There were academic sessions held during the day where professors delivered lectures on a variety of topics ranging from Astronomy to Nanotechnology, from Bioinformatics and Genomics to Wireless communication and Ubiquitous computing. Thereafter interaction sessions, addressed by about three scientists were held separately for students, giving them a chance to explore the current areas of research and development as well as share views on science and technology.
Evenings were graced by the mesmerizing performances of renowned classical dancers and musicians like Bimbawati Devi – the acclaimed Manipuri dancer, Srijan Chatterjee – the young and vibrant Hindustani vocalist and Sanskrit research scholar, Shovana Narayan – the Kathak Guru (Padamshree & Central Sangeet Natak Akademi awardee), Guru Aruna Mohanty – a distinguished Odissi dancer, and others.

‘Asmita- Annual Track and Field event’ the 3 day annual sports meet of IIIT Allahabad became the life of these lines from 13-15 feb 2015. The function started with mashal run and lightining of flame.

This was followed by exciting sports events such as team wise march past, tug of war and triple jump (100m). Other sports events carried out in the three days span were shot put(1600m), long jump, discuss throw, biscuit race, spoon-marble race, sack race, walking race, relay race and many more thrilling events. The events recorded very high participation.

Not just some mind boggling techs, the fest also hosted some cool LAN gaming contests consisting of fifa-15, counter strike, dota-2 and split seconds. Featuring both single and team game it was a major attraction for gaming junkies. The contests went on for various rounds with elimination making it all the more exciting.

Some grand events were organized namely hackathon, techtalks and exhibition. Hackathon was an on the spot event in which participants had to impress the judges showing their creativity on the topics given to them by the judges themselves. Techtalks was to motivate and inspire young minds by connecting them with the pioneers in various fields. Exhibition had the participants to present their innovative ideas along with a working model to earn the judges’ appreciation.

Among other fun activities some workshops were arranged to feed the brain with knowledge about new and latest technologies. The workshops were on Android Application Development, Big Data Analysis & Hadoop, Cisco Networking & Linux Red Hat, Hooker Botz v1.1 and Augmented reality.

Witnessing a lot of participation and excitement of the students the technical fest was a raging success and was ended with the techtalks giving a platform for the learners and the learned to interact.