The Orientation Program for the year 2012 begun with an inaugural function at 11.00 a.m.hosted by Ms. Himadri Patel - Asst.Prof.BVPIMCT, Ms. Bhumika Patel-Asst.Prof. SRIMCA. The students of BCA 5th Semester beautifully recited the prayer 'Bahu Pujya Kera Pujthi'.
The Lamp Lighting ceremony was being graced by Dr. Bankim Patel, Director SRIMCA.Mr Jitendra Nasriwala Associate Prof. SRIMCA, Ms Jaishree Tailor & Ms. Jikitsha Sheth Asst.Prof SRIMCA, Ms Nehal Adhvaryu.
Ms Jaishree Tailor Asst. Prof of SRIMCA extended a warm welcome to the new batch, as well as to the faculty and staff with a thriving welcome speech.
Dr. Bankim Patel expressed the building blocks of institute and its academic policy. He emphasized on discipline and punctuality and its role in academic, personal and professional life. He clearly revealed that the institute's basic intention is to up-lift the students and motivate them. He ended his speech by blessing the students and wishing them a good-healthy time at campus.
After the inaugural function the next session comprised of Presentation with an idea to give the student a summary about the Trust, Affiliated Institutes, Best Practices, Infrastructure facilities, Education Enrichment Initiatives, Achievements, Faculty Profile, and Placement. The presentation was initiated by Ms. Himadri Patel -Asst.Prof.BVPIMCT, Ms. Bhumika Patel-Asst.Prof. SRIMCA
Vote of thanks was delivered by Ms. Jitendra Nasriwala Assistant Professor-SRIMCA,
The presentation was followed by Lunch
The post lunch session of the Orientation Program 2012 was enriched with Laughter Yoga. Mr. Nilesh Masalawala - Trainer, Advantage Hospital, Surat, delivered a very interesting session on "Laughter Yoga". The session was very helpful to solve our real life problems like headache, cold, mantel stress etc by laughter therapy. He also provides other many laughter therapies, which will helpful to come out from major dieses without any allopathic treatment. Faculties Ms. Yagni Desai, Ms. Priti Bhatt, Ms. Sneha Mandavia, Ms. Ruchi Naik, Ms. Khushbu J. Das took care for the smooth functioning of the session.
The Day 1 of the orientation program ended with the Campus Visit of the students intending to make them aware about the physical location of infrastructure facilities. Mr Sandip Delwadkar,Mr Dhirendra Tandel, Mr Sandip Patel, Mr Krishnamurthi Rudra, Ms Hetvi, Mr Puja Sharma, Mr Khusbhu efficiently managed and co-ordinated the session with the students of TYBCA.
Mr Vikas Patel co-ordinated to pay heritage to the nation by singing of National Anthem. All the students gathered in the lobby and sung the national anthem in well discipline.
The first hour of the Day 2 of the Orientation Program commenced with Expert talk on "Grooming & Etiquettes" by Miss Rozy Patel, An interactive session was delivered by Miss Rozy Patel at the Shrimad Hall for understanding and developing the concept of Personality and positive attitude towards life as if they were going to start their professional career.
She began the session by asking the students that what according to them personality was. She then made the students understand that personality as a whole cannot be defined without the positive attitude.
She also made them understand what confidence actually means and how to react or respond to the real life situations which we people face in our day-to-day life. She also made them understand that the positive attitude is one of the key which helps us to make decisions and helps us to face the challenges and the responsibilities in work and life.
Towards the end of session, the students and faculty members offered a vote of thanks. Mr. Ketan Naik, Mr Pinkesh Patel, Mr Sapan Naik, Ms Pooja Kadam, Ms Khusbu Das and Mr Manish Vala co-ordinated to make the session successful
Two parallel sessions comprised of: Faculty-Parents Meet at 11.00 a.m.
It was solely dedicated to the Parents of the new batch. Dr. Bankim Patel, Director SRIMCA made the parents aware by disclosing the facts and realities of the field of Computer Science and Technology and the cut-throat competition of the business world. He also highlighted the best practices of the institutes like discipline, punctuality, continuous evaluation system, attendance, mentoring-counseling etc. He stressed upon the fact that apart from the institutes, facilities and faculties, parents and their support also play an important role in building the academic career of a student. He further talked about the infrastructure facilities that are made available for the quality education at the department. He also put forth his views regarding the necessity of a Laptop for pursuing smooth learning process in the field of computer science and information technology. He ended his speech by assuring parents a healthy academic, spiritual environment with full of support to the students from every member of the department.
Ms Jaishree Tailor and Ms Jikitsha Sheth introduce the parents with the institute and its best practices with the help of a presentation. The same was followed by counselor meeting. Good number of parents turned up for the meeting.
The 2nd parallel session was Talk on Health and Nutrition by Dr.Milind Parekh,in the activity room. He started the session with the explanation of 'Food and its nature'. He asked students to write their favorite food and the reason why that food is favorite. He said that there is physical, religious and social nature of food. He delivered importance of balanced diet and its impact on health. Ms. Himadri Patel, Ms. Yagni Desai, Mr. Sandip Patel were the faculty members who well co-ordinated the session.
The post lunch session of the 2nd day of the Orientation Program 2012 was enlightened by Mr. Pinkesh Patel by a CD show on Wonders of IT. He made the session very interactive and students found it very resourceful. Ms Bhumika Patel, Ms Hiral Prajapati, Ms Alpesh Patel, Aniket Prajapati, Mr Pratik and Ms Amisha Patel contributed to the success of this session by gathering wonderful videos to thrill the students.
The 2nd day of the orientation ended with campus visit part 2 where students visit the engineering campus, hostel , mess and BVPIMCT etc. Mr Ketan Naik,Mr Dhirendra Tandel, Mr Aniket Prajapati,Mr Pratik Patel and Mr Alpesh Patel well co-ordinated to make the visit smooth and enjoyable for the students.
On the 3rd Day students of BCA were given Badges with a Tag ID to smoothly conduct the exciting games and fun.
A Snake show was organized on the 3rd day of orientation program (i.e. on 4/7/12) at early morning 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. in the Activity Room. During this activity, interesting and surprising information's about different species of snakes were provided by the members of Nature club to newly admitted I.T. buddies of FYBCA and Five years integrated FYM.Sc. (I.T.) students as well as to the show handling Computer Science faculty members involving,Mr. Ketan Naik, Mr. Dhirendra Tandel, Ms. Bhumika Desai, Ms. Bhumika Patel.
Students with a great enthusiasm enjoyed the show, by viewing the various species of poisonous and nonpoisonous snakes alive as well as on power point presentations. Many confusions or misconceptions of student about snakes were cleared during this session. Some of the female students were panic, when the show was started by viewing the snakes, but after a bit of time, they were fearless and some of them dared to handle live snakes, in their hands. At the end of the show there was a questioning session. Students gained abundant of interesting knowledge about snakes, by asking the questions with the nature club members, with a full of zeal.
Therefore, in winding up, this session was a great, successful, and full of enthusiasm and imparted the unexposed knowledge of snakes to student, which is one of the living species on earth. So, from this show, students came to know that instead of showing cruelty towards snake, they should be treated with love and harmony. After this session, definitely students boosted up their confidence to handle any fearful situations at any moment of their life.
With the objective of environmental awareness and to play adventure sports the Team of sarthana nature club, Surat was invited to the institute. It is an NGO working with the mission to save the environment and to create awareness among the local people. New comers enjoyed flying fox. Flying Fox one of the famous adventure sport in which with the help of a rope, students slided down in the air from top end to bottom end. This is so difficult but students had an awesome experience. Mr.ketan Naik, Ms. Bhumika Desai, Mr. Dhirendra Tandel, Mr. Manish Vala, Ms. Bhoomika Patel, Ms. Hetvi Thakor.
Quiz competition was held with a parallel track of Treasure Hunt. There were total 3 rounds, the 1st round was based on General Knowledge. 2nd round was based on Reasoning and the 3rd round was based on Logo Identification. Overall the quiz was so interesting all the student has participated actively and they had enjoyed . Ms. Jikitsha Sheth,Mr. Amish Patel,Ms. Anuja Vaidya,Mr. Priyank Goel,Ms. Sneha Mandavia,Ms. Puja Sharma worked hard to organize the quiz in a professional manner.3 students of BCA were winners in the pre-lunch quiz competition whereas 5 student in the post lunch quiz.
Treasure hunt was organized under the guidance of Mr Dharmendra Bhatti. The team members Ms Bhumika Patel, Ms Chetna Tailor, Ms Preeti Bhatt, Ms Ruchi Naik and Ms Puja Kadam carefully designed questions to make the students stand on their toes to get aware of their institute. Teams had tie but were ranked on the basis of time.
Balloon Joy was overall a thriller. Students enjoyed the blowing, tying the balloon and then bursting the same with a lesson to make them understand the competition, group dynamics etc. Ms Nehal Adhvaryu, Mr Sandeep Patel, Ms Yagni Desai, Mr Sapan Naik and Mr Priyank Goel well managed the game.
Finally prize distribution was organized and winners of all the games were gifted with a Dairy Milk chocolate to each member of the winning team.
The 4th day of the orientation program was empowered with Yoga and Meditation by Mr. Haresh Tandel. Ms Bhumika Desai, Ms Ruchi Naik, Mr Krishnamurthy Rudra, Mr Sandip Patel took care for the smooth running of the session.
Students were then engaged in the book bank and library procedure by Mr Amish Patel.
The decoration committee which comprised of Ms. Bhumika Desai,Ms Nehal Adhvaryu, Ms Chetana Tailor & Ms Krutika Naik, took care of decorating the Shrimad Hall, Entrance and Rangoli. While the committee handling lunch comprising of Mr Jitendra Upadhyay, Mr Hardik Vyas, Mr. Amish Patel made availed with delicious food and snacks all four days.
Director Dr. Bankim Patel, Dr Kalpesh Lad, Mr. Jitendra Nasriwala took overall care in facilitating all the faculty members to make the orientation program a memorable success.
