Pragyan
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| Type | Student-run non-profit festival |
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| Founded | 2005 |
| Place | Tiruchirappalli, India |
| Institute | NIT Trichy |
| Major events | Coding, robotics, management, paper presentation, guest lectures, infotainment, core engineering, exhibitions, workshops |
| Prize money | ₹14,00,000 |
| Slogan | Let's Celebrate Technology |
| Website | www |
Pragyan is the annual techno-management festival of the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli. Since its inception in 2005, it has been held every year over a period of three and a half days during either the month of January or February. Every year, participants from a number of colleges across the country take part in the various events in Pragyan, making it is the largest techno-management fest in India. It is also the first student-run organization in the world and the third overall next only to London Olympics and Manchester United to get an ISO 20121:2012 Certification for Sustainable Event Management.
In 2005, the staff and students collaborated to create Pragyan as a technical festival attracting innovation from across the state. Pragyan has since expanded to include teams from over 60 countries taking part in the online programming contests. In recent years, up to 700 volunteers have worked in hosting the event.
The events in Pragyan have traditionally been broadly divided into clusters. Initially starting with eight clusters, in 2016, two more clusters were added.
Each year the festival features lectures from several guest speakers.
The 2015 edition saw the introduction of 'Divergent', an inspirational talk series by youngsters who have made a marked contribution to the society. The speakers at the 2015 edition included Roman Saini, Vishnu Nair, Ajit Narayanan and Kartheeban.
In the 2016 edition, the alma mater of NITT were called to participate in Alumni Crossfire in which they debated on whether the NIT of the 70s, 80s, 90s or the 2000s which gave had the best experience.
Crossfire is a panel discussion event held during the festival. Crossfire aims to provide a global platform for the academia, industry and government to interact with the student fraternity.
Workshops that test and hone the skills of the participants have been an integral part of the festival since 2007.
A number of exhibits are hosted during the festival each year.
Sangam is an exclusive intra-NITT technical contest involving the display of models and solutions developed by students from various departments. This event, which is held on all four days of Pragyan, provides a platform to students to implement their innovative ideas and earn recognition for the same from other participants, academicians, technocrats and industrialists.
Since its inception in 2008, the Infotainment event of the festival has provided entertainment across genres that include acrobatics, dance, beatboxing, illusion, light shows and comedy.
Pragyan is a non-profit event run entirely by students of the institute. The festival has been associated with a number of corporate sponsors in the past, including Tata Steel, Texas Instruments, State Bank of India, Google, Pepsi, Marrybrown, Indian Oil Corporation, McAfee, National Instruments, Larsen & Toubro and Honeywell. For 2017 edition of Pragyan, the principal sponsors were MRF Tyres, Intel Corp and National Instruments.
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