Student Project Contests

This news story is about an amazing set of competition ideas for those who love to design and construct machines and/or program them. National Institute of Technology, Suratkal in India, will be hosting an event named Engineer 2007 during March 7-11, 2007. Pity it is so soon. But don't despair; read on.

Visit the site

http://www.engineer.org.in/events.php

and read about the challenges set for contestents in Robotics, Computer Science events including one on applications for a three-degrees-of-feedom mouse named Mushaca see

http://ssl.serc.iisc.ernet.in/~manohar/Research/MushacaManif/mushaca.htm

and a "Kode Kombat". There is also an Electronics challenge involving the extraction of information from a video stream.

The ideas are thought provoking; and, who knows, you might decide to take up one of these challenges just for the fun of it.

Srinivasan Ramani