Pravah 08: Techno-Management Fest

Event: Pravah 08 (Website)

Organized By: National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur

Key Dates:
Fest: March 29-31, 2008

Quest ’08: Technical Fest

Event: Quest’08 (Website)

Organized By:
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, JNTU College of Engineering.

Key Dates:
Fest: March 5, 2008
Online Coding: March 3-4, 2008
Deadline for registration for Conundrum Explicare: March 5, 2008
Commencement of Hackorama: February 25, 2008

2008 Adobe Design Achievement Awards

Award: Adobe Design Achievement Award (Website)

Organised By: Adobe

Key Dates:
Deadline for Submission of Designs: May 2, 2008

Sun Tech Days: WorldWide Developer Conference

Event: Sun Tech Days (Website)

Organized By: Sun Microsystems

Venue: Hyderabad International Convention Center

Key Dates:
Event: February 27-29, 2008

IET Innovation Awards 2008

Event: IET Innovation Awards 2008 (Website)

Organized By: The Institution of Engineering and Technology Service Ltd

Key Dates:
Deadline for submission of entries: June 30, 2008
Entry Period closes by: July 25, 2008

SAE International

SAE International (Website)

SAE International is a non profit educational and scientific organization dedicated to advancing mobility technology to better serve humanity. SAE International has more than 90,000 members – engineers, business executives, educators, and students from more than 97 countries – who share information and exchange ideas for advancing the engineering of mobility systems. SAE is your one-stop resource for standards development, events, and technical information and expertise used in designing, building, maintaining, and operating self-propelled vehicles for use on land or sea, in air or space.

The various Affiliate Organizations are PAMA, Performance Review Institute, SAE Foundation, SAE BRASIL, SAE INDIA, SAE UK, SAE Institute.

Synapse’08: Techno-Cultural Fest

Event: Synapse 2008 (Website)

Organised By: DA-IICT, Gandhinagar

Key dates:
Fest: February 29- March2, 2008

Infotsav ’08: Techno-Management Fest

Event: Infotsav ’08 (Website)

Organised By: ABV-IIITM, Gwalior

Key Dates:
Fest: March 11-13, 2008
Deadline for Paper Submission for Sameeksha: March 3,2008
Deadline for submission of Executive summary for Pioneer: March 2,2008
Deadline for submission of B-Plan: March 6,2008

A2Z Scholarships: Student Initiative

Resource: A2ZScholarships.com (Website)

http://www.A2ZScholarships.com is an initiative by students of the Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI), who have put together a directory of scholarships on offer from around the world.

The website has been put together by over 200 students, mostly hostelites at the Matunga-based engineering institute. Currently, the site provides details on almost 500 scholarships for various disciplines.

All-Asian Intervarsity Debating Championships

Competition: All-Asian Intervarsity Debating Championships (‘All-Asians’) (Website)

Hosted by: North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Key dates:
Deadline for first phase of registration: March 31, 2008
Tournament – May 9 – 16, 2008

The Sir John M. Templeton Fellowships Essay Contest

Contest: The Sir John M. Templeton Fellowships Essay Contest (Website)

Organised by: The John Templeton Foundation and The Independent Institute.

Key Dates:
May 1, 2008 – Deadline for submission.
October 2008 – Announcement of Winners.

Mensa India: IQ Society

Opportunity: Membership to Mensa India (Website)

Mensa was founded in England in 1946 by Roland Berrill, a barrister, and Dr Lance Ware, a scientist and lawyer. They had the idea of forming a society for bright people, the only qualification for membership of which was a high IQ. The original aims were, as they are today, to create a society that is non-political and free from all racial or religious distinctions. The society welcomes people from every walk of life whose IQ is in the top 2% of the population, with the objective of enjoying each other’s company and participating in a wide range of social and cultural activities.

Mensa has three stated purposes: to identify and foster human intelligence for the benefit of humanity, to encourage research in the nature, characteristics and uses of intelligence, and to promote stimulating intellectual and social opportunities for its members. Today there are some 100,000 Mensans in 100 countries throughout the world.

AIESEC Internships Abroad

Opportunity: AIESEC Internships (Website)

AIESEC, the world’s largest student organization, is the international platform for young people to discover and develop their potential so as to have a positive impact on society. In addition to providing over 5,000 leadership positions and delivering over 350 conferences to our membership of over 22,000 students, AIESEC also runs an exchange program that enables over 4,000 students and recent graduates the opportunity to live and work in another country.

iVolunteer: Volunteering Opportunities

Opportunity: iVolunteer (Website)

iVolunteer is an initiative of MITRA that is working to create a volunteering movement in India. iVolunteer sees its role as that of a catalyst, which will create happy volunteering experiences for both volunteers and non-profits and these happy experiences will help create volunteering movement in India. In order to create these happy experiences iVolunteer is working through its Volunteer Centres and Non-profit partners to a create a volunteering infrastructure that will reduce the time and cost of recruiting volunteers and there by making it easier volunteers to make a difference in their local community.

Adex ’08: Annual Design Exposition

Event: Adex ’08 (Website)

Organized By: Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Key Dates:
Fest: March 30-April 01, 2008

Avake Technology Group Internships

Program: Avake Technology Group Internship  programme (Website)

Offered By: Avake Technology Group.

Key Dates:
Applications are accepted year – round.
The internship period is between January and April.

Hindustan Unilever Shakti Internship Program

Program: Shakti Internship Program (Website)

Organised By: Hindustan Unilever

Cognizance ’08: Technical Fest, IIT Roorkee

Event: Cognizance ’08 (Website)

Organised By: Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee

Key Dates:
Fest: March 28-30, 2008
Submission of Executive Summary for Corpostrat’08: February 20,2008
Submission of Business Plan: March 8,2008

Sun Grand Challenge

Event: Sun Grand Challenge (Website)

Organized By:
Sun Club, DA-IICT

Key Dates: (Contest Calendar)
OpenOffice: Feb 20-22
Java: Feb 23-25
Googleable contest on Sun SPOTS: Feb 26-28
Sun Studio: Feb 29-Mar 2
OpenSolaris: Mar 3-5
Apache Derby: Mar 6-8
OpenPortal: Mar 9-11
Netbeans: Mar 2-14
Project Glassfish: Mar 15-17
Googleable contest on JavaFX and Jruby: Mar 18-20

IIT Bombay – Research Fellowship & Summer Internship Scheme

Program: Research Fellowship & Summer Internship Schemes, IIT-B (Website)

Organized By: Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Key Dates:
Application Deadline: March 20, 2008
List of Shortlisted candidates: First week of April 2008
Tentative dates of interview: Fourth week of April 2008