SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

MID-SEM REPORT ON CLUB ACTIVITIES

AUGUST – SEPTEMBER, 2016

SONIA KUMAR
SSETU
Dean of Students Office (DSO)
To bring an inter-disciplinary approach to all students’ activities and to have unified activity clubs involving
students from across all programs, formation of common clubs was planned. As a paradigm shift, for the
first time, in the current academic year, senior students were invited to form clubs as per their interests.

Before the university re-opened after the summer break, nearly 30 proposals were received. Finally
clubbing together similar activities, ten clubs were formed.

SERIAL NO. NAME OF CLUB

1 Social Service Forum
2 Fitness Club
3 Dance Club
4 Finance and Business Club
5 Theater Club
6 Photography Club
7 Music Club
Club Structure
Each club is managed and run by students.
They select a secretary and a joint
secretary. They are assigned a faculty
mentor.
All club activities are held on either
Saturdays or Wednesday afternoons.

8 Literary Club The activities are overseen and

9 Fine Arts monitored by AUSEAC, DSO.
10 Quiz Club
During the week-long Orientation program in the last week of July, student volunteers were assigned the
task of engaging freshers by demonstrating respective club activities. Each club was allotted a room to
showcase its activities. Freshers were escorted by student volunteers to visit each room in groups of 35
each. This way all freshers got a chance to get a glimpse of what each club stood for. They were free to
register on-the-spot for membership to the clubs of their choice.

Apart from on-the-spot registrations, registrations from all students were accepted through Google doc.
too. Total 1201 responses were received. Each student is eligible to register in maximum of 3 Clubs. Details
are:-

S.NO. CLUB NAME NO. OF STUDENTS

1 Social Service Forum 539
2 Fitness Club 537
3 Dance Club 443
4 Finance and Business Club (FinBiz) 398
5 Theater Club 341
6 Photography Club 339
7 Music Club 284
8 Literary Club 232
9 Fine Arts 223
10 Quiz Club 208

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REPORT ON CLUBS’ ACTIVITIES

DANCE CLUB
Dance Club conducted two activities in the month of August, first on 17 th and second on 24th
August. Details are mentioned below.

Date: 17th August, 2016 (Wednesday)

Venue: H.L. Plaza
Activity-1: Love to Dance 1 (Dance session)
Dance Club had its first club session (Love to Dance) at HL Plaza. Many students turned up with great
enthusiasm. Club Coordinators interacted with students and briefed them about the dance club and its
activities. Students’ learnt basics of dance styles like Hip Hop, Jazz, House and Popping. Event concluded on
a good note and students were excited about the club and its future activities.

Date: 24th August, 2016 (Wednesday)

Venue: SEAS
Activity-2: Love to Dance 2 (Dance session)
Second session started with warm-up and exercise routine followed by the revision of last session. Students
learnt freestyle dancing and another dance style of Locking. First two sessions went smoothly and
enthusiastically.

FINBIZ CLUB
FinBiz organised Movie Screening on 31st August, conducted Corporate Lecture on 7th September and
a session on 28th September on topic Wealth to Stock Market. Details are mentioned below:-

Date: 31st August, 2016 (Wednesday)

Venue: Room No. T1 - T2, New Building, H L Campus
Activity-1: Movie Screening

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There was movie screening in the first event of FinBiz club naming ‘The Big Short’. The movie depicts the
financial crisis of 2007-08 which was screened with the aim of providing financial knowledge to the students.
The movie was followed by the discussion from Professor Saumil Shah, who interacted with the students,
understanding their view point about the crisis and explaining to them various jargons used in the movie.

Date: 7th September, 2016 (Wednesday)

Venue: Room No. T1 - T2, New Building, H L Campus
Activity-2: Corporate Lecture
Speakers:
Mr. Pravin Sumesara, Sales Manager, Marketing and Administration, Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund
Mr. Sumedh Gupte, Regional Head, Business Standard

The students had an interesting time listening to both the speakers and hearing about the concepts of
finance, savings and investments. Speakers shared their ideas and concepts about savings and investments.

Date: 28th September, 2016 (Wednesday)

Venue: Room No. 107, SEAS
Activity-3: Wealth to Stock Market
Speaker: Prof. Parag Patel

An informative interaction session was delivered by Prof. Parag Patel, to explain and clear concepts about
the Stock Markets by explaining the advent and history of the stock markets and the evaluation of the two
main stock exchanges of India, viz. BSE and NSE. 125 students attended the session.

FINE ARTS CLUB

Fine Arts Club organised their first event BEST OUT OF WASTE WITH SOME TWIST AND TURNS on 31st
August at School of Computer Studies. 57 students participated in the event from various programmes of
Ahmedabad University.

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FITNESS CLUB
Fitness Club conducted their activities on Sunday mornings at HL Plaza on 28th August and 4th
September. Details are mentioned below:-

Activity-1: Aerobics
Instructor/ Speaker: Miss Divya Armani (Alumnus)
The club commenced with its first session on 28th August at 6:30 in the morning with Aerobics. The activity
started with warm up, cardio exercises, moving on to aerobics and finally ended with 2 rounds of jogging.
More than 200 students participated enthusiastically in this activity.

Activity-2: Cardio, jogging and fitness activity

Second session was conducted by the committee members. Prof. Ankur Gangal, mentor of Fitness Club also
joined the session and participated actively in the session. Even though sessions were held on Sunday
morning, approx. 275 students participated in fun and fitness activities.

LITERARY CLUB
Literary Club conducted Debate Preliminaries on 17th August and Debate Competition on 31st August.
Details are mentioned below:-

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Date: 17th August, 2016 (Wednesday)
Venue: Room No. 30, HLIC
Activity-1: Debate Preliminaries

23 students participated in the activity. Topic of the debate was “Should everyone be considered organ
donors unless they opt out?” Based on Content, Delivery, Body Language and Rebuttal, 12 participants were
selected for next round.

Date: 31st August, 2016 (Wednesday)

Venue: HLIC Auditorium
Activity-2: Clarion - The Debate

12 participants selected from the debate preliminaries held on 17th August, were divided into 6 pairs, with
6 different topics given to each pair for Round 1. The 6 winners from Round 1, proceeded to Round 2. The
topic for Round 2, given beforehand was: Is technology a hindrance to privacy? Judges selected top 4
candidates to go for Round 3 and winner and runner-up were announced after Round 3.

MUSIC CLUB
Music Club auditions were held on 24th August, 2016 and 31st August, 2016 at BKMIBA Auditorium.

On both days 140 students appeared for the auditions out of a total of 332 registrations. On 24th August, the
auditions were conducted in three different rooms simultaneously and in every room there were two judges.
On 31st August, the auditions were conducted in two rooms.

On 14th September, there were individual performances by the members.

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PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB (SHUTTERBUGS)
Photography Club conducted three activities, visit to Jamalpur Market on 17th August, Photography
session on 24th August and World Wide Instameet 14 by Instagram and AU Shutterbugs on 17th
September. Details are mentioned below:-

Date: 17th August, 2016 (Wednesday)

Venue: Jamalpur Flower Market
Activity-1: Freedom Clicked at Flower Market
The Photography Club – Shutterbugs of Ahmedabad University had organised a photo walk along with a
photography competition at the Jamalpur Flower market. Since, it was the Independence week what else
could have been a better theme other than FREEDOM. Fresh air full of dedication and energy surrounded as
over fifty enthusiastic young minds were out in the market to uncover the aesthetic beauty of the city
through their cameras. The idea behind this photo walk was to make a bunch of professional and amateur
photographers who share their love for photography, walk along the market and click for their memories.

Date: 24th August, 2016 (Wednesday)

Venue: BKMIBA
Activity-2: Basic Photography Session

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The session was filled with tricks and tips for the basics and techniques of photography. Individuals were
provided with information about shutter speed, aperture, exposure, modes of cameras, composition, and
many more.

Date: 17th September, 2016 (Saturday)

Venue: HL Campus
Activity-3: World Wide Instameet 14 by Instagram and AU Shutterbugs

This event was organized to promote mobile photography and help people come collectively to celebrate
the diversity of food and bring all cultures together; and encourage food from various cultures by organizing
a Cooking Competition & Food Photography Competition. Over 70 students with the love for photography
and cooking participated from various programmes across Ahmedabad University.

THEATRE CLUB
The theatre club of AU, 'RANGKARMI' conducted its first successful workshop on 31st August
2016, Wednesday. There were about 120 members present. The workshop had basic exercises of theatre of
speaking and walking. Groups were formed and were asked to present a situation by themselves in 5-7
minutes. For a start, the students had done a wonderful job and were interested in learning more from
upcoming workshops

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QUIZ CLUB
Quiz Club organised quiz competitions on 17th August and 14th September. Details are mentioned
below:-

Date: 17th August, 2016 (Wednesday)

Activity-1: Spent Quiz

A Spent (Sports + Entertainment) Quiz with some India centric questions for the occasion of Independence
Day was organized by the quiz club for AU students during the first club event day i.e. 17th August 2016.
There were 15 – 20 teams of 2 members each participating in this event.
Six teams qualified after the prelims and it was a roller coaster ride till the last question of the final round.

Date: 14th September, 2016 (Wednesday)

Activity-1: Brand Quiz

There were 25 teams of 2 members each participating in this event, 6 teams qualified after the prelims and
it was a unique and interesting quiz. All the 6 teams went on competing till the last question of the final
round.

SOCIAL SERVICE FORUM

SSETU organizes Blood Donation Drives and Thalassemia Screening Camps in collaboration with the Indian
Red Cross Society (IRCS) every academic year a couple of times. This year all coordination was done by
SSETU as usual. However Social Service Forum was engaged to volunteer and be present to ensure smooth
execution of these twin exercises that were held concurrently at 3 campuses.

Date: 28th September, 2016

Activities: Phase 1 Blood Donation
Phase 1 Thalassemia Screening

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Venues: HL Campus, 12 noon to 5pm, SEAS and SCS, 2pm to 5pm.

Blood donation is open for all students, staff and faculty at AU. However Thalassemia Screening is mandatory
and open only for third year or final year students as the case may be.

Overall the response was excellent. In all 331 units of blood were donated.

Out of a total of 1094 target population, 726 screened for Thalassemia. Remaining shall be covered in phase
2 in second semester.

 Fourth year Engineering students were covered in March 2016 for Thalassemia Screening.
 Many Post Graduate students already screened earlier during their under graduate programmes.

CAMP DETAIL(28/09/2016) COLLECTION REJECTION TOTAL

H.L. Campus 203 57 260
School of Computer Studies 44 25 69
School of Engineering & Applied Science (SEAS) 84 25 109
TOTAL 331 107 438