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IEEE Day Celebrations: October 6, 2011, IEEE SB of SIST celebrated the 2nd annual IEEE Day as a ‘Tech-fest’ with colourful programme in the afternoon from 14:00 to 17:30 Hrs at ‘Bodhi’ Hall at Ambalamukku, Tvpm with two sessions. The celebrations started with cutting a cake inscribed ‘IEEE Day’ by the Student branch Counsellor, K Gopalan Nair in the presence of Anil Jayamohan and other office bearers and members of the SB. This was followed by two different sessions, a general body meeting of members and a public meeting. Session-1 General body meeting (members only) 1. Discussion on the performance of the members attended the events, FRIZBEE and AISC. Bhagyalakshmi presented the report on FRISBEE held at MES College of Engineering, Kuttippuram. Parvathy S R and Aravind S Nair, presented the report on AISC held at New Delhi. The session was interesting and interactive. All the participants appreciated the performance of the members who represented
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the SB and requested to keep the vibrancy in feature also. 2. Discussion on upcoming events in October and its approval. Entrusted the following members to nominate members and proceed with the schedule: • STAC - Parvathy S R (the event is postponed to 20-10-2011) • IEEEXtreme - Aravind S Nair • Industrial Visit - Bhagyalakshmi • Website design - Ravi • Modification of Group-id Aravind S Nair • Membership campaign - Anil Jayamohan • Fund mobilizing - first programme, College level Quiz competition - Arun • Medical Camp - Parvathy S R • Visit & study on Mitraniketan, an experimental non-profit social and educational project, near Vellanad - K. Gopalan Nair Session-2 Awareness Programme (for members and public) The public meeting commenced at 16:00 hrs with the welcome speech by Parvathy S.R addressing the participants including members and non-members from different walks of life. K. Goplan Nair (Professor SIST & SM IEEE) explained the importance of IEEE Day and the current year’s theme ‘Empowering Members to Create the Future’. This was followed by the speech by Anil Jayamohan (AP, SIST & Member IEEE) on ‘Technology and Common Man’. He pinpointed the effective applications of the technology Kerala Section