Felicity '08 - The Techno-Cultural Fest Of IIIT: Events in Hyderabad

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Felicity 2008, the annual cultural and technical fest of the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), is on from 8th to 10th February at the institute's campus in Gachibowli. One of the most awaited college festivals in town, Felicity attracts students from the best colleges throughout India, and especially of Hyderabad from reputed colleges like ISB, NIFT, HCU, NALSAR, OU and JNTU.

This year, Felicity has a plethora of events designed to test and encourage skills and talent. Apart from the events, there are also talks by experts in their fields, workshops by the best, and performances from the stalwarts.

The main events in the festival are divided into Threads Online, Threads Onsite, Literary Cafe, Cultural, Major Nights and Talks/Workshops. The detailed list of events is as under:

Threads Online
CodeCraft - The annual programming contest
Mathematika - Online math contest
Equity Pulse - The real time online stock market simulation
Kode-Konundrums - A scripting involved online puzzle game
Cache In - A new age treasure hunt that has a series of brain racking puzzles
Spin The Web - A website designing contest
Logo Design - A logo designing contest
Pixel(i)(j) - Video-making contest
Sculpt - Game designing contest

Threads Onsite
BizWit - A business skills contest
Re-Mix - A music remixing event
Quick And The Dead - It's all about solving labyrinth's, playing with trees, traversing ahead on graphs, making the right move with towers of hanoi, game of polygons and sense of recursion.
Debug The CBug - A debugging contest
Java Jargon - An exhaustive test on the theoretical concepts of Java
Search Engine - As the clock ticks fast, your mind works FASTER. Surpass every level with the help of a recipe of common sense, speed and ingenuity!
.NET Event by Microsoft - The .NET Software Development Contest
Rush Hour by CA - People getting an opportunity to build their career. Audience becoming quiz masters. Contestants calling their friends to help them. You got to see this. Organizers: The CA Team.

Literary Cafe
Creative Writing - Fish about for the camouflaged Wordsmith in you. Grab a pen and get started right away!
Media Works - Journo Phobia, the perfect platform to showcase the journalist in you!
Group Discussion - It is a useful tool to ascertain the group and inter-personal qualities of an individual
JAM - Just A Minute
Ship Wreck - The personality contest. Participants will be on a ship as celebrities which is about to sink, but there is only one lifeboat available. Then the game begins!
WTGW (What's the Good Word?) - 3 clues, 1 word and a telepathic connection with your partner.
Dumb Charades - When silence is golden and actions speak louder than words, it can only mean one thing.
Felicity Quiz - For those Quizzolini's and Witler's out there.
Online Quiz - The online version of Felicity Quiz.
Catch The Clip - This is basically a visual game. The underlined principles of the game are to put one's imaginative and intellectual skills to test.

Cultural
Antakshari - The common music game
Kahaani Mein Twist - Enact a famous muted movie scene using your wittiest imagination. Co-ordination is the key word here.
Radio Mirchi Radio ka Baadshah - Wanna be a Radio Jockey? Then let your excellent communication skills, ownership of a live appealing voice, creativity of mind and good sense of humour do the talking.
Dance/Jhankaar - Set the stage on fire with your swift body movement, energetic jerks and an electrifying stage act.
Groove it - Magnetize the enthusiastic crowd and let them go gaga over your group act. A free style group competition- western, classical, hip-hop.
Nrytaka - Dance of joy. Showcase a treasure of variety of folk and classical art forms.
Natyam - the Indian traditional dance
Singing - Solo Singing. Unite the melody of ragas with "laya" by complimenting the tunes of each other.
Group Singing - A clash which demands a passionate devotion to music n melody.
Two 2 tango - Come as a pair to have double the fun, double the excitement and double the cheers. cos it takes 2 to tango.

Zombie Zone
Bowl Out @ MPM - The bowling competition will be held on the 2nd of February at Knock 10, MPM mall, Abids from 10:00am to 2:00pm.
Fifa 2007 - A computer game of FIFA soccer
NFS Carbon - Need for Speed Carbon. Another compuer game of car racing
Counter Strike - One of the best war games to play online
Warcraft 3 : DotA - An online Gladiator game of fight

Kalakshetra
Graffiti - Spread the cultural movement through your writings on the wall. Scratch it, Scribble it, and Spray it
TaTooed - Exuberance of youth, Karizma of Freedom. Dare to paint your attitude
T-sketch - Get your craziest, wierdest, wackiest ideas together to fashion a brand new t-shirt
CLAYtivity - Let the child within you come out and have some fun with clay. Bring out the exuberance in your masterpiece while sticking to the fundamentals
Ad-kampagne - Blend the business acumen of L N Mittal and the artistic finesse of M F Hussain to create a poster for a product which will fly off the shelves.
Face Pictura - The mundane trend of painting on canvas n paper
Rangoli - Make the earth look colourful with your imaginative designs laid over it

Electronics
Gizmo - Design a machine that can propel the current technology to the next level (G.O.D: Gadget of Dreams)?
Mystr'E' - Game for solving online E-Puzzles.
Crispy Wafer - A dedicated VLSI event that tests your competence.
EQ - Electrifying quiz show for the electronics enthusiasts. For those who can answer questions fired in the domain of electronics

Major Nights
The most awaited part of Felicity. With music ranging from classical to rock, high caliber artistes at their best and the magic of young talent on stage. There is a fusion performance by the rockband Indian Ocean followed by the War of the DJ's, on 8th February. Mext to come is a rock show by Sledge on 9th February and grand finale on 10th February will crown the Mr & Mrs Felicity 2008

Talks/Workshops
The three days of Felicity will feature workshops and discussions by eminent personalities in their field that include Rashmi Bansal, a graduate from IIM Ahmedadbad and founder editor of JAM Magazine, an extremely popular youth magazine; and Dr. Ananda Shankar Jayant, a danseuse par excellence, on the first day; Sitaram Yechury, politburo of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and CPI (M) Parliamentary group leader, on the second day; and Karuna Gopal, Promoter and CEO of Confluence Consulting - a consulting firm with a portfolio of clients ranging from multinational firms, to the public sector and the Government, on the last day.

Please contact Sriharsha at 98484-45851 or Karan at 98851-33891 or Prudhvi at 93963-53953 for further details.

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Karan Maroo on 7th Feb 2008, 9:09am | Permalink

The entry for the event is free. For more details: felicity.iiit.ac.in

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