Technical Events
Paper Presentation
AI Prompt Arena
Tech Quiz
App Design Sprint
GTF
Non-Technical Events
Free-Fire (Esports)
Who’s the Character?
Escape Room
IPL Auction
JAM – Just a Minute

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🚀 **VYUGAM 2.0 — Where Ideas Turn Into Innovation!** 💡

Ready to **CODE. THINK. DESIGN. PRESENT. CREATE.**?

P.A. College of Engineering and Technology presents **VYUGAM 2.0**, a **National Level Technical Symposium** bringing together tech enthusiasts, creative minds, problem solvers, and innovators under one roof! 🔥

🎯 **Strategic Vision | Intelligent Innovation**

🏆 **5 Exciting Events**
💻 Code Crusade — Coding Challenge
🧠 Logic Arena — Quiz Competition
🎨 UI/UX Studio — Design Challenge
📑 Tech Tactics — Paper Presentation
🎭 Pixel Pulse — Poster Design

📅 **24 September 2026**
📍 **IT Seminar Hall, P.A. College of Engineering and Technology, Pollachi**
🎟️ **FREE REGISTRATION**
🍱 Lunch & refreshments provided!

Whether you're a coding ninja, quiz master, designer, researcher, or creative thinker — **VYUGAM 2.0 has a challenge waiting for you!**

🔥 **Think beyond the ordinary. Compete with the best. Create something extraordinary.**

📲 **Scan the QR code and register now!**

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🔧 Technical Events
1. Veridex – Paper Presentation
2. 60 Second Engineer – Technical Quiz
3. Beyond Belief – Fables to Facts
4. Comphyst – Guess The Component
5. Protova – Project Expo

🎯 Non-Technical Events
6. Zapora – Rapid Fire
7. Brandora – Ad-Zap
8. Synqra – Connection
9. Sketchron – Technical Pictionary
10. Mimoza – Dumb Charades

🏆 TECHNICAL EVENTS
💡 Idea Ignite | 🎤 Tech Talk | 🤖 AI Prompt Master | 💻 Code Storm | 🐞 Bug Smash | 🛠️ Prototype Fest | 🧠 Byte Battle | 🔤 Word Matrix

🎭 NON-TECHNICAL EVENTS
🌟 Spotlight | 🎬 Clip Clash | 🎥 Click and Cut | 🎭 Mystery Mask
🎬 SYNOVA 1.0

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Short Film Competition

🌐 Theme

“Technology for a Better Tomorrow”

📜 Rules & Regulations

1. 👥 Team Size
Each team must consist of 4 students.

2. 🎥 Originality
The short film must be original and created entirely by the participating students.

3. 🎭 Student Participation
Students may take up roles such as acting, direction, cinematography, editing, and production.

4. 🌐 Theme
The film must be based on or clearly connected to the given theme: “Technology for a Better Tomorrow.”

5. 📱 Equipment
Mobile phones or cameras may be used for shooting the film.

6. ⏱️ Duration
The film must not exceed 5 minutes.

7. 🎵 Audio & Media
Only original or copyright-free music, images, and video clips may be used.

8. 🚫 Content Restrictions
Offensive, obscene, discriminatory, or politically sensitive content is strictly prohibited.

9. 🤖 AI & Animation
AI-generated content and fully animated films are not allowed. The film must be based on real, student-created video footage.

10. ❌ Previous Work
Films that have been previously published or submitted to another competition are not eligible.

11. 📥 Video Submission
All participating teams must submit their final short film in MP4 format to gvgsynova@gmail.com on or before September 21, 2026.

12. 📁 File Naming
The video file must be named in the following format:
CollegeName_TeamName_FilmTitle.mp4

13. ⚠️ Submission Responsibility
Teams must ensure that the submitted video is accessible and plays properly. Videos submitted after the deadline or in an inaccessible format may not be considered for screening.

14. 🖥️ Screening
The submitted films will be screened during the competition according to the schedule decided by the event coordinators.

15. ⚠️ Technical Responsibility
Teams are responsible for ensuring that their submitted video meets the required format, duration, and quality before submission. No changes or replacements will be permitted after the submission.

16. 🏆 Decision
The judges’ decision will be final and binding.

Technical Events
1. Paper Presentation
2. Startup Idea Pitching Contest
3. Mini Hackathon
4. Workshop – Tinkerer's Lab
5. Tech Quest
6.CAD Wars
7. Robo Race

Non-Technical Events
1. FreeFire Tournament
2. Prompt Engineering Challenge
3. Cricket Conquest – IPL Auction
4. Blind Fold Challenge
5. Photography
6. Logo Design
7. Pixel Facefest

🟠 Day 1
Pencil Drawing
Dumb Charades
Duet Dance
Mehndi
Poetry Writing
Solo Dance
Wealth From Waste
Classical Dance
Face Painting
Extempore
Adaptune
Photography
🔵 Day 2
Group Dance (Folk)
Group Song
Group Dance (Western)
Solo Song
Ad-Zap
Bridal Makeup
Mime
Instrumental Melody
Fashion Show
Team Parade

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.