_{Effervescence MMX}

_{All the streets of Allahabad were bursting with police force and underlying tension on September 30, But it was hardly visible at Indian Institute Of Information Technology, Allahabad's fizz frolic and festivity "Effervescence MMX" held between october1 and October 5 2010. The 5 day event was a mixture of various cultural, technical, fashion, musical, and literary events. All the online events were held during first two days and all other events which include all the on stage events, various off stage formal and informal events and celebrity night took over on the rest three days. The entire campus bubbled with students from all across the country.}

_{1st and 2nd October:}

_{The festivity started with online event Stock Hunt in which each participants was given a virtual amount of 5 lakhs and one have to invest the amount in various companies listed on NIFTY and who locked the maximum profit was the winner. Winners in stock hunt were:Roshan Srivastava, Rohit Srivastava, Ankita Gupta}

_{In Webkriti the best web designer was the winner. Deepak Modak won the 1st prize, team of Nikhil, Talasia, Shashank, Manish won the 2nd prize and third prize was awarded to Gaurav, Ankit, Balvibhu.}

_{Purplexuz offered the series of mind boggling puzzles to participants and one has to solve every puzzle to win the event. The winners in this event were: Vaibhav Nigam, Shubhadit Sharma,Pratyush Thakur}

_{Gladiator was a battle of robots not by guns and bullets; it was coding and creativity to knock the enemy. The first three winners were: Paras Gupta, Mukul Bharti, Shobhit Puri}

_{Confondere was the event for those who love programming. The aim of each participant was to make such code which is hard to debug and understand. The 1st prize was given to Devendra Pratap Singh, Ankur Garg and 2nd prize was given to Sachin Jain, Anurag Saxena. Team of Shubham Agarwal and Shubham Sisodia won the 3rd prize.}

_{In Segmentation Fault participants had to identify the bug and debug them. The first three winners were: Sankalp, Varun Jain, Ritesh Singh}

_{AL-Khwarizm was an asylum for those exuberant and creative programming minds to evince their tenacity. This event won by Anton Lunyov (International Winner)}

_{Platzen was an event of numbers and ciphers. Each participant was given an encrypted message and a key and a little bit of support via hint of the problem. Each had to figure out the original message. The first three winners were: Shailendra Upadhyay, Nishant Kumar, Saurabh}

_{Konqueror presented a mind boggling game of treasure hunt. The mysteries lead participants on a trail through the internet and make them connected the wildest things for the simplest links. The first three winners were: Aman Raj, Animesh Demta, Anshulika.}

_{Coldfire was the event for hackers to perform their hacking skills. The first three winners were: Sanjeev Raj Wagle, Varun Jain, Virang}

_{Electrofault was event to check the knowledge of Electronics. The first three winners were: Vimal Kumar, Abhishek Kumar, Ashad Kumar}

_{IT Guru was IT quiz for students. The winners were: Anubhav Srivastava, Neeraj Singh, Rohan Agarwal}

_{Treasure Hunt was the event in which each team had to trace the hidden treasure by following the clues. Team of Saket Agarwal, Beenu ,and Nidhi won the first prize.}

_{The Workshop on Ethical Hacking was conducted on 1st and 2nd October. This workshop was organized by Security Guru. Approximate 70-80 students from different colleges attended the work shop.}

_{3rd October}

_{Business Plan (Plannum) The first and foremost thing that attracts every individual towards being an Entrepreneur is to earn more and more money, the second thing is complete control and the third thing is to earn a good name in the society by giving more and more employment and working for the betterment of the society. This event was for students who had such ideas. The team of Varun, Shikahr and Aakash won the 1st prize and team of Saket, Saurabh, Monica, Rohit won the 2nd prize. Third prize was awarded to Saroj, Arti.}

_{In Robo Race each team had to Built a line follower that traverse the circuit in the least possible time. Rahul Sharma, Tushar Singhal won the first prize and Rachit Garg, Gaurav Mishra won the 2nd prize. Third prize was awarded to Abhishek Jain, and Rishab Goel}

_{Feathers was an event to create an intricate web of ideas and emotions by combining the simple letters together. The Winners were: Atul Shukla, Tarini, Kheyati}

_{Collage was the event to show the creativity. The winners were: Atul, Shilpi, Anish}

_{Sollute Imagine you are givean a case with a real life problem faced by the corporate world. Any minute problem in the company could lead to bigger company backdrops. The participants had to find out the solutions not only to solve the problem but to generate ideas that could lead to be profitable for the companies. Such event was conducted and participants who were imaginative and creative in terms of problem solving techniques were the winners. It became really difficult to choose the best out of them. Arti Trivedi, Saroj Agarwal was the 1st winner and Shashank, Tarun was the 2nd winner. Prabhat, Vineet won the third prize.}

_{Mangnix was a circuit designing contest to show the electronics instincts. The winners were: Harsh Bansal, Tushar Singhal, Gaurav Mishra}

_{The winners of Tattoo Painting were: Nishant, Kamini, Ashwin}

_{RJ Hunt was judged on the basis of participants' spontaneity, clarity, humor, personality and connectivity with the listeners. The winner had a chance to anchor effervescence main-stage. The first three winners were: Shashank Singh Rathore, Aram Bhushal, Neha Tyagi}

_{The Street Soccer was a casual form of soccer with different rules. The winners were: Gaurav, Dhiresh, Sufiyan}

_{B'Cognizance for a good manager, he has to be a good interpolator, he should know what all is going on around him so that he could update his employees time and again. He should know what all is happening in other companies, who has proved to be a master of all trades and jack of none, so that he could negotiate and increase his value, or else make his employees better than him. B'Cognizance was a Business Quiz. It was event of Team of Tarun, Manish, Saket won the first prize, Team of Lalit, Jayant, Shilpi won the 2nd prize. The prize was given to Arpita, Aarti, Anil.}

_{EC Marathaon tested the soldering, bread boarding and circuit understanding skills. The winners were: Naveen Singh, Ashutosh Tripathi}

_{Bollywood Tambola was won by: Sudarshan, Suraj}

_{Bindas Bol (Street Play) was One of the big hit. It was variation of nukkad natak, bindas Bol featured outspoken act. Various team from inside the college and outside took part in the event. The winners were: Ritesh Singh's team won the 1st prize and Chandan Bharadwaj's team won the 2nd prize}

_{Carpe-Diem (solo dance) was the 1st on stage event in the fest and it was a big hit. Various participants from different colleges took part in the event. It had two rounds; the 1st one was elimination round and in 2nd round the participants were judged on their performance on the song and prop by allotted to them. Pooja Rawat won the first prize and second prize was given to two dancers Subhra and Prithvi. Nawshad won the third prize.}

_{A-La-Mode was filled with the glitz and glamour of the fashion world. A-La-Mode was similar to any complete fashion show; it was beauty, carried in glamorous outfits appended with that heart-throbbing style and panache. Fashion show of IIIT was the favorite among the judges. There were 4 themes in the fashion show of IIIT in which Desi Vibes was the winner of the event.}

_{4th October}

_{Mindspeak was an informal group Discussion and the winners were: Atul Shukla, Aman Singh, Shivendra Soni}

_{Cognoscentia was a perfect General Knowledge Quiz. Team of Abhinav Mishra, Suyash Sengar, Harsh Trivedi won the first prize and Team of Prateek, Nikhil, Shikhar won the 2nd prize. Aditya, Kirti, Divij won the 3rd prize.}

_{Penalty Shootout showed that Robots can play soccer too. The teams built a robot that kicked a ball into the opponent's goal. Jainendra, Jitendra, Sachin won the 1st prize and Aditya, Tushar, Rahul.}

_{In Tongues On Fire leg pulling of friends fetched the attractive prizes. Team of RGIIT won the 1st prize and team of SHIATS Allahabad won the 2nd prize.}

_{Ad mania For any business to be a grand success, we need great advertisement and publicity in order to make the product attractive towards the customer and put in his knowledge the pros and cons of the product. This competition was organized and the students surprised us with their great ideas and plans to sell things. Team of Shwetank, Vineet, Prabhat won the 1st prize and Arti, Divij, Himanshu won the 2nd prize. Third prize was tied between team of Shashank, Tarun, Manupriya and team of Rahul, Ved, Rashika.}

_{Gully Cricket was a casual cricket with different rules and regulations. The winners were: Ritesh, Amit, and Jitendra}

_{Melodieux was event of singing competetion. The winners of solo singing competetions were: Anubhav, Manas And winners of Duet singing competetion were: Sandeep, Anurag and Anurag, Manas}

_{The winners of Dumb Charades were: Saurav, Atul Shukla And Tushar}

_{Celebrity Night}

_{Here comes the most awaited event of the Effervescence, the Celebrity Night. This year IIIT'ians got a chance to hear, the famous playback singer KUNAL GANJAWALA who has sung so many hit songs. The entire sitting arena was divided into different sections due to security reasons. KUNAL sang many songs and made the crowd enjoy at the fullest. Students could not control themselves for dancing on the songs. It was a tremendous performance of Kunal which made the event memorable.}

_{After the Celebrity Night, it was time for Juke Box, which is the most awaited among students, where students shook their body on the dance floor and enjoyed the events at most. It was the most awaited event for them.}

_{5th October}

_{Cross Fire was the formal debate. The topic of debate was related to Commonwealth game 2010. The winners were: Aram Bhusal, Aishwarya Saxena, Atul Shukla}

_{In Magnum Opus participants had to make a software to show their ability. The winner was Deepak Modak.}

_{Tug Of War won by Pawan and Rachita.}

_{If you are a chatterbox then Trash Talk was the event for you. The winners were: Adwait, Aram, and Aman}

_{The winners of Antakshari were : 1.Siddhant, Prithvi, Niharika 2.Akash, Keerthi, K.Kamad}

_{IIIT A Roadies event does not need its introduction. The format was based on TV Series Roadies. The winners were: Harshita, Amit, Khushboo Rajput}

_{Foot Loose was one of the awaited events. It was group dance. Many teams participated for this event. Dance Group from JK Institute of applied Physics & Technology, University of Allahabad won the 1st prize and IIIT A home team won the 2nd prize. The third prize granted to MNIT, Allahabad.}

_{Innovation was another awaited event in Effervescence. It was a dramatics event. Many teams from different colleges participated in this event. Thought provoking themes such as Indian attitude of "Chalta hai" with special focus on Commonwealth Games (MNIT), how a common man can help in disasters with showing 26 November terrorist attack ( IIIT A Home Team) , the IIIT college life with highlighting the issue of child marriage( IIIT A B.Tech) and life of common man (IIIT A M.Tech), were some of the best dramas. MNIT, Allahabad won the 1st prize, IIIT A Home Team won the 2nd prize and IIIT A M.Tech Team won the third prize.}

_{La Frenze was the Duet Dance. There were two rounds in this event the 1st was short listing round and selected couples performed on the randomly given song. The duo of Naushad and Pooja of JK Institute of applied Physics & Technology, University of Allahabad won the 1st prize, Prithvi and Shruti of IIIT A won the 2nd prize. The 3rd position was tied between two duo Loknath, Pavan and Vikas Niharika.}

_{The last event of Effervescence was Rock Night. 7 Bands from different colleges shortlisted for the final performance. It was the rocking event. The student crowd became crazy on the beats played by these bands. The first prize was the cash amount of 25,000. There were several other prizes of the best Vocalist, the best drummer and the best guitarist.}

_{Every year Effervescence comes with lots of expectations, this year too Effervescence was a wonderful event organized successfully with the guidance of all faculty members and with the help of students.}

_{Abhinav Saxena (MBA 1st Year)}

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_{Jatin Dua ( MBA 1st Year)}

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