Priorities:KLS Gogte Institute of Technology Student Priorities

Strategy #1: “Creating innovative mind-set among students and spreading entrepreneurial skills” by Chethan Kumar R E.

There’s a lot of buzz going on in the world about Innovation and Entrepreneurship and rightly everyone needs to be aware of it. And so should be our peers aware about I & E opportunities around them. Having everything in the campus easily accessible to every student is every college’s objective. Likewise, we would be excited to create a platform where in a student could have ease of access about Incubation centres and entrepreneurial cells in the college. We will also have student know about every innovative competition that is live and they can take part in. We feel this is most necessary and hence would be working towards bridging the gap between students and I & E opportunities.

 Tactic #1: Create an app called ‘GIT I&E’ with all the necessary details about I&E resources available in the campus like startups and incubation centres.

Tactic #2: Conduct awareness programmes about the need of Innovation in the present world and make student develop a prototype of their innovative ideas.

Tactic #3: Make peers realise the need to empathize the problems around them.

Tactic #4: Motivate students to participate in Innovative competitions.

Tactic #5: Inviting Entrepreneurs to the college for talks and workshops which will serve as a source of inspiration to the peers.

Tactic #6: Provide a platform for students to connect with successful entrepreneurs to seek motivation and entrepreneurial skills.

Strategy #2: To develop on campus mutual learning and mentorship concept amongst students- Neeraj Deshpande

Group studies have always been preferred for peer to peer learning . As on campus change agents, it would be our priority to change the way peer to peer studying works. So in order to make it more productive and interactive, knowledgeable and to change the traditional studying method on campus, we plan to build a mentorship forum application. The application will be exclusively utilized to connect a mentor student and a mentee. The application would provide the opportunity for students to register as a mentor or a mentee, and start an exercise of mutual learning. The platform would fill the void of ranged academic assistance for the student and can connect the mentee to the mentor of his/her choice. The app provides various features like notes sharing, querying and answering questions. Also updates that the student mentor wants to convey can be done through this application. The students can request for mentorship through this forum from their desired choice list provided.

TACTIC 1:Motivate senior students of the college to take up mentorship.

TACTIC 2:Encourage students to go for mentorship forum to get connected to their mentors or mentees on the forum.

TACTIC 3: Host frequent one to one sessions for mentors and mentees.

TACTIC 4:Set up a periodic feedback mechanism and make changes for better learning experience between mentor and mentee.

TACTIC 5:Encourage the mentees to take up mentorship once they find progress in their academics, so that the learning process never stops.

TACTIC 6:Provide  a provision in the app for the faculty members to review the progress.

 

Strategic #3:  To have a makerspace in the campus and encourage interdepartmental collaborations. – Pratiksha Nagarkatte

Makerspaces provide students with access to hands on, state of the art prototyping technologies, encourage collaboration between diverse teams of students from all years and majors, bolster design within engineering curricula, and extracurricular activities and enable students to tackle open-ended, real world challenge. Furthermore, they empower students to fabricate their own design, which helps them to achieve a deeper learning experience, and gain higher satisfaction, also contributing to producing more student entrepreneurs.

With the increased attention to the role of design throughout the engineering curriculum, the increased awareness of the value of active learning and team based problem solving, the increased support for both faculty-led and student-led entrepreneurship activities, all coupled with the culture shift on college campuses influenced by the maker movement have played major role in inspiring universities to invest in Makerspaces.

 Tactic #1: Introducing STEM education:

 An interdisciplinary approach to learning where rigorous academic concepts are coupled with real world lessons as students apply science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Tactic #2: Identify a space in the campus, which could be potentially used as a makerspace

Tactic #3: Identify the resources already available and State the Requirements that could be made available

Tactic #4:Have a student run organisation for the functioning of the makerspace along with a faculty mentor and associated professors.

Strategy #4: Inculcating the process of creative thinking in the campus. – Mirage J
One of the most important quality in the field of innovation and entrepreneurship is creative thinking. “Think out of the box” is what everybody says, but practically only a few apply it.  Problem solving and critical thinking have been a major criterion in the present years. Having a fresh perspective to one challenge is always a benefit.
To come up with non-obvious, non-orthodox solutions is what people will require in the coming time. So, to prepare the students to create numerous solutions for coming challenges, creative thinking has to be inculcated.

#Tactic 1: Implementing “creative thinking” as a minor subject with credits.

#Tactic 2: Having activities like “The marshmallow challenge” in every session, which will promote team work and other skills.

#Tactic 3: Identifying problems in the camps and finding solutions by creative thinking methods and practically implementing the best ones.
Advantage: Having numerous solutions to one given problem.

#Tactic 4: Inviting alumni placed in reputed companies to share the importance of creative thinking in corporate companies.
 
#Tactic 5: Having brainstorming sessions on weekly basis to discuss on the burning topics in innovation and entrepreneurship and finding solutions in a creative manner.

 

Written by:

Chethan Kumar R E

Neeraj Deshpande

Pratiksha Nagarkatte

Mirage Joshi

Leadership circle - Fall 2017:

Sanjana Baliga

Sanjana Gombi

Sagar Shinde

Ajay Chandrapattan

Other links:

Leadership circle - Fall 2016 :

1.Shriya Hukkeri

2.Samarth Mendke

Campus overview 

Pitch video

KLS Gogte Institute of Technology (Website)