Student’s Association

Objectives:

To promote, encourage and co-ordinate student association, out-of-classroom learning, sports and social activities.
To inculcate technical skills through technical activities like paper presentation, seminars, workshops etc.
To develop soft-skills as well as organizational skills.

Association Structure and Activities:

To achieve the motive ITSA has committee formed for every academic year for the smooth conduction of various activities. Students from First to Final year of Information Technology department are involved in these activities.

ITSA was reformed in the year 2017-18 by the final year students of Information Technology Department. Previously, it was a joint venture of Computer Engineering and Information Technology Students, known as ASCI (Association of Students of Computer and IT) formed in 2004-05. The sole purpose in forming this association was to bring students together and to provide them the platform to nurture their talent.

Thus ITSA was formed to groom up the students’ innovation, talent and skills.

Core Committee Members Academic Year 2023-2024

Sr. No	Portfolio	Name
1	Chairman	Dr. S.A.Mahajan
2	Staff Coordinator	Prof. M.R.Mahajan
3	General Secretary	Shreekar Kulkarni
4	Joint General Secretary	Shruti Kulkarni
5	Team Finance	Vipul Nagrani Niraj Palmur
6	Team Web and Tech	Akansha Thakar Sameer Jahagirdar Siddhesh Kukade Piyush Gundecha
7	Team Design and Production	Mitesh Kulkarni Chetan Wanave
8	Team Event Management	Anushka Kulkarni Soham Kulkarni
9	Team Operations and Public Relations	Abhishek Sabale Sahil Kulkarni
10	Team Social Media	Omkar Tilekar Pritam Patil

Activities Conducted By ITSA 2023-24

Sr. No	Name of Event	Date
1	ITSA Interviews for Core Committee Selection	31st August 2023
2	ITSA Interviews for SE and TE Students	11th & 12th Sept 2023
3	Orientation Session on “Smart India Hackathon”	13th Sep 2023
4	ITSA Inauguration	15th Sept 2023
5	Ice Breaking Session for ITSA Members	17th Oct 2023
6	Photo walk Session	29th Oct 2023
7	WordPress Workshop For TE IT Students	21st Oct 2023
8	Diwali Photography Competition	15th Nov 2023
9	Diwali Rangoli Competition	9th to 16th Nov 2023
10	ITSA Coding Competition	January 2024
11	Expert session on Research Paper Writing	22^nd Feb 2024
12	Social Cause Event: Donation Drive	10^th Mar 2024
13	Three Days Workshop on “Augmented & Virtual Reality”	11^th to 13^th March 2024

Academic Year 2022-23

Activities Conducted By ITSA 2022-23

Sr. No	Name of Event	Date
1	ITSA Committee Interview	8^th August 2022
2	ITSA Inauguration 2022-23	14^th October 2022
3	Photography and Rangoli Competition	28^th October 2022
4	WordPress Workshop	5^th November 2022
5	Preparation for Air-force career and life during the career	13^th December 2022
6	ACM Student Chapter Inauguration & Technical Talk by Mr.Tushar Desai	13^th February 2023
7	Technical Event: Escape Room Non-Technical Event: Scribble with Twist	13^th February 2023
8	Women’s Day Celebration	9^th March 2023
9	Social cause event – Donation Drive	27^th March 2023
10	Opportunities in Software Sales and Marketing workshop	19^th April 2023
11	Fiesta’23 Technical Events: · Speed coding · Design Jam Non-Technical Events: · Taskmaster · Word Wizard	5^th & 6^th May 2023
12	Project Competition 2023	5^th May 2023
13	ITSA Year End Function & BE Farewell	23^rd May 2023

Academic Year 2021-22

Activities Conducted By ITSA 2021-22

Program Title	Objective/Purpose of Program
ITSA Committee Interviews	Interviews for technical and non-technical teams were conducted. ITSA family became bigger by addition of SE and TE members.
BollyQuiz and LogoQuiz	It was the first event organized for the academic year 2021-22. The host of the event was Aanchal Agarwal from BE IT. Chetna Randive organized this fun event. She conducted an online quiz on the Kahoot platform. . In BollyQuiz questions were based on Bollywood movies and LogoQuiz consisted of different logos and you have to identify the correct one.
Introduction to Competitive Coding	It was the first technical event arranged by ITSA in this academic year. The basic idea for organizing this event was to introduce what is coding to the students which will be beneficial for all the students. It was conducted by Gaurav Khairnar from BE IT, who is experienced in coding. He introduced different platforms for coding and gave a basic idea about what topics are included in them. He demonstrated one example to all the students. All the students of the IT Department from SE to BE have participated. Later a Kahoot quiz was organized to test the knowledge of attendees and all the students participated with joy and enthusiasm. Winners of the Kahoot Quiz were: Tanvi(SE), Harsh Ekbote(SE), and Saurabh(BE).
Web Wizards	ITSA had organized an event called Web Wizards which was conducted virtually. The event timeline was for 72 hours from 1^st October to 4^th October in which participants had to submit their creative websites. The submissions were taken on the Google Drive platform. A total of 19 students participated from SE and TE. There was 1 Winner and 1 Runner-Up from SE and TE.
Mock Placements Drive	Association of Computer Engineering Students, Google Developer Student Club PVGCOET, and Information Technology Students Association came together with an exciting event for the year 2021-22, Mock Placements Drive. This event was organized for students from SE to BE of all departments. The main aim was to make aware of the actual interview selection process of campus placements and test their skills and give the necessary feedback. It was completely a free-of-cost event. The drive took place in 3 stages: Aptitude Test + Optional Coding Test Technical Interview HR Interview
Photography Contest	On the event of Diwali ITSA had organized a photography contest for all the students.
Social cause event – Donation Drive	The Information Technology Students’ Association (ITSA) organized a donation drive for a social cause. A donation drive was organized for Matoshree Old Age Home located at Karvenagar, Pune. The primary objective was to help the Senior citizens in all the possible ways the students could. Everyone was given 5 days for donations. Donations were collected by Rujuta Sarlashkar, Head of Team Finance through Google Pay mode. The total donations collected at the end of the drive were around Rs. 13,000/- contributed voluntarily by the students and faculty members. The visit was held on the 21st of January 2022. Due to covid – 19 restrictions, it was decided that only a few members of the ITSA committee will visit old age home. ITSA observed great responses from students and faculty members for raising funds for this donation drive.
Let’s Build with Android	ITSA had arranged a 2 day session on “Android”. It was conducted by Ashok Chaudhari an esteemed alumni of PVG COET. He gave basic idea about what is Android and Kotlin language on the first day of the workshop. He demonstrated one example to all the students. The session lasted for around 2 hours on both the days. The basic idea for organising this event was to introduce new and upcoming technology of Android with Kotlin which will be beneficial for all the students.
Fiesta’22 – Technical event, Treasure Hunt	It was ITSA’s first offline event after the pandemic. This event was a combination of a technical event and a treasure hunt. Technical sessions were delivered by students from BE IT. Technical session topics were – 1. Preparing for higher studies 2. How to earn 17 LPA: study go work Japan 3. Placement orientation The treasure hunt was organized followed by a technical session was a really fun event. All-year participants enjoyed themselves a lot and Third Year participants celebrated victory. Summing up this event was an amazing event with a combination of knowledge and enjoyment.

Academic Year 2020-21

Activities Conducted By ITSA 2020-21

Program Title

Objective/Purpose of Program

ITSA Committee Interviews

Interviews for technical and non-technical teams were conducted. ITSA family became bigger by addition of SE and TE members.

WordPress Workshop

ITSA arranged a workshop on 10 th November to make students aware about WordPress platform. The training was held from home on an online platform from 1:00-2.30 PM for 1.5 hours. The workshop was conducted by Shreya Mahajan and Sakshi Chidrewar from BE IT. Students from Third Year and Second Year of Information Technology department participated in the workshop. From basic concepts to publishing their own website, all parts were included. It was a good hands-on experience.

The main objective behind the training workshop on WordPress was to get the delegates learn the essential ins and outs of designing an attractive website – from scratch.

Webinar on

Cloud Computing

An Alumni Connect event on 28 th November. The speaker for this event was Akshay Kokane. He is a java developer at one trust in Atlanta,GA . The basic idea to arrange this event was to give students more idea about Cloud Computing technology which is widely used in

industry currently. The event was held virtually through Google meet platform and the whole session lasted for 2 hrs from 9:30 am to 11.40am. The students participated in the event were from second year and Third Year from all the departments of our college.

Game of Codes

A technical event ‘Game Of Codes’. It was a weekly coding competition for all the coding enthusiasts. It was an interesting challenge among all the students. It started from 28 th January and was held for 3 weeks. Each week had a different theme and it was disclosed on every Monday. Thursday, Friday, Saturday was the time given to write the code. There were 3 questions per group. The TE and BE together were clubbed in same category and SE in other category. 6 weekly winners (3 from TE/BE and 3 from SE) were announced and were given a special mention through ITSA’s Instagram account.There were total 65 participants and all Department students participated actively. The competition was held on HackerRank platform where the problem statements were uploaded.

मराठी भाषा संवर्धन पंधरवडा

माहिती तंत्रज्ञान अयोजित

निबंध स्पर्धा व परिच्छेद अनुवाद

संयोजक :

शिक्षक प्रतिनिधी- प्रा. एस. ए. देशपांडे.

विद्यार्थी प्रतिनिधी – सुशांत वेर्णेकर, रिया पारेख.

दि 25 जानेवारी रोजी पुणे विद्यार्थी गृहाचे अभियांत्रिकी व तंत्रज्ञान महाविद्यालय आणि जी. के. पाटे (वाणी) इन्स्टिट्यूट ऑफ

मॅनेजमेंट, पुणेच्या माहिती तंत्रज्ञान शाखेनी निबंधलेखन व परिच्छेद अनुवाद स्पर्धा आयोजित केली होती. ह्या स्पर्धेत सर्व

विभागाच्या विद्यार्थ्यांनी भाग घेतला होता. स्पर्धा google classroom ह्या माध्यमातून दुपारी ०२:०० ते ०५:०० घेतली

गेली. सर्व विद्यार्थांनी मनापासून व उत्सहानी भाग घेतला. ह्या स्पर्धेत १२ सहभागी स्पर्धक होते. १० स्पर्धक निबंध लेखन व २

स्पर्धक परिच्छेद अनुवाद स्पर्धेत आनंदानी सहभागी झlले.

Soft Skills Workshop

ITSA arranged a Soft Skills Workshop for students on 27 nd March. The host of the event was Reena Athalye(Delivery Manager, e-zest). Our speaker is a behavioral Skills Trainer & Facilitator.

She conducted an online session on Presentation Skills. It was hosted virtually on Google meet. The basic idea to arrange this event was to make students know about resume building, interview skills and group discussions.

The students participating in the event were from first year to final year from all the departments of our college.

The main objective behind the event was to give students practical knowledge about interviews, group discussions and tips about resume building.

Research Paper Publishing

ITSA arranged a one to one informative session for students on 22 nd March. The host of the event was Dr. S.D. Thepade,Ph.D.(Comp).He conducted an online session on the topic Research Paper Writing and Publishing. It was hosted on an online meeting platform called Google meet.

The students participating in the event were from first year to final year from all the departments of our college. The main objective behind the event was to give students knowledge about the Research papers and publishing.

Academic Year 2019-20

Activities Conducted By ITSA 2019-20

Program Title	Objective/Purpose of Program
WordPress Workshop	To make students aware about wordpress platform.The workshop was conducted by Aditya Zingade and Amod Sahasrabudhe from BE IT.The workshop was arranged for TE IT students to get the ins and outs of designing an attractive website from start to end.
ITSA Committee Interviews	Interviews for technical and non-technical teams were conducted. ITSA family became bigger by addition of SE and TE members.
Teachers’ Day Celebration	ITSA hosted an event for all the staff of IT department on behalf of all the students, on the occasion of Teachers’ Day.
Social Cause Event	The committee paid a visit to the underprivileged children and senior citizens living at Kunjavan Samajik Seva Sanstha in kari,Bhor.ITSA conducted a general knowledge quiz for the kids ,also taught about computer and shared career guidance.
Cyber Security and Ethical hacking workshop	ITSA arranged a workshop on “Ethical Hacking “to teach students about hacking concepts.The participants were from BE IT.The speaker for the workshop was Mrs.Pradnya Pophalikar who is Information and Cyber Security consultant.There were theorotical part as well as hands on sessions were covered. .
Android Development Workshop	ITSA arranged a workshop to train students in core android development.The workshop was conducted at TNP hall and whole workshop session lasted for 2 days.The workshop was conducted by Mr.Jayant Gupta sir for the students from SE IT,TE IT and BE IT.
FE Interaction	ITSA took a step ahead by connecting with the students of First year IT.
Kurukshetra Lan gaming Event	LAN gaming event conducted by ITSA.

Academic Year 2018-19

Activities Conducted By ITSA 2018-19

Program Title	Objective/Purpose of Program
Python Workshop	ITSA organized this workshop on python. Mr. Pratik lonkar conducted this workshop.
ITSA Committee Interviews	Interviews for technical and non-technical teams were conducted. ITSA family became bigger by addition of SE and TE members.
Git Workshop	ITSA organised a workshop on Git, which is one of the most important tools in software development.
Overlays Workshop	Sidography Studios conducted the Overlays workshop. Workshop included Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premier Pro, Adobe After Effects and Poster Designing.
Clean Coding workshop	“Any fool can write code a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that HUMANS can understand” A workshop was held by Chinmay Jaiswal on Clean Coding.
Teachers’ Day Celebration	ITSA hosted an event for all the staff of IT department on behalf of all the students, on the occasion of Teachers’ Day.
FE Interaction	ITSA took a step ahead by connecting with the students of First year IT.
Kurukshetra Lan gaming Event	College level LAN gaming event conducted by ITSA.
Fiesta’19	Launched first version of whole and sole departmental event, Contaning technical as well as non-technical events.
ITSA Social Cause	Various activites were conducted by ITSA to help kids from rural area in association with robin hood army.