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Quantum Hack: Nepal’s Biggest Virtual Hackathon on 28-29 August

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19th August 2020, Kathmandu

NxtGen, a student organization from Pulchowk Campus, is going to organize Nepal’s biggest virtual hackathon on the 28th and 29th of August, 2020. It is called Quantum Hack ‘Connect. Ideate. Implement’.Owing to the pandemic situation, this is going to be a virtual event covering a full 24 hours of hard work. The vision of this event is “Remedifying after-effects of COVID-19”.

Meanwhile, let’s know the event better.

What is Quantum Hack virtual hackathon?

Quantum Hack is one of Nepal’s largest student-run university hackathons. This will be the first-ever virtual hackathon in the Nepali context. This event will bring together the industries and innovators together. Meanwhile, Quantum Hack will host about 240 participants from all around the world.

What’s special about this virtual hackathon?

This program will provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of:

  • Thematic projects and their consequences/usefulness for human society
  • Technical or any assistance for such products that have the potential to be implemented to the community level.
  • Vision or anticipated practices for the suitable transition into new normal from professionals
  • In addition to the above, the event will create an excellent opportunity for networking and establish a sustainable network of developer circles and stakeholder organizations.

What are the pre-activities?

The event will also have several pre-activities ranging from important workshops to fun game tournaments. The workshops will be on building E-commerce sites, Social entrepreneurship, and Blockchain. Similarly, game tournaments will include ludo, chess, quizzes, and online games.

Hence, we feel it’s going to be a wholesome event. Learning and Fun Together!

What are the thematic areas?

  1. Disaster Management and Preparedness
  2. Education
  3. Health
  4. Entertainment
  5. Open topic

If you’re a bit interested in the prizes and recognition in the event, you will be happy to know that there will be 6 category-wise individual winners and 1 overall best idea wins. On top of that, none of the participants will go empty-handed; you will receive the participation prize too!

Firstly, It will be a great opportunity for you to hone your skills and network with the industry stakeholders. Secondly, if you win there are various prizes to claim! Therefore, don’t miss the opportunity. Do register soon.

So, if you are interested in the event, you can visit the links provided and register for the event. For more details about registration and other details, you can visit the Facebook page of Quantum Hack by clicking here. Similarly, you can visit the event website by clicking here.

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Locus to Host Yomari CodeCamp 2019

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Exhibit your Knowledge, Skills and get exposure in Yomari CodeCamp 2019 hosted by Locus 2019. Learn to Build Apps, Games & Web portal. Coding Knowledge & Skills are in high demand. Yomari Codecamp is the perfect opportunity to launch towards is exciting. Yomari CodeCamp helps you learn how to code by working through self-paced coding challenges and building projects.

Yomari CodeCamp is a two-day event in LOCUS which provides a platform for the students as well as tech enthusiasts to initiate an idea and deploy it into a useful application. The participants come up with a feasible plan which falls into one of the pre-specified categories and works during the first day to convert that idea into a viable product. The participants then pitch the final product during the second day of the event in front of a panel of judges and justify their efforts to win.

Yomari Code Camp is not only just a coding event but also an opportunity for young minds to network with industry experts and like-minded enthusiasts. At Yomari Code Camp, the main focus has always been on creating an environment where knowledge is easily shared between participants and mentors. The participants can develop their applications on any of the mentioned themes.

  1. Games & Entertainment
  2.  Data Analysis & Visualization
  3. IOT & Automation
  4. ICT in Agriculture
  5. BlockChain Technology
  6. Assistive Technology
  7. Tourism & Hospitality
  8. Open Innovation

Registration Deadline: February 1st, 2019
Event Timing: February 7th – 8th, 2019
Event Address: Institute of Engineering, Central Campus, Pulchowk

16th National Technological Festival 2019

LOCUS Pulchowk Campus: The Story About How It All Started

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LOCUS: A Brief History

In an ever-developing world, LOCUS (a committee of students from Bachelors in Electronics, Electrical, and Computer Engineering, Pulchowk Campus) has been continuously providing the students related to such a vast field to develop practical knowledge and skills through competitive participation in its annual tech-festival.

In the year 2003, three enthusiastic and soon to be computer engineers from Pulchowk visited a tech event in Regional Engineering Campus, Jaipur, India (currently known as the National Institute of Technology) that inculcated their fostering minds with the idea that a similar event must be organized by arguably the best engineering college in Nepal. So, they embarked on a mission to bring the reach of a competitive environment for the young minds of Nepal to develop. Girish Bilash Joshi, Amit Krishna Joshi, and Biswa Dahal formed an informal group comprising of the then faculty, professors and made the event possible. Although the committee started off including the students of Computer Engineering, the students from Electronics and Electrical Engineering soon joined the group and made LOCUS possible as we know today.

The first LOCUS, which was a seven-day event provided the much-needed exposure to the projects of the undergraduate students of the technical faculties. The event turned out to be much more successful that it was anticipated and hence laid down a platform for future tech enthusiast to grow. LOCUS-2003 comprised of events like Project Display, on spot software designing, quiz, software, and hardware debugging, tech cartooning and many more. The project supervisor of the quartet, Dr. Arun Kumar Timalsina, who overlooked the event closely stated that all three of them did everything necessary; from marketing to financial management to resource management.

The following year, Nischal Dahal was appointed as the Co-Ordinator along with Smriti Shrestha as the Chief Correspondent. In 2004, the event was aided by the maximum support of the Electrical Engineering students and the event was expanded. The then committee requested a working space and hence the current office was granted by the college administration. The second LOCUS saw a huge number of attendees however the following year wasn’t the same. LOCUS 2005 saw a tremendous fall in the number of attendees and was stated to have no uniqueness.

In the year 2006, LOCUS was finally diversified by the inclusion of the Electrical Engineering students in the committee. The event was then conducted for 3 days and the introduction of new events like software and hardware competitions has been a trendsetter ever since.

The following year saw the addition of an electrical event that included project demonstrations, idea bidding and topics like Alternate energy, Transmission lines, hydropower and many more. The trend was then set and students from all three technical departments were included in the committee for organizing the events annually.

Ever since the first installment of LOCUS, it has been fulfilling the literal meaning of its name, a trajectory that binds us together and provides a path for those who seek opportunities to grow.

LOCUS-2019 (soon to be organized on February 7,8,9) has added a few more events like ROBOLOCUS (robotics competition targeted for +2 students), hardware/software fellowship (workshop/training for +2 and undergraduate students), AI fellowship (training for AI enthusiasts) and promises to be a wonderful platform for those who seek to develop.

References: https://locus.pcampus.edu.np/