Innovation is the annual national-level technical fest of MKSSS’s Cummins College of Engineering for Women, Pune. In 2022, due to the restrictions of Covid-19, Innovation was held intra-college but this year we are back with the 23rd edition & inter-college Innovation – ‘Innovation 2023’. Every year around 2000+ participants participate in the event.
Innovation began in the year 2000, with an aim to inspire, ideate and innovate various technical applications in the form of competitions, workshops and speaker sessions. Hackathons, tech treasure hunts, problem-solving events, concept-building and presentation opportunities as well as events hosted by different clubs of the college and many more are organized by Innovation every year. The winners get exciting prizes and goodies, which is a primary attraction for students across different colleges in the country adding to the anticipation and excitement of Innovation
Innovation 2023 has a series of 14 events – 8 Technical and 5 Non-Technical in store for the students!
Tech events are as follows:
- UBS Hackathon:
The Hackathon will consist of a real-life problem statement for which the students will have to present technical solutions. It will be held for 30 hours across 3 days with a primary screening process.
- Soch Machine:
Students have to come up with on-the-spot solutions for multi-domain problems.
- Web Rookie:
Web Rookie is a workshop which will focus on the basics of front-end web development by industry experts. A small competition will be conducted after the workshop is over, and prizes will be given for the best performers.
- Coding Combat:
The participants have to showcase their mastery across 4 coding questions in round 1 for a given problem statement. Round 2 is a surprise twist!
- Tech Jumanji
Tech Jumanji is a board game competition which will check the students knowledge about OOPS, DSA, AI/ML etc. Questions asked will give the participants bonuses or penalties.
- Las Electronicas
This event has a series of 3 mini-games under it:
CASINO ROYALE
RESISTANCE ROULETTE
POWER POKER
The 3 games combined will involve debugging circuit boards, quizzes and other activities
- The Engineer’s Monopoly
This real-life board game will test the students’ knowledge about the basics of Mechanical Engineering and will involve them doing a hands-on assembly. Points will be awarded for time taken, questions answered and money left.
- Eureka
Eureka is a concept-building design competition which gives students an opportunity to interact with industry professionals, and think of innovative solutions for futuristic problems.
- Contraption:
Students have to use their logic and principles of energy conversions to attain a final goal with a series of steps.
- Ideation:
Students have to come up with models and solutions for problem statements with the basic material provided to them.
Non-Tech Events are as follows:
- Trailblazers:
The 2 team members will have to navigate through a maze, with one of them being blindfolded and solve clues and puzzles to reach the end.
- Treasure Rush:
Treasure Rush is the classic treasure hunt jazzed up with technical clues.
- Visionics:
Problem statements extending across multiple domains will be provided, for which the participants have to present a solution on an A4 size poster
- Astromania:
This is a quiz competition about the knowledge of the sky, space and the extraterrestrial.
- Logic Quest:
Like a treasure hunt, but the clues will be a hardcore mathematics chase across the college.