Saturday, 5 May 2012

‘IMAGINATION IS MORE POWERFUL THAN KNOWLEDGE’ - ALBERT EINSTEIN


          
             ‘IMAGINATION IS MORE POWERFUL THAN KNOWLEDGE’   - ALBERT EINSTEIN

             You might have witnessed the story of man evolving, but we witnessed Sapthagirians evolving and their potentialities that has raised to heights, in just one meet up. Yes, you heard it right- ‘Sapthagirians evolving’- starting with the first batch of 2005 to the latest outgoing batch of 2012 under one roof was pleasure in itself. Indeed an awesome feeling to have enthusiastic and likeminded people who want some ‘change’ to be made in the college and to society.

              Imagination is more powerful than knowledge – with this inspiration Alumni admins and core admins along with the college authorities held its 2nd meet up on 5/5/2012 at our very own dear college – ‘ Sapthagiri college of Engineering’.

              Sailing in the same boat, about 15 of us started to give out ideas, many things were discussed, brilliant ideas & suggestions started pouring in to build this Alumni association with a strong foundation.

              The discussion was divided into 4 headings.

I. Objectives to be set up for the alumni association

  • Building a ‘single communicating platform’ for alumni
  • To have a connectivity among the alumni, alumni & the college, alumni & the current final year students.
  • To help the association & to contribute time, energy & expertise to help SCE fraternity grow, develop & prosper.
  • To coordinate & promote programs that instill goodwill & to provide support for placements & internships.
  • To pool the skills & applying the available resources to enhance professional & personal growth of the members.
  • To facilitate learning process through exchange of ideas & knowledge.
  •  Active participation & learning healthy interaction among alumni.
II. Roles & responsibilities for the members in the core & the admin team

  •  Share at least one post once in a week/ fortnight of your interested topic or jobs.
  •  Appreciate and recognize the new shares posted in the group as a motivation factor by giving positive comments & likes.
  •  Promoting by all means for having updated database of alumni.
  • Go on adding new members to your team & spread the awareness about good things happening.
  •  Not to entertain any unhealthy discussion in the group.
III. The Next Immediates- materializing shortly

  •       To have our own discussion room within the college.
  •      To have an official email id for the alumni from the college- by Suma Vishwanath.
  •        Segregation of teams in Google groups created with mailing lists- by Ankur & vinay.
  •        To frame a time tracker for upcoming events- by Chethan & Avinash.
  •        Transformation of the current outgoing students into Alumni in the upcoming Farewell event.


IV. Road map for coming 6 months

  •       An event on knowledge sharing & new technology to be organized in the month of August in the college.
  •        Active participation of the alumni team in creating awareness, motivating & spreading goodwill of alumni in the upcoming Fresher’s day (in the month of September).
  •        College management will propose the idea of having an Innovative Cell to HOD’s & lecturers.
  •        Continuous follow-ups by college management ultimately leading to awareness among students about alumni.
            These were the few ‘minutes of the meeting’ . We were motivated by the participation of Srinivas Sir, Gopalakrishna Sir, AO & Suma maam, PO. The college authorities also promised us to be a part of the Facebook group & support us in all our endeavours.

             I would like to congratulate each & every admin of 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 & 2012 batches who took part in this healthy discussion and made it a success & would thank the college authorities for their tremendous support, participation & hospitality.

Guys, It’s time for some action now….Let’s do it.
                                                                                                                       B S Sumangala Jain
                                                                                                              Sapthagiri Alumna -2011 batch


                                                                                                       

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