ACE INNOVATION CLUB
In this modern era of development a vibrant knowledge Network has to be created across the different sectors to achieve success. For achieving this goal we have inaugurated an innovation forum called ACE KALAM FORUM FOR INNOVATION-AKFI. The club was inaugurated by Dr Pankaj Priyadarshi, Head of Aerodynamic wing at ISRO on 9th may, 2016.
The club will promote inclusive innovations by linking itself into creativity. Primarily, the club will aim at four functions:
[A] Search
[B] Spread
[C] Sense
[D] Celebrate.
The students can take up value addition in local ideas, test some of the innovations, modify the design or cover the whole value chain of Innovation including student based entrepreneurship. The club will also extend its efforts and include activities like skill development and other complementary activities. An industry-institute cell may be made up with in the club so that better awareness about different industries can be brought within the students.
Objectives
- To explore innovative ideas, methodologies and technologies.
- To organize seminar, conferences, workshops, exhibitions relating to innovations.
- To provide opportunities for students to be engaged in innovative activities through creativity and technical workshops.
- To provide a platform for students, teachers and other members of society to showcase their skills by creating new innovations and products.
Developer Weekend on Web Designing
at ACE College of Engineering, Trivandrum
Ace Kalam Forum For Innovation(AKFI), ACE College of Engineering, Trivandrum, in association with StudyOwl conducted a Developer Weekend on May 13th and 14th, 2017, on the ever prevailing topic of Web Development.
Developer Weekend (www.developerweekend.org) is community driven twoday event. The motto of Developer Weekend is to focus on new and trending technologies and to spend the weekend learning and mastering those skills. Developer Weekends give students the opportunity to learn from, interact with and gain insights from industry experts of various technical backgrounds.
This Developer Weekend in ACE is Organized by S6 Mechanical students Mr. Manikantan R Nair & Mr. Sarath Sankar
Mr. Prashanth Reddy from StudyOwl (www.studyowl.in) started the session in the most interactive way, introducing participants to the world of Web Development, and guiding them step by step, turn by turn into the intricacies. The topics covered by the end of first day included CSS, the style sheet language used for describing the presentation of a document written in a markup language.
Second day session saw Mr. Prashanth open the show with bootstrap, the opensource frontend web framework for designing websites and web applications. Post bootstrap, the participants were introduced to the super popular and highly useful JavaScript, and guided through the ways of writing meaningful, useful code in JS, along with all the tips and tricks that the language has to offer.
Sunday’s tutorial session culminated into a 2 hour Hackathon, which was conducted with 2 people in each team. The top 2 teams among the 15 competing ones were chosen as winners of the Hackathon, and awarded with certificates from StudyOwl. The event ended with the great inspirational talks by Mr Azeem Hafiz(Mechanical HOD) and ECE Hod Mr.Rafeeq., At the End of the event StudyOwl( www.studyowl.in) team selected 6 students from college and started the foundation for Developer Weekend Bootcamp coding club in the college and these students will be provided with free technical support for 1 year from the company., lot of students discussing their knowledge and insights, and bombarding the organizers with questions to clear their doubts.
Together with StudyOwl, through Developer Weekend, the participants explored the world of Web Development with a resolve to excel in the field.
