This year IIIT Allahabad introduced its first TechFest ‘Aparoksha’ which was organized from 20-22 march 2015. It aimed at providing a platform for the innovative and imaginative minds to show their talents in technical fields. There were various events organized from different technological fields such as electronics, networking, coding, robotics, development & design and many more. From quizzes to coding contests to making robotic models, it had everything.

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.