Activities
The college organizes an annual cultural event Vidyuth, in which students from the other colleges in the city participate. Since 2004, VVCE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers student branch organizes an annual technical symposium called IMPULSE. The Department of Mechanical Engineering organizes its annual fest CRUSADES in which various students of Mechanical, Industrial Production, and Automobile from the city participate. Crusades has so far drawn lot of attention among the events held in VVCE. So its worth a special mention.
Crusades was for the first time organized by Mechanical Engineering students of 8th semester. It was one of the kind event, which set a precedent for many events to follow. It won accolades for its unparalleled approach. Crusades had a total of 20 events which attracted hundreds of students across the city. All 20 events was organized successfully by group 5 enthusiastic students from 8th sem of mechanical Engineering. Events won lot applauds for out of box thinking, some of the events like floodlight cricket, pani puri competition were held for first time in city. Crusades was instrumental in organizing a marathon attracting 350 students from all over Mysore.
The Mechanical Engineering department also organizes a series of Technical Talks called SETME. Association of Students of Computer and Information Science Engineering, ASCI. The association organizes a yearly event called TechnoBlitz, which started in 2007, and is a technical symposium focusing on current trends in the computer industry.
The new group of Computer Science department called as TECSA holds two main events every year, one is Synapse and the other is Fragg Zone. Synapse includes various technical events which is focused mainly on Computer Science and Fragg Zone is a gaming event. Synapse and Fragg Zone have seen good success in the past two years, that is from the time of formation of Tecsa and both of the events are run by students only, taking minimum monetary aid from the department. Future plans of Synapse includes, but not limited to getting various public figures to speak for the students of CS Department, to guide them into an excellent future.
College students are known for participating in various social service activities like blood donation, AIDS awareness and Tree plantation. In order to imbibe recent trends and technologies among the students Seminars and special lectures are frequently held.
The college recently inaugurated various clubs which are run by the students.
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