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