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Sharan Shaju and Avinash Nagarajan
CIT at BICS 2019
2020 BICS NATIONAL SOCIETY AWARDS CONTENDERS
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his year gets stranger and stranger as this epidemic Civil & Structural representing us in the Best Departmental continues to affect the regular academic calendar category. The Indian society will be representing their Diwali norm we were all so familiar with. This crisis has led event in the Best Event category. Winners of CIT Society of us to adapt so many of our daily routines to something a the year award 2020, the International Students Society bit more digital. Our Societies are determined to continue to will be representing in the Best Society (Cultural, Academic, operate and have had to adapt to this change quite quickly Social) category. Representing us in the Best Society (Charboth on the staff and the student side. From the Student side ity, Civic) category will be the LGBT* Society. it may mean that large events will have to be put on hold but We have 2 individuals representing us at BICS this year. In for some, weekly meetings have continued online. the Best Fresher category, we have Sharan Shaju. Sharan On the 9th April the CIT Societies Awards were held won the CIT Best Fresher award at our own awards this year. online in a video conference call. Societies Officer Aoife Sharan is an active first year in societies being part of the Kelliher presented and announced the winners of this year’s Photographic society and the Indian society. Next, we have awards. Many of these winners will go forward to represent Konrad Im representing CIT in the Best Individual category. CIT at the BICS National Society Awards. BICS stands Winner of the CIT Students Societies & Activities Awards for Board of Irish College Societies. This organization is 2020 Supreme Achievement in Society & College-wide made up of the society officers around the country and help activities. Konrad is the chairperson of the LGBT* and has societies on a national level. Every year BICS holds their been active member of the society since he started in CIT. own Society Awards where student and societies from all Konrad had done some amazing work in and off campus over Ireland compete against each other in with the LGBT* Society and this year the varying categories. The CIT representatives society held the GSA Training day for must complete an application for their catsecondary school students which was a egory and create a visual portfolio but this major success. year the format has been changed slightly. The other societies representing at BICS Instead of an interview, the representatives are Anime & Manga Society in the Best must create a 5-minute video to help show poster category, Musical Society in the off their personalities for the judges. In Best Picture and the Best Promotional the past 10 years, CIT has shown that we Video categories and Energy & Envihave the very best of Societies, winning 14 ronmental Society in the Green Initiative awards at BICS and hoping to win more category. Wishing them the best of luck in with this year’s representatives. the next few weeks as they aim to comSo who is representing CIT this year? In plete both their own college assignments the Best New Society category, we have and BICS applications. Konrad IM the Sci-Fi Society. This year we have the
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