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== Overview ==

= FALL 2021 COHORT =

Our student priorities are shown below:

#VVIT Alumni Connect

== Priority 1: Tech Discussion Forums ==

Technology has taken a tremendous role in our day to day life. We all are in a generation where everything is dependent on technology. Right from the ringing of the morning alarm to switching off the fan, everything runs behind the technology. So, to keep ourselves updated with the current technologies we have an idea of introducing Tech Discussion Forums where the purpose of a forum is to engage different groups of the same space together so they discuss some topic or give their opinion about the discussion going on.

=== How are we going to do it? ===

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=== How will students get benefitted? ===

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== Priority 2: Campus Quora ==

We want to provide an open house platform to clear all the doubts regarding the campus ecosystem, infrastructure, academics, campus facilities and any other doubts regarding campus life. This allows anyone to post queries related to campus and the students or the faculty members will only have the access to answer the queries. This helps anyone to get their doubt clarified as fast as possible.

=== How are we going to do it? ===

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=== How it helps? ===

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== Priority 3: Clubs ==

From this year, as UIF candidates we want to start conducting club days for each club once a year where the student has a platform to showcase his/her talent which they improved throughout the year. We also encourage and provide the necessary support to the students for taking the top certification exams in their respective interests so that it can help them to get a job in their interested field.

In the pandemic, the college could not provide efficient space to conduct clubs every week. Adding on to club days each year, we also devised a plan to implement online clubs if the teaching method moves to an online platform again.

=== What we do on club days? ===

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=== How are we going to conduct online clubs? ===

<li>We will be using the regular online platform that our college uses.</li>

<li>Every club will have a resource person along with 2 faculty members and 2 student coordinators.</li>

<li>During the session, the resource person will be teaching the lesson related to the particular club whereas all the attendees will be doing the things as instructed by the resource person ~~and 2 faculty members and 2 student~~.</li>

<li>Coordinators will be monitoring the entire session.</li>

<li>Weekly assignments are also given to the students. The assignments given are evaluated and feedback is sent to the respective students.</li>

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== Priority 4: VVIT Alumni Connect ==

The website we are going to create is a communicable website in which only students of our college will have the access of logging in to the website and updating their current status and all the other members will only have access to visit the website.

This helps students to interact with passed-out students of our college. In order to be more specific, this website helps the students to get solved any queries related to their careers. They are given space to interact with their respective field seniors. Since the graduates are aware of outside job opportunities they can also give suggestions to students who are currently studying at our college. It will also have the number of students present at the different locations.

=== How are we going to benefit? ===

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= FALL 2019 COHORT =

Our student priorities are shown below:

#CapGen

== Priority 1: Hands-On Learning ==

=== How are we going to do it? ===

Initially we want to plan it as a pilot project.

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=== What exactly are the students going to learn?</span~~><br/~~> ===

Our motive is to make the students self reliant in terms of repairing and managing their electronic gadgets like phone, laptop, computer. Initially we will focus on the following general problems:

Then we will extend it to other dimensions.

=== The Next Level ===

<li>We will conduct a session for the registered students. Depending upon the number of students we will use the relevant number of resource persons.</li>

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== Priority 2:UNSCRAP ==

=== How are we going to do this?</span~~><br/~~> ===

The main idea is to assign students with restoring gadgets/ scrap devices as intra-branch projects and restore them to maximum potential. Methods to promote include:

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<div> </div>== Priority 3: Clubs ==

=== How clubs are going to be made more productive? ===

*Providing Certifications to Club Members

*Inter & Intra-College Competitions shall be encouraged and held more often.

== Priority 4: Peer Teaching ==

=== How are we going to bring change? ===

*No other classes during this time.

*Appreciating best speakers of each class with titles.

== Priority 5: CapGen</span~~><br/~~> ==

The resources required for the prototype are:

*The CapGen team is selected systematically under the expert guidance of the faculty.

=== The vision of our prototype</span~~><br/~~> ===

*Set up a yearly fair where all the students can expose their hidden talents in all possible ways and make money through it OR The school fest can be used for this purpose.

*Make all the students to convert their talent into a product and make money through it.

=== Platforms utilised in the CapGen Event</span~~><br/~~> ===

*Photo booth for friends and family which is the present craze around.

*Converting a scrap into a new product.

= FALL 2018 and 2017 COHORT =

University Innovation Fellows Spring 2017 Pitch Video

== '''Strategy 1: Peer teaching sessions''' ==

This idea is all about creating a beautiful platform for the students to enlighten and bring out the innovative thinking ability in them, and at the same time to effectively express their idea. We believe that peer Teaching is the best way to make this happen. We already have peer teaching classes going on in our daily classroom schedule. But the activities are not being executed in the way they are to be done. This might be due to the fact that students have an unnerving feel as they think they were forced to participate in the activities which might seem boring to them. So, changing the way these activities happen inside a classroom that students might be interested in, can help them grab opportunity to work in a team and learn something that would improve their knowledge.

=== '''How PT can be interesting:''' ===

#Instead of faculty, students from senior classes may be designated to lead the classes

#To avoid monotony, different activities many planned from session to session.

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=== '''Possible issues:''' ===

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*As seniors are assigned as mentors to freshmen, they might not mingle in the team.

*Availability of senior students who can effectively lead the sessions might be a problem.

*Students might not want to participate in a team all of a sudden.

==== '''Hope of solving these issues''' ====

Faculty members mentor seniors, helping them solve the issues with the freshmen. Seniors to be awarded credits for their commitment to peer teaching sessions. Feedback from the members of a team lead by that senior, may fetch him/her credits. This puts senior students in their path as they help peers to participate in the activities.

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=== '''I&E ecosystem via PT''' ===

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==== '''Student Collaboration ''' ====

In these sessions, students meet their fellows more personally. They talk to each other, and we believe that this is the initial stage of innovative mindset, such ecosystem can be developed across the campus. This helps students to understand the resources on campus.

==== '''Grabbing every opportunity''' ====

Participating in a team activity develops thought process that helps a student to know what interests him/her. Thus, they come to know what all opportunities they have at the moment. With the help of their team lead or the assigned senior, they can connect to the right way to grab an opportunity.

==== '''Connecting to campus resources''' ====

By collaborating with seniors and thereby faculty, students will get to know resources that the college has to offer them. Knowing the availability of resources, students will think of using them for their own growth leading to innovation & entrepreneurship.

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== ~~ ~~'''STRATEGY 2 : TECHNOLOGY, ENTERTAINMENT, DESIGN CLUB''' ==

A TED-Ed club in the college is a great way to boost the communivation skills, and as well as let students know about the trending technologies. The effect of laughter on someone who’s sad. The danger and excitement of dirt biking. The reason human beings need so much sleep. The thought of infinity.

Through TED-Ed Clubs, students — with the help of an adult facilitator — identify and research the ideas that matter to them most. And while TED-Ed Clubs offer students the opportunity to connect with others who, like them, are unabashedly curious about the world, TED-Ed Clubs are also about presentation literacy. TED-Ed Clubs offer students a hands-on opportunity to work on the storytelling and communication skills that will be vital, no matter what career path they end up strolling down.

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=== How it works: ===

In TED-Ed Clubs, students work together to discuss and celebrate creative ideas. Club leaders receive TED-Ed's flexible Clubs curriculum to guide their school's club and to help inspire tomorrow's TED speakers and leaders.

'''Start Talking:'''  "How can your idea change the world?" By the end of their club cycle, members will have recorded their very own talk and uploaded it to our TED-Ed Clubs YouTube channel, which can then be shared with their families, friends, communities and the world.

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=== '''Design Thinking: ''' ===

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The TED-Ed club is precisely based on design thinking. We are going to recruit members for this club without the seniority in the college. The recruitment process ends with an interview preceded by a psychometric test. Interviewers will be senior UIF fellows. This club concentrates on the strategies of the college education and tries to improve it so that the students will be benefited in learning rather than in spoon-feeding. The members of the Club will help the faculty to nomiate candidates to UIF for the concerned term. This club takes all the ideas and problems, which the institution is not aware of, to the notice of the personnel who could make time and solve the problems and implement the useful ideas. The Club can also help the college administration by helping to formulate different ways to solve problems realted to both academics and infrastructure.

== '''STRATEGY 3: Re-Designing The College Time Table''' ==

The main reason behind selecting this problem is to explore the hidden skills of the students by providing them a time to get exposed to different things like sports, extra-curricular clubs, peer teaching session etc. In regular curriculum, students are not having much time to get exposed to those things. So we plan to re-design the time table of my college, and propose it to our administrators for its best implemention.

It provides students an effective Innovation space and allows them to do much more. They are allowed to do more in their area of interest. In regular curriculum, only 3–4 periods are given to extra curricular activities per week. But in re-designed one, the students will have at least two such periods for the day.  The new curriculum will have more emphasis on student's exposure to practical learning techniques. Current time table only allows three pairs of periods for the students to spend time and experiment their ideas in labs. The new time table will atleast have a pair of periods per day dedicated to labs or similar facilities on the campus.

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== '''Strategy 4: Spreading The Concept Of "OPEN ACCESS"''' ==

Awareness and contribution to "Open Society" initiatives is one of the most important to methods to check the institutions role and impact on the society. However, in the present situation, the culture of "Open Access" on the campus can be rated as 3/10. With the following strategies, it can be developed to 7/10 in a period one year.

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The first step of this strategy is create awareness among the students, staff, and the administration, about "Open Access", its need and importance. To achieve this goal, the major cut will be hosting an OpenCon satellitive event. OpenCon satellite events are hosted a sub regional events of annual OpenCon (similar to TEDx under TED). Again, the 3rd week of October is globally celebrated as Open Access week. During this week, various sessions can be organized for the students.Another important way is to place Did You Know (DYK) posters from Wikipedia, and info with the interesting facts about Open Access and QR codes more information.

In the process of implementing this strategy, the by-products are as follows: students involved will enchance thier organizing, and problem solving skills, and the design thinking is adopted to improvise the ways to implement this startegy. Various organizations may also show interest due to the culture, and support can be obtained from government as well.

== '''Strategy 5: Re-Designing The Academic Curriculum''' ==

This strategy is about re-designing the academic curriculum of the college in way that it helps the student to excel more in his/her area of interest. In the present curriculum, students only have the choice to pursue the subjects as mandated by the affialiated University. Though some flexibility is provided at the the end of the gradution course, it is being limited due to certain constraints the college has. Even then, the electives are not so wide enough for the students to excel in their own interest, and these electives are mostly related to their own branch. For students, those who wish to pursue subjects from other streams are unable to do it.

As a part of this process, to inculcate design thinking and innovation among the students, the open electives that are inter-disciplinary must insisted upon the students to study on their own. Instead of regular classes, as the students choose the subject from out of their own interest, they should be aksed to work on the subject, and then have an Q&A session with the teacher to clarify their doubts in the process of their learning. This process also helps the student to understand the subject in his/her own way.

== '''Strategy 6: Redesigning  assignments in a student’s beneficiary way''' ==

Since every subject final exam allocates few marks to students for the assignments that they submit, we want to redesign the assignment pattern in a more productive way.

As of now, same assignment is being given to all the students of the section. This system has few flaws since it gives a chance to students to copy it from others’ and the difficulty/practical implementation of an assignment is 2 on a scale of 10. This ultimately contradicts the whole idea behind giving an assignment.

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What are the obvious flaws because of this?

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== '''Strategy 7: Industrial awareness through alumni interactions''' ==

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It is not possible to have industrial tours for all students and also students will not have a clear idea of the industrial environment/opportunity through just 1 or 2 tours. For a student to have a keen idea on what to learn during their UG so that they don’t feel pressurized with problems after they join their workplace and also to have an idea on what skills they need to work on to join their field of intrest, we decided to have more interactive sessions with alumni who are working. They can either be web sessions or we can have them come down to our college if they are free to give seminars that eliminates students’ doubts and confusion regarding their career

== '''Strategy 8: Design Thinking Work Shops''' ==

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The workshop inculcates the way an individual thinks about a problem. It has 5 stages like Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype and Test. In each stage the participants will go through different thinking patterns like digging deeper, analyzing, brainstorming, designing and prototyping etc. Students will be benefited a lot by this. We are planning to conduct the workshop once in every week for our college students. So, students will be having a vision of how to think and what to do regarding a problem.

== Strategy 9: Clubs/Activities/Sessions focusing on Communication skills ==

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This can be achieved by conducting different fun activities related to improving the skills named above and many more.

== Related Links ==

'''Spring 2017:'''

[[Venkata Sasank Pamulapati|Venkata Sasank Pamulapati]]

'''Fall 2017:'''

[[Venkata Sai Charan Sattu|Venkata Sai Charan Sattu ]]

[[SM Raiyyan|Shaik Mohammed Raiyyan]]

'''Spring 2018:'''

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