Faculty Advisor : Prof. G R C Reddy

Faculty Co-advisor : Dr. P S Reddy

President : Ms. Priya Singh

Vice President : Mr. G Nithin Kumar

Treasurer : Mr. Shaik Basharath

Secretary : Mr. Kodali Samuel Prajwal

Vice Secretary : Mr. Leevin Laji Mathews

Event Co-ordinator : Mr. Nithin Lakshmisha

Membership Co-ordinator : Mr. Srikanth Polakanti

SPIE Student Chapter, NIT Goa

The Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, known as SPIE opened its Student Chapter at NIT Goa to promote research and disseminate knowledge in the field of Optical Engineering. The Chapter is encouraging students to be a part of SPIE by acquainting them with the ideas and objectives of SPIE.

The SPIE Students chapter NIT Goa conducted its first event for the year 2015-

2016 during 7-9 August 2015 which consisted of technical workshop on “Three

day STTP on Recent Trends in Artificial Intelligence for Big Data” and

competitions as follows

International Year of Light celebrations throughout the year

Quiz

Mathematical Quiz

Just a minute

Essay writing and

Project presentations

Group Discussions

Technical talk

Futuristic Research analysis

Student participants answering the listening ability and virtual test

Participants of Quiz competition during Round 1

The chapter also conducted a two day grand event during 4-6

September 2015 as “Celebration of the International Year of Light

2015” which consisted of guest lectures for the undergraduate students

of NIT Goa, motivating talks by eminent speakers for the school students

across Goa, Quiz competition for the school students in Ponda, Goa,

along with competitions and project exhibitions.

Participants of Mathematics Quiz

IYL Celebration Photos

SPIE – Activities during January

In the month of January 2016, 22nd – 23rd below list of competitions were conducted with an aim to ameliorate the problem solving, thinking, visualizing abilities of students.

The following are the list of competitions:

Mathematica (A Competition testing the mathematical skills)

General Quiz (A Competition testing the General Knowledge)

Techniques (A current technology related quiz competition)

Conundrum (A Logical and riddle solving ability test)

Mind Game (Testing Concentration, thinking and memory abilities)

A Participant of Conundrum answering the round 1 written test

Basharath explaining the Story Round of Mind Game competition

Participants of General Quiz

Students answering the audio video round of Quiz

Activities under the SPIE Education

Outreach:

LMTX Session:

In November 2015, the student volunteers of SPIE Student chapter NIT Goa

conducted Laser Mission TenX half day workshop at Azmane High School,

Neura. The objective of this workshop to encourage and motivate the students

towards science and technology. The session was for a duration of 3 hours

consisting of:

1. An interactive session by Mr.Pankaj Velip on ‘Robotics’ which included

introduction of the topic, with examples and demonstration of the robots

made by undergraduate students.

2. A demonstrative session by Mr. Shubham Sharma and Mr. Nikhil Choudhary

on ‘Project on Tesla Coil’ which had been a project work in the institute. The

introduction and explanation of the project was delivered to the students.

3. It followed by an activity round by Ms. Priya Singh which involved the

students with an ideas session along with fun game on Science and

Technology.

It was an enriching session for around 100 students from standard 6 to

standard 9. These students were well exposed to the recent works to motivate

them to take up Science and Technology as a career.

Pankaj Velip explaining Application of Robotics

Q & A session by Nikhil Choudhary and Pankaj Velip

Ideas Activity session by Priya Singh with the students

Demonstrative session by Mr. Shubham Sharma on Tesla Coil

Description of different projects done by undergraduate students

Young Sparks 2016:

Young Sparks 2016, a one day science and technology event consisting of

talks, launching of the Rashtriya Avishkar programme and the final round of

‘All Goa Science and technology Quiz’ was conducted on 25 January 2016 by

the SPIE Students chapter of NIT Goa. The one day event consisted of

launching of the ‘Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan’, technical talks and the final

round of the ‘ALL GOA SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY QUIZ’.

The idea behind RAA is to help promote enquiry-based learning in schools. The

RAA mission was launched by state education Secretary Virendra Kumar and

Director of State council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT), Mr.

Nagaraj Honnekeri. It was followed by the technical talks for the 8 and 9 grade

students. The speakers for the talks were Mr. Prajyot Mainkar, founder of

ANDROCID Media Pvt. Ltd and Mr. Pranav Pai Vernekar, founder of

Inventron Robotics. The session was about how android software is made and

demonstrated how text messages and calls are sent via android phone. This

exposed the students to core technology.

The quiz session was divided into two rounds, one was the written screening

test conducted in the morning half and the second was the final oral round

hosted by famous Quizmaster Mr. Wilson Vaz. For the quiz, we sent an

invitation to all the 395 high schools across Goa and for the preliminary round

of the quiz, we got an overwhelming response from the schools. Around 1500

students from standard 8th and 9th from different schools across Goa

participated in it which was held on 21 December 2015 in the schools. The

winners of the final round were students of Jawaharlal Navodaya Vidyalaya.

The runners up were Vidya Vikas Academy. The overall one day event proved

successful in reaching out to around 2000 school students across the state of

Goa through the Quiz event as well as the talks.

Launching of the RAA programme by the dignitaries including President, SPIE NIT Goa

Final round of the quiz by Mr. Wilson Vaz

Winners, runners up of the ‘ALL GOA SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY QUIZ’

Hon’ble Director of NIT Goa delivering speech on the occasion

DR. Velvan Kathirvelu delivering speech

DR. Saidi P Reddy giving away the prize to runners up.

Financial Statement

Chapter Bank Account Details:

Name of the Account: The Director NIT Goa and President SPIE

Account Number: SB/01/001892, IFSC Code: CORP0001328,

MICRCode: 403017045, Corporation Bank, Farmagudi Branch, Ponda,

Goa-403401

Deposits: From 02 August 2015 to 31 March 2016

S.NO Details Deposit (in Rs)

Date

1. Opening Balance 3,59,087.72 Including IYL

Grant of Rs.2,19,600.00

02/08/2015

2. Educational Outreach Grant

Received from SPIE

2,14,456.00 01/09/2015

3. Interest 6,853.00 02/02/2016

Total Deposits 5,80,396.72

Total Activities Expenditure ( 3,19,600.00 )

Closing Balance as on 31.03.2016 2,60,796.72 31/03/2016

Activities Head wise Expenditure Statement: From 02 August 2015 to 31 March 2016

Sr. No Activities Head Expenditure

1 Chapter Activities ( IYL Grant Activities) 2,19,600.00

2 Educational Outreach Grant activities 1,00,000.00

Total as on date 31/03/2016 3,19,600.00

1. Expenditure of International Year of Light Grant

IYL Grant amount Received Rs.2, 19,600/- (Expenditure Details)

Sr. No Expenditure Head Amount Total Amount

1

Printing & Stationery

82604

T shirts 25937

Certificates and Id cards 7057

Pens, Xerox, Banners, Water bottles 16747

Stationary 32863

2

Boarding & Lodging

40878 Break fast 14244

Lunch 24870

snacks 1764

3 Traveling Exp.

1700

petrol 1700

4 Event Organizing Exp.

69000

Prizes for winners 69000

5 Misce. Exp 25418 25418

Total Activity Expenditure Amount Rs.

2,19,600

2. Education Out Reach Grant

Education Out Reach Grant amount Received 2,14,456/-

(Expenditure Details)

Expenditure till 31 March 2016 is 1,00,037/- and remaining money (1,14,456/-) will

be spent by August 2016

Sr. No Expenditure Head Bill No. Date Amount

Total Amount

Printing & Stationary

1

Purohit Agencies 3639 23/01/2016 4126.00

61731.00

Purohit Agencies 3645 22/01/2016 25.00

Akash Publishing Group 1102 03/09/2015 27260.00

Prabhu Image Printing and Designing 9128 25/01/2016 1932.00

Raj papers and stationers 185 15/12/2015 60.00

Choudhary Enterprises 1443 23/01/2016 2160.00

College camp 4848 24/01/2016 50.00

Kerkars Gift gallery 3247 23/01/2016 3000.00

College Camp 4850 24/01/2016 1220.00

Shree Nath Xerox 4971 24/01/2016 150.00

Print zone 9563 22/01/2016 2248.00

College camp 1113 23/01/2016 70.00

Leena Sports stores(Trophies) 2181 24/01/2016 2100.00

Prabhu Image Printing and design 9122 23/01/2016 1654.00

Shree Nath Xerox 1623 10/10/2015 1930.00

Classic Business centre 16173 30/11/2015 8600.00

Shreenath Xerox 573 2/12/2015 1590.00

Paradise Stationaries & Xerox 430 17/12/2015 540.00

Shree Nath Xerox 769 15/12/2015 1400.00

College Camp 298 10/102015 1395.00

Raj Papers and Stationers 199 16/12/2015 221.00

2

Traveling Exp.

900.00

M.S.Kavlekar Petroleum. 845 27/01/2016 100.00

M.S.Kavlekar Petroleum. 957 26/02/2016 100.00

M.S.Kavlekar Petroleum. 834 1/02/2016 100.00

M/s . Sinari Auto service 22766 7/03/2016 100.00

M.S.Kavlekar Petroleum. 29312 24/01/2016 100.00

M.S.Kavlekar Petroleum. 97 23/01/2016 100.00

M.S.Kavlekar Petroleum. 409 16/01/2016 100.00

M.S.Kavlekar Petroleum. 410 16/01/2016 100.00

M.S.Kavlekar Petroleum. 898 18/01/2016 100.00

3 Event OrganizingExp. 33,906.00

(posting, venue, food)

Kamakshi Leela Caterers 14 06/02/2016 220.00

Navtara Patto plaza 172 21/01/2016 550.00

Lucky General Stores 23 12/12/2015 220.00

Monginis Cake shop 17579 28/12/2015 3800.00

Niranjan Ponda goa 1186 12/12/2016 300.00

Sai Hospitality 630 29/01/2016 19200.00

Purohit Agencies 3655 24/01/2016 175.00

Hadarali Flower decorator 1769 24/01/2016 600.00

Hotel Annapurna 2323 16/08/2015 750

Hotel Annapurna 2441 11/08/2015 841

Tao Panaji Goa 12 11/12/2015 1498.00

Utkarsh Traders 3901 23/01/2016 35.00

India Post 111 17/12/2015 2017

Sai Sound 468 24/01/2016 2500.00

Lamart Ponda store 59501 23/01/2016 1200.00

4

Misce. Exp

3,500.00

Mini magiln 102 17/02/2016 2000.00

Savour Ponda Goa 02 28/10/2015 1000.00

Hadarali Flower decorator 4651 25/01/2016 500.00

Total Expenditure 100,037

Amount To be spent by August 2016 1,14,456/-

Note:- Total education outreach expenditure was Rs.100,037/- but restricted to Rs.100,000/- only.

Closing balance of the NIT Goa SPIE Student Chapter as on 31/03/2016 as

Bank Account: Rs. 2,60,796.72

The financial statement contains the totals of the expenditure under various

subheads. Details of expenditures are available with the chapter along with the

bills and payment vouchers.

(Shaik Basharath) (Priya Singh)

Treasurer President