Horizon (Festival)

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Horizon is the annual science and technology festival of Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology, Sarang. Horizon can be redefined as The Confluence of knowledge and strength that set new heights in the history of technical knowledge bringing forward new IDeaS and thoughts. It is a platform where many minds arrive together to fight for a creative war. Horizon is known for hosting a variety of events that include competitions, exhibitions, lectures as well as workshops. The idea of Horizon was conceived with the aim to provide the technically inclined youth a national-level platform, where their talent and expertise would be recognized and duly rewarded. Having grown exponentially since its nascent years, Horizon receives overwhelming participation from the student community all over the country.

History and Growth

After some years of discontinuity, Horizon revived in 2014 with the efforts of some young and talented brains. It gained popularity and got recognition as a grand technical fest throughout Odisha. AbOUT 2600 footfalls in its first EDition of the fest.

Horizon'14

IGIT witnessed a 3-day carnival of tech show bonanza and a lot of events. The techno-cultural fest started of with a small inauguration ceremony with light dance numbers and MusicAL night with the very own "Accoustica" performing to the delight of the audience. The next tym days consisted of events having a bit of desi flavour such as "gully cricket" and also brain-storming sessions of events like "Scavengio". The highlight of the fest was a display of events by every branch of the college. CSE had events such as "troubleshooting" and EXCITING events such as "Google-it" and the main event such as "junkyard wars" and "roboveda". There was also a treasure hunt in which over 500 people ran for the coveted treasure. The night was musical with bands from all over the state performing tunes and the Flash mob organized by the students of IGIT. Events such as "lyrics interpretation", "zah reh", and the IGIT version of ROADIES, the i.roadies. At the closure of this carnival were the rockstars from Kolkata, "the sixth veda", performing hit numbers.

Events

Competitions

  • Trouble-Shooting
  • Coding
  • Google it!
  • Obliturret
  • Breaking Bad
  • Digital DaVinci
  • bhag ohm bhag
  • ElectricoDeciphera
  • Periodic ABC
  • Breakdown
  • Scavengio
  • Spark Test
  • Metallography
  • Junkyard
  • Hydrorocket
  • Roboveda
  • Colloqualism
  • Zah-reh

Workshops and Lectures

Lecture Series, the most distinguished segment of Horizon has the sole motive to give students an opportunity to interact with their role models. Every year Horizon plays host to a number of eminent personalities from a variety of fields, articulating their thoughts and elaborating on their well known works, ranging from current rages to the age old topics. Lectures at Horizon are known for informative and interactive sessions between speakers and the enthusiastic audience.

Workshops play an important role in fulfilling Horizon vision of bringing the students face to face with the latest technology that is storming the world. These workshops are organized under expert guidance from various fields and are known to attract a lot of students owing to their repute and quality content. Over the past few years workshops in Android App Development, Ethical Hacking,Artificial Intelligence,etc have given an enriching experience to participants.

Fun Events

  • Logo Vita
  • Counter Strike 1.6
  • Fifa 11
  • NFS Most Wanted
  • Dota
  • Gully Cricket
  • Treasure Hunt
  • Laser-tag
  • Lyric Interpretation
  • i-ROADIES
  • Collage
  • Wrap-it
  • Snap-it
  • Pictorial Extempore
  • Face Painting
  • Ad-mad
  • Win it
  • Feed the Monkey

Cultural Events

  • Band Battle
  • War of DJs
  • Pro-nite

Structure and Organisation

Horizon is an entirely student organized body. The Team is also known as the SOCH Team (Students Organizing Committee of Horizon). A team of two Coordinators and some managers along with their respective event organizers work in sync to execute and implement the activities of the festival. Each Manager has a portfolio assigned to him which can be broadly categorized into two sections - administration and events. The administrative portfolios primarily include tasks like accounts, infrastructure, marketing, hospitality, publicity and media along with helping with the events. The events portfolios include responsibility for each of the numerous happenings and initiatives taken by Horizon each year. Each manager then has his own team. The coordinators look after the overall event and are responsible for its success. They help the managers in looking into the finer details of the department and ensuring that ideas of the team are executed smoothly.

  1. www.igithorizon.in
  2. Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology, Sarang
  3. umapedias : Horizon 14