BHUBANESWAR: The Gandhi Institute for Education and Technology (GIET) celebrated its annual tech fest ‘Garimaa Xtreme 2K16’ and cultural festival ‘Sparkle 2K16’ on April 22 and 23.
Inaugurating the fest, VC of BPUT Dr Shyam Sundar Patnaik praised the innovative engineering models displayed by students in the fest and advised them to implement the models as real projects.
Director of AIIMS, Bhubaneswar Ashok Mohapatra advised the students to be laborious and honest towards social obligation in professional life. Students of GIET and other engineering colleges participated in the event and displayed their high tech engineering and robotic models.
Director, Institute of Physics Dr Sudhakar Panda, the chief guest on the second day, advised the students on research oriented curricula in engineering system.
Vice-Chancellor of Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT) Dr SN Pasupalak distributed prizes on the first day of ‘Sparkle-2K16’. Vice-Chairman of GIET JP Mishra, Director Dr B Pradhan, principal Dr Niranjan Sutar, vice-principal Dr Binayak Sahu, principal (diploma) Bikash Pattnaik, convenor JR Barik and other faculty members and staff were present.