‘EVERY END IS A NEW BEGINNING’

        

         Every beginning has an end. And every end is a new beginning. 

It's a relentless cycle seen in every aspect of our lives.

        A year starts, a year ends, only to give birth to another.

        Bittersweet to say the least- The 4 long yrs of Engineering has now just turned into a short span with beautiful butterflies emerging. Thoughts while joining the college about studies, internals, records, practical’s, physics cycle, chemistry cycle, assignments so on & so forth., has now transformed into ‘Yes, I have done it’, with the strange feeling of fear of the outer world. Whatever it may be but the bondings with the fellow students would never change having the memories of the college, friends, hangouts, night outs, treks & trips, ‘Sankalp’- college fest.  All these are part & parcel of each and every student who in a couple of a days will be transformed from student to an alumnus.

        Today the 19^th of May, 2012 witnessed colorful outgoing batch dressed in their best, engrossed in their feeling of oneness in their final farewell. The strong desire & promise to stay connected after the college days of these young butterflies was learnt by we the alumni group & extended our goodwill to join hands & to form a firm bridge as Sapthagirians.

         Letting the young ones know about the alumni, its objectives, purpose was very much crucial and essential & this was effectively done by the team members – Mahesh, Sharaschandra, Ankur, Avinash &  other Team members by giving a small presentation.

         Following interests were made known with the support from college faculty & alumni members along with sharing the responsibilities.

I. Roles & Responsibilities 

      

      College fraternity:

• Joining  facebook "Sapthagiri Alumni"  group and be part of the ongoing discussion within the group which motivates our students and Alumni
• Spreading the awareness among the college students about the Alumni group and helping to achieve this challenge by making students to be part of the group
• Taking Comprehensive steps through notice boards, and in class, faculties spreading the positiveness happening in Alumni group

• Creating a Alumni section in website  by students of pre final year/ final year content wise help provided by our Placement officer, Suma Vishwanath and Alumni members
• Identifying atleast 2 members from each branch from the respective ongoing batch as the representatives for the Alumni group in the college and sending out the contact detail to Suma /any of our Alumni member
• Showcasing ideas related to Free lancing, Entrepreneurship for  students of 4-8th semester, identifying the interested candidates and redirecting them to the Alumni group 
• Inputs regarding the expectation from the students which require support from the Alumni  will be  shared with all members from the respective Branch HOD's
• Integrating the projects done by the final year students with the college website / Alumni group for the betterment

     Alumni Members: 

• A career guidance support from the Alumni members to the students in showcasing the various sectors option availability. 
• Supporting in conducting the workshops, industrial visit which was also mentioned among the prime need.
• Providing the details regarding the internships opportunities available in our working sector to the college students
• Helping the students idea through our innovative cell and helping the required support from existing Entrepreneur who are part of Alumni group.
• Providing the support for the Job opportunities by making our Alumni members to discuss with HR's of respective  companies and build a communication channel with the college placement officer

               

II. New things that are planned to happen soon:

•  Gathering the Accessibility contact details that need to be posted in the Alumni column of college website  
•  To bring in the interest among the students in preparing the case studies on any idea they are having.
• Alumni team to come with time tracker for the upcoming events and share with the college fraternity to be in same page of understanding.

 

III. Road map for the next 6 months planned:

• An event on Knowledge sharing and new technology to be organised in the month of August.
•  Actively participating as Alumni team in motivating and spreading goodwill , awareness of Alumni during the freshers day which will be held in month of  August / September
• Breaking out the existing challenges faced i.e., interactions, awareness about group by the month of September.

 

         All these above information have surely ignited the minds of the current batch with the importance of the alumni association & the healthy work done by it. 

        We are immensely grateful for the support given by our college management, beloved director Sri Srinivasan, Principal Dr. C Puttamadappa, AO Mr. Gopala Krishna, Respective HOD’s, PO Mrs. Suma Vishwantath & also thankful for the right kind of team we have in our alumni who do everything possible to the extent to do their best in bringing change.

        As this batch walks out of the gates for the one last time, another group is coming in for the first, so this begins a cycle once again. Good luck in whatever the future holds for the 2012 batch & hoping to see the growth of alumni members.

                                                                                                    B S Sumangala Jain

                                                                                          Sapthagiri Alumna -2011 batch