Plutonia-2024
Date: 23 January 2024
The physical sciences department in association with Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium, Bangalore Association for Science Education (BASE) held a science exhibition called Plutonia-2024 on January 23, 2024, as part of the department's objective to provide quality education that improves intellectual capabilities in technical areas as well as employment chances. Vinod Kumar, Associate Vice president, Driving Technological innovation in Life science R & D, Accenture, Bengaluru. Fr. Lijo P Thomas, Vice principal & CFO, Prof Nagendra S, Coordinator for physical sciences and Prof.Sevuga Pandian, Head department of computer science (UG) were present during the inauguration of Plutonia-2024. Exhibition included Computer Science, Electronics, Statistics, Mathematics and physics Projects. Projects created by department students serve as an example of their talents. The goal of this exhibition is to close the knowledge gap between academia and industry needs. There were 54 active projects on display during this event. Through these projects, the physical sciences department's undergraduate students demonstrated their technical expertise. Neighboring college and school students were invited to visit the stall and requested to give the feedback about the project. Children of the migrant workers also visited the exhibition and were very enthusiastic to see the projects. “Pong game”, “Drowsiness detection system”, “Safety Helmet”, “Military Bot”, “RSA - Cryptosystem” “Chaotic theory” were some of the working models included in the exhibition which grabbed the attention of visitors. There was a tough competition among the contestants of the working models in the exhibition; as 54 teams competed for the 1st three prizes of the exhibition. Three best projects from each subject were selected.
15 teams were declared winners and the winners were felicitated by cash prize and appreciation certificates.