Mangalore : ‘Anveeksha’ a national level paper presentation programme was organized by IT section of AIMIT, St Aloysius College, Beeri recently.

Mr Neil Rodrigues, Project Manager , Infosys Technologies participated as the Chief Guest and Rev. Dr. Melwin D’Cunha Sj, head, Science Research section of St Aloysius College presided over the function.

Highlighting the changes Mr Neil Rodrigues explained how even “click the button’ has become obsolete in the minds of  the present generation of students, who are exposed to iPhone, iTablet and all the gizmos of the day.  He said it is not enough to search the web for information, but one needs to cultivate the ability to go beyond the information that is available and become creative and innovative.

Fr Denzil Lobo SJ, Director, AIMIT, spoke of the advances in technology that are  taking place. Mentioning especially the developments in the communication technology, from Bell telephone to the present Blackberry, he said all these innovative devices have been possible due to the creativity of the inventors.
 
Presiding over the event, Fr Melwin D’Cunha, stressed the use of imagination and thinking and reasoning in imparting education. He also spoke about the work culture and told the students gathered not to over work and become dull, instead to concentrate on one task at a time and finish it well.

There were a total of 11 colleges which participated in the four tracks like Networking, Database and Web Technologies, Advance computing and Life science and a total of 39 papers were  presented during the day .
 
Prof.Praveen Desai from Manipal University delivered the keynote address for the Web Technologies and Database stream, while Mr. Demian Antony D’Mello from St. Josephs Engineering College Mangalore for the Networking stream; Dr. Manjaiah  D.H. From Mangalore University for the Advanced Computing stream and Mrs. Reena B spoke for the Life Sciences stream.

Fr Francis Almedia SJ, Vice Principal, St Aloysius College was the chief guest for the valedictory function and shared his insights with the students gathered. Mrs Lavina D’Costa, Faculty coordinator welcomed the gathering and Prof. Santhosh Rebello proposed the vote of thanks.

Sudeep Manohar and Sadanand MP of Jawaharlal Nehru National college of Engineering Shimoga bagged the first place in Networks, while Chaitra Rao and Ganesh Prasad of  Srinivas Institute Of Technology Mangalore scored second.

Sumathi Kini ofAIMIT , St Aloysisu College was first in Advanced Computing while Aishwarya and  Pooja of  Channabasaveshwara Institute Of Technology, Tumkur secured second.

Jitendra Kumar Gupta of AIMIT secured first in Life Science, when Priya and Lobsang of St. Aloysius College Mangalore was second.

P. Bavithra Matharaii of MCC was first in Web Technologies and Database and Chrysil Nonis and  Ashwini Bhat of AIMIT secured second place.