Amity Youth Fest 2024: Amity University Noida witnesses exuberant cultural extravaganza!

Amity Youth Fest-2024 was held from February 29 to March 1, 2024 at Amity University, Noida Campus and concluded with a stellar performance by renowned Rapper 'Raftaar', who performed in the presence of a jam-packed audience and left them spellbound with his scintillating performance.

"Amity is extremely proud of its students, who enthusiastically organize the fest every year. Students must continuously keep improving themselves to become great leaders. Also, being passionate and following your passion with complete focus and dedication can make one successful in any field," said Dr Atul Chauhan, Chancellor of Amity University, Uttar Pradesh.

Addressing the students at the inaugural session of the fest, Abhishek Singh, IAS, Actor, Social Entrepreneur and founder of SIGMA, United By Blood urged students to become social influencers and work for society rather than becoming social media influencers.

"In today’s era of India’s unprecedented development, Social Entrepreneurship Models will take the country forward and make it the best nation in the world. Most of the time, student do not have clarity about their goals and what they want to become in life. Also, it is not necessary to have only one profession, rather one can choose more than one profession and become good at each one of them," said Singh.

During the two-day Fest, more than 60 Technical and Cultural Competitions were held, witnessing the participation of more than 600 teams and 2500 students from various universities/colleges including Delhi University (DU), Symbiosis University, UPES Dehradun, BITS Pilani, BITS Dubai, Narsee Monjee University, SRM University, Sonipat, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) among others.

"During the two days of Amity Youth Fest-2024, the Amity campus was buzzing with excitement enthusiasm and vibrancy. NEP-2020 has provided a new dimension to education through innovation and creativity. The youth is the future of the country, and they must work towards achieving the goal of Viksit Bharat by 2047," said Prof (Dr) Balvinder Shukla, Vice Chancellor, Amity University, Uttar Pradesh.

The Technical Competitions included the 'KREATIV’24', Fashion Show Competition by the Amity School of Fashion Technology, a Poster Making Competition by the Amity School of Fine Arts, 'Food Hackathon' by the Amity Institute of Food Technology, 'Civileer', 'AI Warfare Arena', 'Circuitism', by Amity School of Engineering & Technology.

The cultural competitions included 'Nrityarsh', a solo Indian dance competition, in which a total of 11 participants from JNU, Delhi University, Sharda University etc participated and presented classical dance forms Kathak, Bharatanatyam, and others. In addition, 'Oscillation', a group western dance competition, 'Rangrez', a folk-dance competition, 'Reverberate', a solo western singing competition, and many other engaging events were also organized.

During the second day of AYF-2024, “Quad Mania” Drone Competition by Amity Institute of Aerospace Engineering was organized, wherein 7 teams from SRM, IET and Parul University and other institutions participated. In addition, Indian Culinary Challenge competition on the theme and 'Great Food of India' was organized by Amity School of Hospitality in which 18 teams from various institutions participated and prepared different cuisines.