Timed Out: The event was organized under the Computex category in NLH. Over 33 teams competed to showcase their coding skills and logic in the 1st round. The participants were given four logical coding questions in the first round whose codes were to be written within a given duration of time. 18 teams with one or more correct answers qualified for the next round. Subsequently seven rounds were held. The participants to survive till last and win the 1st position and the runner-up title were the Tech Sec of MIT and Tech Sec of IE-CSE respectively. No wonders! The winners are expected to get a cash prize as well.
The Final Round for Quiz-o-Clue, COMPUTEX category for IEEE’s Techweekend was conducted at NLH from 2 pm onwards. The final round consisted of 6 teams consisting of2 members per team, even Girish and me (Ali) were there as finalists. The quiz was of a slightly higher difficulty than the prelim round. There were different rounds first was trivia, then audio, then visual and then rapid fire.
The question of each round were quite good relating to the current Information Technology world and Computing Scenario. The audio clips consisted of sounds such as a Dial-Up Modem to Samsung Mobile Tune. The visual round had question in which we had to identify logos, company CEOs etc. the quiz was very interactive even the audience loved answering, not to mention that they got free Dominos coupons for correct answers. The quiz attracted a lot of enthusiasm from MITians as everyone here loves technology and all things electronic.
Round two of Einstein Freeze (Plinth) kicked off on day 3 of the IEEE Techweekend. The Event was held at 6:00 in the evening. Four teams which cleared round 1 were there for round two. The teams were given nine chemicals of which three were known and rest unknown. The teams were expected to identify the unknown chemicals using the known ones as well as the odor and pH strips which were supplied to them. One could see the tension on the faces of the participants as they tried and crossed out combinations to arrive at a suitable guess, all in one hour’s time. After the event, chemistry never felt this good.
WAVE SHAPER:The second round of wave shaper was conducted on 4th February from 2 pm to 3:30 pm in ECD lab
5 teams of 2 members each that cleared the first round were eligible for taking part in this round. They were assigned 2 tasks. The first was to create an output waveform of a half rectified and clipped wave.However, only 1 team managed to get the proper output. The final one was based on instrumentation amplifier and the top 3 were selected based on the circuit the participants had designed for the same.
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