Technical Events: Techvista, Circuit Hunt, Code Quest, SustainX, Techstorm, Hacktra.
Non-Technical Events: Campus Reels, EmotiVerse, Adblitz, Brain Buzz, Meme War, Sync or Sink.

Day 1 – 06 October 2026

🔬 Idea Unveiled
🧠 Tech Blitz
⚡ Circuit Debugging
🏏 IPL Auction
💃 Battle Dance

Day 2 – 07 October 2026
💃 Group Dance
🗺️ Treasure Hunt
🎮 E-Sport – (Free Fire, E-Football)
🎬 Kollywood Kraft
💪 Men’s Physique

Technical Events:
Paper Presentation
AI Battle – Vibe Coding
Code Arena
Pixel Perfect – UI/UX Design Challenge
Non-Technical Events:
IPL Auction
Meme Creation
Game Events – Free Fire & Mini Militia
Treasure Hunt

1.PEN YOUR VISON 1.RHYTHM RIOT 1.BYTE RUSH
2.HACK NEXUS 2.TEAM FEUD 2.PROMPT WARS
3.CRYPT CLASH 3. CLASH SQUAD E-SPORTS 3.VISION FORGE
4.TRAIL OF TRUTH 4.HIDDEN FRAMES 4.CYBER QUEST
5.CODE RESCUE 5.VERBAL COMBAT 5.TRACE//X
6.PIXEL PROTOCOL 6.BLITZ HUNT 6.MIND MERGE
7.FORENSIC ALIBI 7.PLOT TWIST 7.WHATZIT?
8.PROMPT ARENA 8.CAP CHAOS 8.ACTVENTURE
9.SEEKRET
10.HUNTIFY
11.STACK N’ DASH

## Zephoria’26 – Fest Events

Two-Day National-Level Technical Symposium | October 8 & 9, 2026

### 🎯 Day 1 – Technical Events

October 8, 2026

Paper Presentation

Present innovative ideas, research, and technical insights.

Project Expo

Showcase creative projects and innovative solutions.

Quiz

Challenge your knowledge, speed, and intelligence.

Vibe Coding

Unleash your creativity through innovative coding experiences.

Workshops

Gain practical knowledge and hands-on technical experience.

Mystery X

Discover the unexpected in an exciting mystery event.

### 🎉 Day 2 – Non-Technical Events

October 9, 2026

Solo Dance

Showcase your individual talent, rhythm, and expression.

Group Dance

Celebrate teamwork, coordination, and synchronized performances.

Dance Battle

Bring your moves, energy, and competitive spirit to the dance floor.

Short Film

Express your imagination through cinematic storytelling.

IPL Auction

Experience the excitement of strategic bidding and team building.

E-Sports

Compete, strategize, and showcase your gaming skills.

Mystery Y

Step into the unknown and take on the mystery!

Zephoria’26 – Explore. Experience. Evolve.

Event Title: SHORT FILM COMPETITION & SCREENING
Conducted by: CSE(AI&ML) Department

Lights, Camera, Action! 🎬

Unleash your creativity at the ZEPHORIA 2K26 Short Film Competition & Screening, where stories come alive through the lens. This event provides college student teams with an opportunity to showcase their filmmaking skills, creativity, storytelling, and original ideas.

Participants can submit their original short films for evaluation and screening. The event welcomes creative storytellers who are ready to Create, Capture, and Inspire through cinema.

Date: 9th October 2026
Venue: TBA
Entry Fee: ₹350
Participants: College Student Teams

Highlights:
Short Film Competition and Screening
Platform to showcase creativity and storytelling
Open category for short film entries
Opportunity to have your film screened before an audience
Creative exposure and recognition
Exciting platform for college student teams
Rules & Regulations:
Maximum 5 members per team.
Film duration should be 5–10 minutes.
Only original content is permitted; plagiarism is strictly prohibited.
Submission can be made through Pen Drive (physical submission) or Google Drive link.
Judge's decision will be final.

Event Name: ZEPHORIA 2026

Conducted by: CSE(AI&ML) Department

Fest Description:

Vel Tech High Tech Dr. Rangarajan Dr. Sakunthala Engineering College proudly presents ZEPHORIA, a two-day national-level symposium filled with energy, talent, and fun.

As part of this symposium, we bring you an exhilarating Group Dance Competition on 26th September 2025! Bring your crew, sync your steps, and unleash your high-voltage energy to light up the stage, captivate the audience, and claim dance floor supremacy.

For complete details, schedules, and registrations, visit us at zephoria.club.

FOR QUERIES , CONTACT:
J YAHSAHSWINI - ph.no. 99089 66393
NANCY - ph.no. 63799 27486
JENI - ph.no. 80561 83325
SURYAPRAKASH - 6383225663

Fest Name: ZEPHORIA 2026

Conducted by: CSE(AI&ML) Department

Fest Description:

Vel Tech High Tech Dr. Rangarajan Dr. Sakunthala Engineering College proudly presents ZEPHORIA, a two-day national-level symposium filled with innovation, learning, and fun.

As part of this symposium, we bring you the ultimate Cultural showdown featuring our electrifying SOLO DANCE COMPETITION, where individual talent, rhythm, and passion take center stage. Show off your freestyle, classical, hip-hop, or western moves and command the spotlight!

For complete details, schedules, and registrations, visit us at zephoria.club.

FOR QUERIES, CONTACT:
Jeevalingam - ph.no. 93424 15135
Vinisha Christeena J - ph.no. 94427 32145
Rubika V - ph.no. 81224 51458
ARUN MANI JEEVA S - ph.no. 97901 50630

MYSTERY Y – A team-based mystery and logical reasoning challenge involving observation, analysis, clues, critical thinking and conclusion building.

Technical Events
Paper Presentation
Poster Presentation
Project/Model Display
Food Quiz

Non-Technical Events
Cook Without Fire
Food on Film – Short Film Contest
Debate
Photography

Food on Film is a 3–4 minute Tamil short film contest conducted as part of ESCULENT’2K26.

Paper Presentation:
"Paper Presentation" is an event where participants showcase their research, ideas, or innovations through structured presentations. It allows knowledge sharing, critical discussions, and evaluation by experts.

Unsaid:
“Unsaid” is a fun team-based guessing game where one participant gives indirect and creative hints while the other decodes the answer. Featuring gadgets, electronics, and CSE-related terms, it tests communication, creativity, understanding, and presence of mind.

Cipher Coding:
“Cipher Coding” is a competitive technical event combining cryptography, logical reasoning, and programming. Participants solve encrypted clues, coding challenges, and puzzles to unlock a secret PIN, with speed and accuracy determining the winner.

Weblica:
“Weblica” is a creative web development event where participants recreate a given user interface with accuracy and creativity. They will be evaluated on design, layout, responsiveness, visual elements, and overall implementation within the given time.

XCoders:
“Xcoders” is a fun technical coding challenge where participants decipher problem statements written in quirky programming languages like Rajini++ or Chef. Using the given syntax, they must understand the problem and decode a solution in C, C++, Python, or Java.

Group Dance:
“Group Dance” is a vibrant event where rhythm, energy, and teamwork come together. Participants will showcase their creativity, synchronization, expressions, and unique choreography through an energetic team performance.

Spotlight:
“Spotlight” is an exciting solo talent show where participants showcase their unique talents and abilities. From singing and dancing to acting, mimicry, or storytelling, it celebrates creativity, confidence, and individuality.

Connections:
“Connections” is a visual guessing game where teams identify the hidden link between a set of images related to a movie or song. It tests observation, memory, quick thinking, entertainment knowledge, and teamwork.

Find The BGM:
“Find the BGM” is a music-based event where teams identify a movie or song from a background music clip. It tests musical memory, attentiveness, movie and music knowledge, and quick thinking.

Mixed Signals:
“Mixed Signals” is a team-based challenge where participants overcome different communication barriers to solve a given task. It tests teamwork, creativity, coordination, communication, and presence of mind within a limited time.

Lost in Lyrics:
“Lost in Lyrics” is a music-based team event where participants identify the original song from translated lyrics. It tests their knowledge of songs, lyrical understanding, memory, and quick thinking.

E-Sports:
Compete against skilled squads, outplay your opponents, survive the battlefield, and fight your way to victory. Gather your squad, sharpen your skills, and prove that you have what it takes to dominate the battleground.

Thiruvizha Corner:
“Thiruvizha Corner” is a vibrant space where culture, creativity, and entrepreneurship come together. Participants can set up stalls to showcase or sell food, traditional items, arts, crafts, accessories, Henna art, and more.

DAY 1 – 15.10.2026
🔹 Paper Presentation
🔹 Poster Presentation
🔹 AI & Future Workshop
🔹 TECHNOVA – Technical Quiz
🔹 IDEA ARENA – Innovation Challenge
🔹 Debate | Logo Master | JAM
🎮 Bioscope | Free Fire | IPL Auction
DAY 2 – 16.10.2026 (Civil Engineering Students)
🔹 Civil Engineering Workshop
🔹 CAD Masters
🔹 CONCRETE CRAFT CHALLENGE – Cube Contest | Sphere Derby | Sculpture | Floating

The event hosts two competitions: Crime Film Review and Short Film Making. The Crime Film Review Competition is an host event open only to students of NFSU, Gandhinagar Campus. However, Short Film Making Competition is open to all film enthusiasts and budding filmmakers across India. The Short Film Making Competition tests your artisticity and creativity by challenging you to make an original crime short film.

The registration for the Short Film Making Competition closes on September 30, 2026. The registration fee for the competition is Rs. 1000 per entry. However if you on or before September 6, 2026, the registration fee is reduced to Rs. 700. Further, the last date for submission of short films is on October 30, 2026. Once the submitted short films are undergone through a review process by our jury, the top films will be screened at Criminologia E Cinema 2026, which will be held on November 27, 2026 at National Forensic Sciences University, Gandhinagar. The winners of the event will be awarded a first prize of ₹60,000, second prize of ₹30,000, and third prize of ₹10,000 on stage during the event.

The guidelines for submitting short films are listed below.

1. The film should engage with the subject matter of crime or related areas in a creative and interesting way. We encourage filmmakers to base their short films on knowledge and reality.
2. The maximum runtime is 12 minutes total, including all opening and closing credits.
3. You can have a maximum of 10 members who own the film and an unlimited number of members who work on the film.
4. The films should be submitted in an HD MP4 file (1080x1920) in the standard 16:9 Landscape ratio.
5. The film can be in any language, but English subtitles must be included.

Submission of the short films are through online mode only.