Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Why Techfest???

These two words will always haunt me. You know why? Becoz after dedicating my three years to techfest(tf) I am still searching for the answer and there are others, around 100 odd ppl, too. So, 'am not alone. This question is always asked to the future managers during handing-over and it is expected that they ask it by themselve as often as it could be to carry forward the culture and tradition with which we brought up our darling baby.
We 're left with this question to think why we opted for tf when there were many other opportunities to grab. Watt attracted us towards it? Why we dedicate our 9 months to it, keeping aside studies(generally its not acceptable), friends, wing-mates.
Watt is tf? As we say, it is Asia's largest technical festival having 15k(really) in 3 days participants from all over the world. It is India's first college festival to go International with participants from USA, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Iraq, Israel, Nepal, Pakistan(!!).
Its a 9 yr old baby which takes 9 months every year to take its birth. And around 20+ ppl take the pain to breed and nurture it. There is a workforce of over 500 volunteers and lot of help from profs for the conceptulisation of problem statements, then there are designers who do lot of designing. We provide them a platorm to show the gamut of their skills (atleast they 're Innovative). Yeah we need money to give it a shape and we are scaling to new heights by each passing year.
It was the most amazing thing that happened in my life. I was in the core team of tf2k5 which also conducted the 'First Techfest Reunion'. We got the opportunity to meet the 'Baaps' of past 7 tfs.
I made few very good friends and would remember them always. I'll miss them once I passout. We have coterie of 22 ppl, who can be generally seen near any eateries and quite often at airport canteen.
Why Techfest??? I am thinking about it!!
It only takes a DREAM to create the FUTURE!!!

1 comment:

Unknown said...

dude...purene din yaad karwa diye ....