The AmritaCREATE team visited different schools in Andhra Pradesh as the part of Online Labs training programme and Amrita RITE project from February 15- 17, 2017. Tenali, a city in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh, was the first place visited on 15 February, 2017. Mr.Suresh Dhandapani represented AmritaCREATE.
Ms. Devika Krishnadas, a 4th Semester BTech student from the department of Computer Science and Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Amritapuri campus, has been selected to attend Google I/O, an annual developer conference held by Google in San Francisco, California.
Prof. Ravindranathan Thampi, Associate Professor of Solar Energy and Vice-Principal of Internationalization in Engineering and Architecture at University College Dublin (Ireland), visited the Kochi and Amritapuri campuses from November 9th – 14th, 2016. During this time, Prof. Thampi gave talks, held interactive Q&A sessions, and visited several research centers.
Amrita Center for Cybersecurity Systems and Networks, Amritapuri campus, organized a two-day Expert Training Session on Security Audit by Joerg Simon and Fabian Affolter who are international trainers in security. . .
AmritaCREATE, one of the research projects of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, in collaboration with Travancore Sahodaya, jointly organized a teachers training programme on Online Labs for School Lab Experiments- a virtual project for students from class 9 to class 12 to perform Biology, Physics and Chemistry lab experiments. The event held at St. John’s School, Kollam, Kerala, on February 22, 2017. The training program was attended by seventy- five science teachers from thirty- six schools.
Students from Spirituality Mind Body Institute, Columbia University, visited Amrita Darshanam – International Centre for Spiritual Studies at the Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham for a ten day spiritual retreat from December 20, 2016 to December 30, 2016.
Amrita Center for Cybersecurity Systems and Networks, Amritapuri campus organized a 2 day expert training session on Security Audit by Joerg Simon and Fabian Affolter who are international trainers in security auditing.
Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications students and researchers won 1st prize in Maxim IoT Contest conducted at BIEC, Bengaluru on March 4, 2017.
Mr. Gopakumar V., the Faculty Associate, and Ms. Sneha Govindrajan, a student (Class of 2017) from Amrita School of Business, Coimbatore (ASB Coimbatore), attended the two-day national workshop on ‘Innovating Fish Market Chains for Urban Food Security’, held at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Bengaluru from 11-12 February, 2017.
The Amrita School of Biotechnology (ASBT)’s Annual Sports Meet was hosted on the 3rd and 4th of March, 2017. The faculty members and students of ASBT recognize the importance of a wholesome education in which physical education and fitness are of great significance.