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Title of the Practice

Online Competition: A fertile ground to improve Learning Process

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Goal

The objective of activities performed through various ACM DBIT is: participative decision making students view in development philosophy of learning by doing participating in the institutional development sensitizing the personal development and responsibility handling creating an environment which is conducive to self development team building & developing we feeling Generating awareness for Technical Issues. Students are the agents of change.

The Students get to 1. Apply the concepts learned in the course, learning by doing. creativity and innovations which helps in enhancing the logical, analytical and computing skills of the students. 2. Learn skills not a explicit part of curriculumm like leadership, building confidence and inducing a lot of fun. The objective of this competition was to unleash the technical as well as creative genius within the students, providing them a common platform to test and showcase their skills.

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The Context

Hosting a Technical festival is difficult, because of the short time in the semester. So a Online Technical Festival opens up new avenue in Technical Education. Where th eOrganizing team gets to implement and learn the Technologies and excersire the soft skills which are a requirement of the workplace. Experimentation and practical work, which are usually accomplished in a laboratory, are the basics of technological fields. Laboratory activities enable students to acquire paradigms, Testing skills, Programming experience, knowledge, and project experience, in conditions similar to their future professional activities. Online Competition opens new possibilities in educational methods. Teknack is a platform for students to become smart professionals. Teknack encourage the spirit of competitiveness and accelerate learning through extra- curricular activities. Events like this will help students to foster problem solving and algorithmic thinking abilities. 4. The Practice

The Department of Computer Engineering and the ACM Student body host a Online Technical Dfestival known as TEKNACK. Teknack consist of Teams of Studenst and Faculty working on Software modules which include programming and designing. The Entire event is available online to the registererd members, The hosting of the event involves a lot of programming, hosting of the web servers , a complete development of the online platform with 12 to 14 software modules of high complexity, its algorithmic development and coding and testing and deployment.

It avoids lot expenses on publicity, as publicity is done online, students are not required to be on campus, they are free to use internet for problem solving There were 13 events in Teknack as listed below: 1. Programming C++, Java 2. 3-D Model Creation 3. Website design (Non-Server based) 4. Google It 5. Tech Quiz 6. Swirls (Graphic designs with swirl patterns) 7. Animated Advertisement 8. Acoustica (DJ competition) 9. T-Shirt designing 10. Comic Strip (create new Avatars and make a technical comic strip) 11. Product Marketing (advertising any given product) 12. Innovative Ideas 13.Surprise games Teknack featured a wide range of 13 events catering to the tastes of every kind of audience. TEKNACK received a humongous response with a whopping 624+ registrations from different colleges across Mumbai. The theme for Teknack 2012 was Going Green. It was chosen to raise awareness about destruction of the environment. Websites design, complete with dierentbackgrounds at dawn, dusk and night and an image of the earth rotating re_ected the save the Environment theme. 5. Evidence of Success

Don Bosco Institute of Technology is among the few colleges to conduct an online inter college technical festival. The website received a huge response which can be analysed by viewing the statistics given below: The following are details of the no of hits that the website received: url: http://teknack.co.in/

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Fig 1. Statistical usage of website The Website was also viewed by people all over the world. The statistics is shown below:

Fig 2: Usage statistic of TEKNACK website country wise There has been a lot of buzz around the Engineering institutions in Mumbai, and the web Site Was viewed across the globe, giving a immediate publicity to the institutions of DBIT The ACM body, the group of the students got a very rich experience in designing , Developing and conducting an online Tech Fest. 6. Problems Encountered and Resources Required

The event received accolades from several participants who tremendously enjoyed the thrill of trading stocks and building virtual portfolio. Such was the amount of participation in the event that at one point the website was forced to go offline due to heavy network traffic. The festival was live for 48 hours, the Monitoring team had to had sleepless nights , and restoring the Fest was very challenging, giving the Students an opportunity to exercise Leadership , inculcating a sense of responsibility. 7. Notes

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Contact Details

Name of the Vice Chancellor / Principal / Director: Dr .N.G.Joag/Rev Fr. Adolph Name of the Institution: Don Bosco Institute of Technology Address: Opp Kohinoor Mall, Kurla(w) , Mumbai -70

City: Mumbai Pin Code: 400 070 State: Maharshtra Accredited Status: Applied Work Phone with STD Code: 022- 25040508 Fax: Website: www.dbit.in E-mail: