams competed to build their best version of a boat that had to not only complete an obstacle course but also push blocks and lift objects around the MIT pool. Only six teams made it into round two.

  • Sushanth Reddy

Brainstorming with LEGO

Participants had to reach all corners of their imagination as they had to design a robot with LEGOs. Round one of this intense event tested the logical abilities of the participants with a written test while the following rounds ensured a more practical application.

  • Sushanth Reddy

Gaming

The gaming event saw ten players in two teams battling it out against each other in the final round to claim the winner’s trophy and the title of the ultimate gamer. In spite of the organisers facing some trouble in the beginning with the LAN cables they had a pretty good turn out with around 10 participants for each game. It lasted for quite a while and everyone including the coordinators and heads seemed to be pretty content with the gamers.

  • Sayantani Saha

Bourne Again

As day one of Tech Tatva 2017 kicked off, eight coders from across MIT gathered to showcase their innovative codes.  Live cricket scores, quicker updates and any other code that could be used for automation was the main idea behind this event. “All the codes were very interesting”, said one of the participants, eagerly waiting for the results.

  • Sushanth Reddy

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