FootPrints X5

FootPrints is Gujarat’s largest 3 day National Level Technical Festival, which had its dawn a decade ago. Over the 14 years since its inception, in 2001 by Sir Narayan Murthy, it has been rising in colossal proportions from a mere paper presentation comprising of 30 participants in Footprints'01 to FOOTPRINTS’14 that comprised of myriad competitions, workshops and seminars from the most incurred celebrities, having 21000 participants from all around the country. FOOTPRINTS have strived to nurture and enlighten the engineering minds of the country and have thereby earned the repute of an avant-garde technical fiesta.
FootPrints X2 witnessed exceptional tech and non tech events, tantalizing seminars and engaging workshops by virtuosos that included prof Chris Phillips from Imperial college of London, Nobel laureate Sir Harold Kroto, Prof pradeep Srivastava regarded as the father of scientoonics and prof Sugata Mitra, the inspiration behind the Oscar winning movie ‘Slumdog millionaire’ and a rocking concert night.
FootPrints X3 was evidence of stars on earth with amazing string of technical events surpassing the galaxy and with enthralling participation. Also with amazing speakers such as Jeff Lieberman- host of famous TV show Time Warp on Discovery channel, Prof. J N Goswami also known as moon-man of India, Amish Tripathi-author of Shiva trilogy and Dr. D.P.Kothari famous author of Electrical
Power Systems and Breath breaking performance by Anushka Manchanda.

FootPrints X4 gave magnetic series of mindboggling technical events and took the existing events to greater heights. It helped crowd to quench their thirst for technical knowledge through techzibition – a zone of technical exhibition. Humanoid robot,IRB 144 by ABB robotics,3D printers,Genibo robodog, swarm quadcopter were few of the exhibits. It also witnessed Mr. Andrew Newton - one of world’s most renowned hypnotist, demonstrate and speak about mass hypnotism , Mr. Kailash Katkar- Founder & Ceo of Quickheal technologies, Dr. M .Annadurai – Program Director Mars Orbital Mission, Dr. Abhas Mitra – Dean , Astrophysics dept. BARC . It gave a thrust to entertainment and fun elements with Live BMX show, Camp fire and jamming sessions. FootPrintsX4 actively carried out its awareness campaigns and upliftment works Under “ Say No To Plastic” campaign, it successfully attempted for World record of Largest paper Bag. FootPrintsX4 ended on high note with the electrifying performance by Bollywood music sensation Shilpa Rao.

It’s been a thrilling journey of Innovation and Experience which is something beyond imagination.

Legacy continues this February with FOOTPRINTS X5 living up your dream and witness the passion of being think BEYOND!!

This Year Footprints Has An Array Of Technical Events For Various Engineering Branches:
Macheanema: For Mechanical/Metal Dept.
Cybernetics: For Comp/It Dept.
Rasayanam: For Chemical/Pharmacy Dept.
Sanganikee: For Electrical/Electronics Dept.
Citadel: For Civil/Iwm Dept.
Lycra: For Textile Dept.
The Fest Also Has Plethora Of Non Technical Events,Virtuosity-The Gaming Zone, Rolling Squares- The Entertainment Night & Fse- Footprints Stock Exchange.

workshops :

1. RC Ornithopter : An ornithopter is a birdlike machine that generates lift and thrust by flapping its wing.Ornithopter workshop will make you learn about bird flight in an interesting way by actually building one.In this workshop, participants understands how birds fly and how to mechanically duplicate the bird flight.
The workshop will be conducted by Avian Aerospace.

2. Mobile making :Workshop will cover topics on electronics and communication, programming and hardware assembly. At the end of workshop teams can take home a working mobile phone, which could perform basic operation such as calling and messaging.

3. Phone gap :PhoneGap is an open source solution for building cross-platform mobile apps with standards-based Web technologies like HTML, JavaScript, CSS

Kaleidoscope X5:

Guest lectures

1. Roy zaltsman (the mentalist)
He is a psychological entertainer, a master performer with thousands of fascinating performances to his credit and can command the attention of any audience with his mesmerizing abilities.

2. Jakob van zyl
He is an associate director of NASA and the man behind curiosity mission to mars, the only autonomous vehicle on mars.
He is the member of NASA JPL -jet propulsion laboratory

3. Marshall strabala
Chief architect of burj khalifa and shanghai towers. He is the architect of 3 of the top 10 tallest structure of the world

4. Satyajit bhatkar
He is the director of popular tv show satyamev jayate. He was in the core production team of laggan and author of best seller the spirit of lagaan. he is also renowned Tedx speaker

5. Mark Shaw
He is a ted speaker and also the CEO of ultra tech ever dry.

6. Devdutta chandravarkar
He is the vice president and member of board of management Mercedes Benz India. He is an expert in the field of German automation. He has been with Mercedes Benz since 1995 in India and Germany

15 February 2015

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Faculty of technology and engineering, M S University, Vadodara
Opp. Kalabhavan Maidan
Dandia Bazaar
Vadodara- 390001
Gujarat

Vrundavan Residency,
Dandiya Bajar,
Vadodara