The Government Model Engineering College, Thrikkakara, has announced the launch of online events of its National Techno Managerial Symposium Excel 2013. As part of the symposium, various online events in virtual stock market, puzzle solving, C-coding, artificial intelligence, basic electronics, photography and hacking would take place. Posters of the various online events published in social networking sites have caught the attention of visitors and traffic to www.excelmec.org is rising, said the organisers.
“The website has received 5,60,500 hits from September 1 to 14 and is expected to multiply once the online events gather steam,” said Sanjay Jacob Johny, coordinator for online events at Excel 2013.
Some of the general online events include ‘Kryptos’ which will witness participants solving complicated puzzles and connecting inconceivable clues and hints. ‘Dalal Bull’ is an online virtual stock market event incorporating real time stocks and virtual money. ‘Pixeluz’ is aimed at photography enthusiasts.
For engineering students, Excel 2013 offers other online events as well - ‘Hackmaster’, an online event consisting of different levels of problem-solving, mainly related to website hacking, password recovery, cryptography and steganography, ‘include’ an online coding event and ‘Web Bots’ which requires participants to program the Artificial Intelligence for simple ‘bots’. “The work on the website started in January and the team is happy with the results,” said Vishnu K, chairman of Excel 2013.