December 11, 2009

Quiz on the Beach

Is the possibility of a recession giving you sleepless nights? Do you feel like taking some time off and chilling out? How does a visit to a beach sound? Or would you like to involve yourself in some serious quizzing? What if you were offered the chance of doing both at the same time? Sounds interesting???


T. A. Pai Management Institute’s annual B-School fest, Atharva invites you to participate in the Quiz on the Beach (QOTB) to be held at Kaup Beach, Udupi, Karnataka. QOTB is held on the shores of the magical Arabian Sea with an old British built lighthouse serving as a backdrop. So pack your bags and come down to Kaup Beach for some serious fun!!!



Quiz Flavour: Business Quiz

Host: T. A. Pai Management Institute, Manipal

Quiz Master: Mr. Avinash Mudaliar

Date: Saturday, 9th January 2010

Prize Money: Rs 40,000-First Prize

Rs 20,000-Second Prize

Registration charges: Rs 1500/- per team

2 Members make a team

Open to Corporates (Team members can also belong to different companies).



Please check out the links below for further details:

http://www.tapmi.org/atharva/



For further Clarifications contact:

S. Gopinath : 09742353966

Nikitha Shetty : 09686007000

E- Mail: atharva.tapmi@gmail.com

December 8, 2009

Mad-Ads




Team Atharva brings to you yet another fun filled and exciting online event “MadAds”.

Think you can come up with something better than what you see??
Here’s your shot at becoming the next Prasoon Joshi!!

So what are you waiting for???
Whip out your cameras… Set up the scene… Stretch your imagination… and… Well… Shoot away!


1st prize: Rs. 2,500
2nd prize: Well.. Second best is just an oxymoron!

Rules:
·                     Team size – 2 members
·                     The product to be advertised and a file named “madads.jpg” will be uploaded on the Atharva website on 11th Dec (Friday) at 2300 hours
·                     The madads.jpg file has to be displayed for the first 5 seconds of the Ad
·                     The duration of the Ad should not exceed one minute
·                     The final Ad has to be uploaded on www.youtube.com
·                     The Ad video should be titled: TAPMI_Atharva_Madads_
·                     Each team has to specify the objective of their Ad (e.g.:- brand building, surrogate advertising, increasing sales, increasing awareness etc.)
·                     The link, objective of the Ad and team details have to be entered in the Google spreadsheet that will be made available on the Atharva website on 11th Dec 2300 hours
·                     All videos/images included in the Ad have to be original and intellectual property of the participants. Any violations would lead to disqualification.
·                     Entries accepted till 14th Dec (Monday) 2300 hours.

Registrations open!!!
To register click: www.tapmi.edu.in/atharva

For further details contact:
Divya: 91- 9742502012
Ritesh: 91- 9742510074
     

December 3, 2009

Global Investor - The Quintessential Finance game

"It is easier to create money than to spend it"
- Warren Buffet



Making money in a conventional way does not involve as much risk as is involved in investing in markets to make more money. Be it stocks or commodities or currencies, whether you are a hedger or a speculator or an arbitrageur, it calls for a higher degree of risk. Are you a risk lover or would you prefer to be a risk averse?

So are you ready to spend money to make more of it???

Visit the Atharva website for more details...
     

December 1, 2009

Avventura



Ever thought of stepping into the shoes of an Entrepreneur????????

The game presents you with a challenging problem currently existing in an SME. The game requires you to visit the SME as a team of two to understand and analyze the reasons for the problem. Having done the analysis, you are required to provide a practical solution to the problem. Your solution might even end up being actually implemented by the SME. So, if you think you have the entrepreneurial bent of mind and can think out of the box, a challenge awaits you!!

Do you think you can FIX it!!!

Prizes Worth:
     First: Rs. 10,000
     Second: Rs. 6,000
     

November 19, 2009

CHAKRAVYUH - The Circle of Power



The Theme
The game is themed around India’s greatest epic – The Mahabharata. Chakravyuh represents an unbreakable maze which only the chosen ones can break.


The Game Concept
Chakravyuh aims at identifying India’s next marketing genius by subjecting teams to an action packed, scintillating, and nerve wrecking time of strategically engaging and inspiring marketing activities. All this with a promise of an undisclosed X Factor!


General Rules
  • A team should comprise of 2 members.
  • A Preliminary Round will be conducted before the main event.
  • Six teams will be shortlisted for the final round.
  • No prior knowledge of marketing jargons is required.
  • The decision of the judges in this regard is final and binding.
  • Multiple rounds will be conducted in the finals, the rules of which will be disclosed on the spot.
  • The details of the preliminary round will be communicated.

Do visit the Atharva Website for more details...
   

Brand 'X' cuse me

Love Marketing???

Do you think 4P’s and 4A’s are all about “Promotion” & “Advertising”???

Then welcome to this year’s “Brand
Xcuse Me”, Atharva Online’s most talked about brand promotion game along with a twist of Xcuses!!!

You think you can do better than those ads and jingles on the idiot-box?

We make your job “simpler” by providing you with the characters in the form of a cartoon strip. All you need to do is come up with some creative/whacky/mind-boggling conversations between the characters in the form of dialogues and promote the given brand.

Simple Right???

Not just yet………. The same cartoon would then be again re arranged in a different formation and you have the task of fitting in the same brand but with a new concept and perhaps even wackier dialogues……

Still Simple???

Redefine marketing communications...All you have is 48 hours!!!

Brand
Xcuse Me

The Game begins on 20th November 2009 23:30 IST
Entries accepted till 22nd November 2009 23:30 IST

Visit the Atharva Website to register and for further details...
     

November 10, 2009

OutCry - The TAPMI Exchange



Move aside Sensex, Nifty or even Dow Jones Index……….TAPEX is here.

The game is a simulation of Open – outcry system, the way trading used to happen at BSE before they moved on to electronic trading. There are no market makers, be it humans or systems! Traders would have to themselves find potential buyers/sellers, according to their requirement, negotiate and finally decide upon the price at which the trade is going to happen and then come to TAPEX (TAPMI Stock Exchange) for the transfer of assets. Conveying the price at which one wants to buy/sell a particular security would be done by shouting out or by using hand signals or could be even a mixture of both.
Can already imagine the excitement? Finance can indeed be fun…

So start exercising your vocal chords and be ready to shout your lungs out while we get to you three hours of nerve-wrecking trading filled with loads of Fun, Frolic and Drama!


Be a part of it in Atharva @ TAPMI from 8th to 10th January 2010!!

Prizes worth:
Winner :- Rs. 10,000
Runners-up :- Rs. 6,000

Do visit the
Atharva Website for more details.
     

November 5, 2009

'Khul Ja Sim Sim' - The online treasure hunt



Atharva Online
in association with TAPMI Systems Group presents its second online event “Khul Ja Sim Sim” in WAVE 1. Well, we've found a new way to challenge your wits. So keep those grey cells working. The Treasure can be hidden anywhere in the whole wide world or rather the world wide Web.

So ..Get.. Set...Click & Start the hunt

To register please click on the link below:
http://www.tapmi.edu.in/atharva/ 

"The HUNT" begins - 6th Nov (Friday) 11pm. Entries will be accepted till 8th Nov (Sunday) 6pm.

Please Note:
  • This game requires individual participation only
  • First Prize Rs.600 and runners-up Rs.400
  • The prize money will be credited to the winners account online
For further details please contact:
Divya (+91 9742502012)
Ritesh (+91 9742510074)

Or you could visit the Atharva Website.
     

October 29, 2009

October 27, 2009

Atharva Online Wave I - Quiz 1



The Bakers Dozen
Atharva Online sets the ball rolling with its first online event “The Bakers Dozen” in WAVE 1. Presented to you in association with Esprit - The Quiz Club of TAPMI, this game challenges you to the battle of erudition. Cross this first hurdle and we promise you an exciting journey ahead!


Come, re-think your intelligence!!!


To register please click on the link below:




The online game will be conducted at 11pm, Thursday October 29, 2009.


PS:
·         This game requires individual participation only.
·         First Prize Rs.600 and runners-up Rs.400.
·         The prize money will be credited to the winners account online.


Contact Details:
Arpita Verma  (+91 9620731656)
Ritesh Mishra (+91 9742510074)


In Association with 
……………..Quiz Club of TAPMI
     

October 15, 2009

Sankalp 2009-10 is Launched!!!


Sankalp is an opportunity for management students to use their creativity and innovativeness to come up with a viable business plan. Sankalp 2009-10 invites entries from management students who do not see the sense in earning money for someone else and would like to go at it alone. So get up, and develop that idea of yours and unleash the spirit of enterprise in you.


And the unique proposition of Sankalp is that if the VCs judging the event commit that if the winning entry meets their investment criteria, they would even fund the idea to a certain extent.


Sankalp 2008-09:
Sankalp 2008-09 had one of India's foremost Venture Capitalists 'JumpStartUp' judging the event. The potential amount they were ready to put in the winning B-Plan (subject to conditions) was upwards of Rs. 1 crore.


Sankalp 2009-10 in brief:
Each participating team can have a maximum of 3 members. In the first stage, each team will have to register themselves in this registration link. Each team will then have to submit an executive summary in soft copy to atharva.tapmi@gmail.com. Based on the executive summary, teams will be shortlisted for the next stage.


In stage II, the shortlisted teams will have to submit their entire business plan in a hard and soft copy to the Atharva Team. Based on the complete business plan, a final shortlist will be released.


The teams that are shortlisted for the final round will get an opportunity to revise their B-Plan by interacting with the intellectual capital of TAPMI, Manipal. They will get to come down to TAPMI and present their B-Plan in front of the Venture Capitalists and TAPMI faculty. 


The winning team get prizes worth Rs. 50,000 while the runners-up get prizes worth Rs. 30,000.


All the Best!!!


Disclaimer: The above details are brief and probably incomplete. The purpose was just to give the reader an idea about the event conducted as a part of the Atharva festival. The reader is encouraged to go through the Atharva website and also the Sankalp Leaflet (also provided in the website) before participating in the event. Please verify the dates and other important details mentioned above with the website as these details may not up to date.
   

October 12, 2009

Induction into Atharva

    
After all the hype and chaos surrounding the application and processes for various committees, the d-day finally arrived when the list came out. And as fate would have it, there it was – my name under Atharva – SPH (‘Scheduling, Planning and Hospitality’ for the un-initiated ). A team of 13 of us from PGP-1 laden with the daunting task of making Atharva 2010 happen. Of course we had the senie team to guide and mentor us.

Well as they say, no work is complete without a bit of fun. So as a ‘surprise’ party, we were taken for a nice outing to a location I certainly will not disclose. With pouring rain on the way, it felt like engineering days all over again. Some day later maybe I’ll blog bout me, the rain and pune. Coming back to the induction party, after having a gala time with the whole gang, we pushed off for dinner at one of the posh restaurants at Udupi. Trust me, the sight of warm soup and hot snacks is enough to make you weak in the knees especially when you are soaked in all the right and wrong places thanks to the rain. Some day that was. Phew !

So after a proper session of fun and play, the team got down to business from the next day onwards. Portfolios were assigned and timelines were discussed. Looks like a lot of hard work awaits us as Atharva draws closer. But as some great man said, “when you gotta go, you gotta go”. So the spirits are high, and the common resolve is to make Atharva 2010 the grandest ever. More on this in the coming blogs.

- Varun Narula
  SPH, Atharva 2009-10