B.M.S. COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING BENGALURU-19

(Autonomous Institute, Affiliated to VTU)

Department Of Computer Applications

Student Chapter 2018 -19

Stride Release, Alumni Interaction followed with Cultural Activities May 4, 2019:

Stride magazine was released by Dr. B V Ravishankar, Principal & Dr. K Vijayakumar,

of Computer Applications department along with Alumni of MCA. Sixth and forth HOD

semester s contributed in designing, collecting articles and editing of Stride. Students

listed below were involved in collecting required articles and editing “Stride” magzine.

Magazine release event started formally with invocation by Pooja V, followed by film song sung by Jayanth, IV semester MCA students. MCA alumni Srinidhi SA, Naveen Kumar P, Bhavana Raju, Ananthamurthy S R , R Afreen Altab, Darshan Singh & Devanagowda Andnigoudru. Alumni guests Surajit Das, ShankarMurthy S R(Acted in super hit movie Kirik Party), Nakul Daga, Sumanth Revankar graced the event. Alumni addressed the students about their experiences in making STRIDE Magazine, bringing sponsorship and shared their marvelous experiences in college.

Social Activities August 19, 2018 : Computer Applications Students of third semester visited the Adamya

Chetana Kitchen at Gavipuram in Bengaluru which supplies mid-day meals to government

schools in the city. Since 2015, it became a zero-garbage generating unit with every leftover

resourcefully reused. It’s also fossil fuel-free and uses biomass and solar energy for most of its

needs. Around six and half tons of rice get steam-cooked by burning organic briquettes made

from agricultural waste. The kitchen cooks food for 72000 children from 324 schools on a daily

basis. Adamya Chetana has a stock of around 7000 steel plates, spoons and glasses which can

be borrowed by anyone free of cost.

Aug 19, 2018 : Tree Plantation was held at ESSAR Petrol Station, Near Puttenahalli Lake,

Puttenahalli Ward No.187, Bommanahalli, and Bengaluru. Shri. Sathish Reddy, MLA, Smt.

Prabhavathi Ramesh Corporator BBMP, Sri. Ramesh, Ex-Corporator, BJP Puttenahalli

Ward President and the MCA students of BMSCE participated. Around 120 saplings were

planted which includes various species (Sampige, Hebbevu, Honge and Basavanapada) were

planted on the occasion.

January 1, 2019 : Adamya Chetana organised a mega event Ananth Namana 2019, an event dedicated to pay tribute to Shri. AnanthKumar and his contributions to the society. Shri AnanthKumar, an unmatched organiser, undefeated leader, founder of Sasyagraha Green Lifestyle movement, an ever smiling and friendly human being. To mark the event seva Utsava (concept – Anantha Namana), Computer Applications first semester students and faculties joined in chorus singing of “Vandhe Matharam” and “O nanna chethana”.

The Art of Living organisation has started a movement called "Drug February 19, 2019: Free India", an integrated 360° movement to fight the drug abuse, bringing all the key influencers from multiple domains across the country under the guidance of the world-renowned humanitarian leader Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Ji. This webcast was organised at FDC, B.M.S. College of Engineering. Human Resource Development Minister Shri. Prakash Javadekar ji shared an inspiring message urging all the educational institutes across the country to join the Drug Free India movement. Hon'ble Vice Chairman, AICTE encouraged institutions to participate in this movement to help youth to overcome drug abuse and to work towards holistic development of students.

Hackathon

April 30, 2019 : Hackthon based AAT was conducted for 4th sem students of MCA. The event

will be held in ICL and FDC from 7AM to 7PM. The objective is to encourage students for a unique

type of assessment for electives, to do multidisciplinary innovative project in the domain of Internet-of-Things (IoT).

Phase Shift-2018

September 15, 2018 : Dr. Shuba V distinguished scientist, CSIR, Airport Instrumentation,

NAL, Bengaluru delivered a talk on "State of the art Made in India products for Aerospace

sector" as a part of “Space Intelligence” PhaseShift event.

September 15, 2018 :Mr. Lakshminarayan, Senior Scientist, ISRO, Bengaluru delivered a talk

on “Glimses of Indian Space Program” as a part of of “Space Intelligence” PhaseShift event.

September 15, 2018

Ms. Shruthi P, student of 5th

semester MCA

participated in Technical fest Phase Shift 2018

hosted by BMSCE and Won first prize in the

event Toggling.

September 16, 2018

Ms. Ranjitha and Mr. Avanish Giri, students

of 3rd semester MCA participated in

Technical fest Phase Shift Won first prize in

the event Flick.

September 16, 2018 Mr. Abilash and Mr. Madhav Bhardwaj, students of 5th semester MCA participated in Technical fest Phase Shift 2018 hosted by BMSCE and Won Second prize in the event Space Build.

September 16, 2018 Ms. Priya G and Ms. Sushma K.S, students of 3rd semester MCA participated in Technical fest Phase Shift 2018 hosted by BMSCE and Won Second prize in the event Encrypto- Decrypto.

Placement Club :

August 18, 2018 An event was conducted, wherein students were asked to create their own

accounts in Hackerrank to solve problems in any language they are comfortable with.

August 23, 2018

Coding event is conducted in Hackerrank for

complex problems. Manasa, Pooja, Harshit and

Ramesh conducted pick and speak event to

enhance communication skills.

September 20, 2018

Avanish Kumar Giri hosted a session on

aptitude- height and distance, which was

subject under discussion for the week. A

brief introduction was given to the topic and

necessary formulas were discussed to solve

the problems.

October 4, 2018

Placement Club, Computer Applications

department organized a quiz session based on

programming, aptitude and logical reasoning

using online platform called Kahoot. This

session was handled by Harshit and Avanish.

October 4, 2018

Mr. Raghavendra Rao, Assistant Professor,

Computer Applications department gave a

brief introduction to placement club

activities. A quiz was conducted for first

semester students to select few volunteers for

placement activity club. Pooja V explained

the benefits of attending PC activities.

October 11, 2018 Pooja V, 3

rd sem MCA student handled the

session. Students were asked to solve problems

with test cases followed by quiz organized on

Kahoot. Quiz.

Harshit Jain and Avanish Giri, students of 3rd

sem MCA briefed on “how technical rounds

will be conducted at placements” for first

semester students. Students were made to

predict possible solutions for a given problem

and design test cases.

October 25, 2018:

A session on programing and various ways of

implementing the same was conducted. This

session was handled by Vardhini R , Bharath

P G , Sharmila T Harshith T and Ganesha

Srinivas. A brief introduction was given on

those programs with the related and

necessary formulas to solve those problems.

Students were made to think and analyze and

work on different types of logics that can be

used for one particular program. Students

were made to work on their systems and were

made to give all possible inputs to a program.

November 22, 2018:

Bharath, Ganesha, Harshith, Sharmila and

Vardhini handled the session on coding and

few multiple choice questions regarding C

Programming and HTML tags.

A session was conducted to create interest in

computer programming and conducted mock

Group Discussion session exclusively for

first semester students.

February 20, 2019:

A Session on Coding was conducted and asked to

solve problems

February 27, 2019: Pooja and Harshit, forth semester Computer Applications students handled the session. In this session students were told to make teams of two and start practicing problems in Codechef. They were told to increase the complexity level by one step and scores were given accordingly. All felt very interesting and challenging and were excitingly solving problems through Codechef.

March 6, 2019: Ganesha S, Vardhini R , Bharath P G , Sharmila T, Pooja Gowda and Umesh (IIsem) coordinated placement club activity, Computer Applications department. Activity was based on C /C++ coding constructs.

March 6, 2019 Pooja, Harshit and Avanish coordinated placement activity for students of fourth semester MCA. A session on Kahoot focused on basic python tricky problems, solved through Codechef.

March 6, 2019 Online Quiz was conducted by second semester students.

March 20, 2019 placement club, Computer Applications department conducted programming contest.

April 3, 2019

Vardhini R , Bharath P G , Sharmila T, Gowda

Pooja Umesh ,Ganesha Srinivas Harshith jain and

Avanish Kumar handled a session on

coding(both C and C++) and Quiz.

April 10, 2019

MCA 2nd semester students Ganesha S, Vardhini R, Sharmila T, Bharath P G, Gowda Pooja Umesh handled session on the concept arrays.

April 24, 2019 : An intra department coding and debugging compitetion is organized by

placement club of Computer Applications department.

June 20, 2019 : Abiramm B R, Co-founder, Ignomagine & Ramu Srinivasaiah, Founder

Director, Lekha Wireless Communications invited to department of Computer Applications, to

discuss regarding internship opportunities.

Cultural Club :

February 16, 2019: Vidya Sagar Educational Trust along with Adamya Chethana conducted a quiz for students to educate students our culture, tradition and inculcate The Nationalism. About 800 students of various branches of B.M.S. college of Engineering participated.

Febraury 20, 2019:

Since MCA students got selected in quiz competition conducted on Feb 16, they got free

ticket to watch URI movie at Gopalan Mall, Bannergatta Road from 9.30AM. During the

break time Indian Army Jawan was honored by Tejaswini Ananthkumar and S Vidyasagar,

Managing Trustee.

February 26, 2019:

As it was the first day of Cultural Activity session the Cultural Activity coordinator Prof.

Shailaja K P and Prof. Pushpa T S gave a formal introduction about the cultural activities

to be conducted in the department. Followed by the selection of student coordinator for

cultural activities was chosen.

Student Coordinators :

From4th Semester:

Ashwitha R

Karthik M

Pooja V

From 2nd Semester:

Ganesha Srinivas

Vaibhavi

Students enjoyed by playing “Antyaskhari” between the teams 2nd and 4th semester.

March 02, 2019: The event was started with a song by Jayant Sahu (4th sem). Followed by

formation of team for singing and dancing. Later Prajna Bhat (4th Sem) sang a melodious

song. Identify the song name which was given in English lyrics. Few students of 4th and 2nd

Semester performed dance.

March 09, 2019: As a part of Woman’s day celebration, week as a part of Spectrum week,

cultural activity was conducted which started at 11.15am in FDC. Invocation song was

sang by Prajna Bhat and Chitra Manjunath (4th Sem). Followed by a melodious solo song

by Jayant Sahu (4th Sem), Group Song by Vaibhavi, Vardhini, Pooja Gowda, and Supriya

(2nd Sem).

The activity was followed by a classical and western dance performance by Sushma G (4th Sem). The event was contined with playing of dumb charades. The session was ended with few students performing dance. Students and staff of Computer Applications department celebrated Spectrum week from 5th to 11th March to mark woman’s day celebration.

March 16, 2019 : As a part of Cultural Activity this week a Sports day was scheduled

between 2nd and 4th semester students. A cricket match was held between the teams of

4th and 2nd semester MCA students. Throw ball and few indoor games like carom, table

tennis was also conducted.

March 23, 2019 : An interactive session was organized by S Shilpa, Computer Applications department. Alumni shared their invaluable memories of student life, their journey as employees/entrepreneurs and career advancement.

Participation Details in Co-curricular Activities :

September 25, 2018:

The students of III semester Bilagi Suresh

Srinidhi, Gangotri D,Girija KV, Namrata N

and Sushmita B of department of MCA

participated in CISCO Women Rock IT-2018

hosted by Christ University, Bangalore.

September 28, 2018:

Meghana S and Priya V of the Department of

Computer Applications represented BMSCE-

IEEE WiE Affinity group at WinTechCon-

2018, a one day Women’s Technical

Conference Organized by IEEE CAS

Bangalore Chapter, In cooperation with IEEE

Bangalore Section and IEEE WiE Council

(IEEE Women in Engineering), Bangalore

November 14-16, 2018: The Head of the Department Dr. D N Sujatha, Mrs. V.Padmapriya and

students of Department of Computer Applications attended Grace Hopper Conference India

(GHCI 2018). Ten students of Computer Applications department received student scholarship

for this event sponsored by AnitaB.org.

April 12, 2019 : Girija, Sushmitha B, Pooja V of

4th Semester MCA attended Oracle International

Women’s data celebration.

April 13, 2019 :Few of the 2nd Semester and 4th

Semester Students attended a Workshop

“Every Engineer is a Creator”.