STARC 2016

Dear All,

President's Office is organizing a two days gathering: "Students' Technical & Academic Research Convention" on April 2-3, 2016 to motivate budding researchers with the aim to provide a common platform to students of all degrees and disciplines to interact on the "research front" which has always been the symbol of IIT Kanpur.

About the program:
STARC is aimed at encouraging research among the students. In the event, the students will be asked to submit the abstract of their research work. After initial screening, they will be asked to present their work in any of the following categories-
-Idea/Implementation
-Oral Presentation
-Poster

Apart from this, we are also planning some guest lectures and exhibition for SIDBI industries. The event will also witness SnT Expo and the Snt Day in coordination with the Science and Technology Council. A similar convention was organized in 2014.

About the competition:
The student (or team of students (not more than 3)) is supposed to electronically submit a short article centered to applied research at [email protected] by March 18, 2016.

The event is not restricted to students who are currently pursuing research in certain disciplines. Your work could be as simple as application of the Pythagoras Theorem or something you presented in science fair at school level. Your submission could be proposal of an idea, implementation of a concept or review of present method to solve a real-life problem. It can contain hardware and/or software components. The author can use figures and tables to support their explanation in their abstracts.

Format:
- Not more than 3 A4 pages(including all figures & tables)
- 1" margin on all sides
- Times New Roman/Calibri/Consolas fonts
- headings 14 pt. bold
- contents 12 pt.
- 1.5 line spacing.
Kindly fill the following Google doc to participate:
http://goo.gl/forms/wdaHX44cEG (In case of a single student, he/she need not fill the member 2 and member 3 column).
Submit your article in pdf format and name your file as ".pdf"(Use roll no. of first team member as file name in case of a group of students).

Judging and Prizes:
Based on your article submission, you will be called for presentation and the entries shall then be judged by a panel of experts, including IIT Kanpur faculty members. Top three entries in each category will be awarded with attractive cash prizes.

A certificate of participation will be awarded to all the participants. Moreover, 10 merit prizes will be awarded in various categories such as Best Idea/Implementation, Best Poster, Best Oral Presentation, etc.

Note: There is no registration fee for participation.
The final schedule and venue of the event shall be intimated shortly.

In case of any queries, kindly mail to [email protected] or contact:
Sandesh Kumar: 7376148359
Vijay Pal: 8090377917
Ashutosh Ranka: 7754915981

Hoping for a huge response,

Best Wishes,
STARC-2016
IIT Kanpur

STARC 2016: Article Submission Please send your articles to [email protected] with your file name as "Roll_no(member-1).pdf"