EDGE’23: Techno India Salt Lake hosts science and tech fest

Techno India Salt Lake held its annual techno-management festival EDGE’23 on 12, 13 and 14 May 2023. It was organised by its official science & technology club, Geekonix. The 17-year-old fest was themed ‘Origins’ this year, which was accommodated across different pockets of the Techno India Main campus.

“It gives me immense joy to interact with the brilliant minds of this generation while conducting this fest over many years now. It creates a confluence of young intellects and a platform to germinate more new ideas by building an inter-campus space,” Prof. Dibyendu Banerjee, Teacher and Co-Convenor of Geekonix shared with Edugraph.

Over 500 participants registered for the 3-day inter-college fest, which hosted about 40 events. Eleven sub clubs from the college collaborated to organise the series of events in keeping with the interest areas of the clubs.

EDGE’23 concentrated on inventiveness with events like Robo Soccer-Robo War which had a setup of a range of challenging hurdles that participants had to cross with the help of a remote sensing robot. The entire set was done by the members of Robopalz Robotics Club using scrap material collected from the campus premises.

The fest also had electrifying gaming events like Valorant and Fifa, which were organised by the gaming club, Cyber Crusade. The participants praised the infrastructural arrangements of the events, which elevated the entire gaming experience. Day 1 concluded with the first-round qualifiers of all the competitive events and EDGE Nights. Comedians Appurv Gupta and Abhijit Ganguly put up an enjoyable standup show that elicited peals of laughter from the audience.

Day 2 saw the semi-finals of the events and inaugurated a photo exhibition curated by its photography club, Infocus. “EDGE is attempting to create a universal message that photography is about exploration and awareness of our surroundings. Competitions like this create a sense of harmony among students and we wanted to highlight the perspective of Calcutta’s veteran photographers where we can accumulate all the recent trends of photography by young photographers,” said Prof. Prithwiraj Pal, Faculty of Media Science Department and Advisor of Infocus. Day 2 ended with Bangla Rock music from the 1990s to the modern day. There was also digital storytelling of food by Mr Sidhartha Sankar Roy, aka Shidhu from Cactus and Mr Indrajit Lahiri, aka and founder of FoodKa, respectively.

The fest concluded on Day 3 with the final rounds of all the events. The winners were felicitated at the prize distribution ceremony, held in the evening, bringing EDGE’23 to a close for this year.