2-Days Annual Tech Fest DRONATHON'24
5th - 6th April 2024
Dronacharya College of Engineering, Gurugram organized Technical Annual Fest DRONATHON’24 from 5th April - 6th April, 2024. The fest had a total of 14 events, out of which 6 were major events and 8 were minor. The event was coordinated by Prof. Neha Chauhan and Dr. Shipra Kataria. One most known community - GDSC had also conducted grand hackathons along with other events. There were 15 dignitaries and one Chief Guest for the DRONATHON’24 event. Details for the same are mentioned below:
- RISHABH KADYAN (Chief Guest, Manager, Cyber & IT Risk at Grant Thronton Bharat) and also a proud alumni of Dronacharya College of Engineering, 2013 Batch.
- GAURAV KUMAR (Associate Software Engineer and frontend developer at Unthinkable Solutions.)
- DIVYA SHARMA (Technical Staff at ADOBE.)
- ANJALI PACHAURI (Software Tester at Samsung R & D Institute Delhi.)
- SALONI ARORA (Software Quality Analyst at Samsung India.)
- TANIA CHANANA (Engineer at American Express.)
- PRERNA GUPTA (Engineer at American Express.)
- AKSHAY KUMAR (Project lead of application development team at Accenture.)
- VIJAY ARORA (Audit analytics manager at American Express.)
- JAGJEET GANDHI (SDE –II at Expedia group.)
- GAURAV MATTAS (Assistant Manager – Marketing at Scholastic.)
- GAURAV ARORA (Senior Software Quality Analyst at Kelton Tech.)
- DEEPALI DADHICH (Associate Consultant (HR) at Capgemini.)
- SACHIN SHARMA (Engineer, Project management at Samsung.)
- SAGAR DUBEY (Cloud develop Engineer at Samsung.)
- ANIRUDH MAKKAR (Senior Security Engineer at ZS Associates.)
- SAKET KUMAR (Engineer II- Software Design at Microchip Technology.)
Four society chapters had organized major and minor events as follow:
ACM SOCIETY CHAPTER
- Hack-IT-Thrice: AI Innovation Hackathon (6thApril) – MAJOR EVENT
Participants had to unleash their intelligence and creativity with mentorship to solve real-world problems by developing cutting-edge AI applications.
- Code Veda (5thApril) – MINOR EVENT
Participation in Code Veda opened up opportunities for internships, freelance work, or full-time employment in tech companies, start-ups, or even launching their own ventures.
- Web Brilliance: Crafting Digital Literacy (6th April) – MINOR EVENT
The event gave an opportunity to showcase digital literacy skills in Web page development. Learning webpage design equipped students with essential digital literacy skills, including understanding HTML, CSS, and potentially JavaScript, PHP etc. The event encouraged students to express their creativity through layout, colour schemes, typography, and graphics.
CSI SOCIETY CHAPTER
- HACK-O-RELAY 3.0 (4thApril – 6th April) – MAJOR EVENT
It was a 3-day long hackathon for the students in which they expressed their talent & skills and won exciting prizes.
- DEBUG DECRYPT (5th – 6th April) – MAJOR EVENT
Logic development and debugging skills are very important in the realm of computer science and engineering.
- House LA nester -BGMI Game tournament (5th – 6th April) – MINOR EVENT
A battleground where college students clashed in the digital arena of BGMI. Exclusively for esteemed college students, the championship was a testament to skill and camaraderie.
- Technodium - A Technical Extempore (5th – 6th April) – MINOR EVENT
The event was all about to analyse the topic, identify the issues addressed, generate idea and present in front of the esteemed panel of judges.
ISTE CHAPTER
- Tech Tonic: Project Competition (5th – 6th April) – MAJOR EVENT
The event served as both a platform and an opportunity to exhibit the fruits of labor and showcase exceptional talent through the projects crafted. Teams engaged in friendly competition, vying for the prestigious Best Project Award.
- Dron Vision: Poster Making Competition (5th April) – MINOR EVENT
The event was to showcase artistic skills to present the ideas of mind and illustrate creativity in form of posters.
- Pirates Bounty: Treasure Hunt (5th April) – MINOR EVENT
The event was about playing the version of a super exhilarating journey to decode fascinating puzzles. Putting your mind through the gripping event of mysticism and magic!
IEEE SOCIETY CHAPTER
- FIRA: ROBOT SHOW (5th – 6th April) – MAJOR EVENT
The event witnessed thrilling action as the robots navigate the f.ield, score goals, and outmanoeuvre their opponents with precision. The event was a showcase of creativity, innovation, and engineering finesse like never before!
- CASTODIA (5th – 6th April) – MAJOR EVENT
The event was about to showcase projects fuelled with dedication, research, and a shared commitment towards positive change solution presented in PPTs.
- Cam Flicker: Movie Competition (5th April) – MINOR EVENT
The event was about to showcase acting skills to present the ideas and illustrate creativity in form of Documentary Movie.
- Tech Rangoli: Rangoli Competition (5th April) – MINOR EVENT
The event showcased artistic skills to present the ideas and illustrate creativity in form of Rangoli.
There were 3 grand events with prize pool of worth 30,000. For 1st – 15,000, 2nd – 10,000 and 3rd – 5,000.
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Event name
Hack – o - Relay
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Team name
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Team members names
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Amount of Cheque
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1st winner
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The Akatsuki – Aravali College of Engineering and Management
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Rishika Mishra
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15,000
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2nd winner
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IRUS – KIET, Ghaziabad
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Ashutosh Kumar
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10,000
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Urvashi Kushwaha
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Aman Raj
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Anisha Srivastava
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3rd Winner
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Byte Tribe
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Roshan Singh
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5,000
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Ronak Dhanda
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3rd Winner
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Edarmour
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Aditya Punia
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5,000
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Pravneet Singh
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Sejal Talwar
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Moksh
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Special mention from GDSC
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KrakenKoders – Aravali College of Engineering and Management
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Yashswai Mohan
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Anshu
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Rishika
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Mohit Sharma
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Event name
Hack – IT - Thrice
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Team name
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Amount of Cheque
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1st winner
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Swasth Lekha S34M - DCE
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Deepak Yadav
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15,000
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Sudhir
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Rahul Rai
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2nd winner
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Martin Maverick – Greater Noida Institute of Technology
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Priyesh Pandey
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10,000
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Sahil Chaubey
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Ankit Gupta
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Abhishek Kumar
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3rd Winner
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Techie Dominator
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Om Sharma
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5,000
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Event name
Tech Tonic
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Team name
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1st winner
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AgroSahayak
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Chandni Kumar
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15,000
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Rishita Singh
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Kamal saini
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2nd winner
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EDARMA
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Sejal Talwar
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10,000
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Moksh Siddhant Mishra
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Aditya Punia
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3rd Winner
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Know Your Code
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Abhishek Kumar
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5,000
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Arsh Kumar
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Shivam Kumar
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There were 2 grand events with prize pool of worth 8,000. For 1st – 5,000 and 2nd – 3,000
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Event name
Debug Decrypt
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Team name
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Amount of Cheque
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1st winner
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Mukul Dahiya AIML 6th Sem
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5,000
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Pooja Bansal AIML 6th sem
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2nd winner
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Harshak Saini CSE 6th Sem
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3,000
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Event name
FIRA – Robot Race
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1st winner
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Greatmates
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Nikhil Malik
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5,000
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Inderpreet Singh
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Ria Yadav
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2nd winner
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Robolox
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Aman Chawla
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3,000
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Nikhil Soni
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Yash Soni
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Details of winning teams in remaining major and minor events is mentioned below:
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Event name
Castodia (Major)
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Team name
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Team members names
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1st winner
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Dreamer
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Yash Sandip Mahajan
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2nd winner
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Frog
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Vikas Kumar
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Saumya Rawat
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Yogesh
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Deepak
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3rd Winner
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Bhramastra
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Kunal Prajapati
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Meenakshi Prajapati
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Event name
Technodium (Minor)
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Team name
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1st winner (One member)
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Divyam Mishra (AIML – I ) 2nd Year
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Event name
Dron Vision (Minor)
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Team name
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1st winner (Two members)
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Poster Title: Bridging Silence with sound waves
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Gayatri Swain VI Sem CSIT
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Kabir Chauhan VI Sem CSIT
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Event name
Pirates Bounty (Minor)
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1st winner (Two members)
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Sherlock Homies
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Vandita IV Sem CSE
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Satvik Jayaval IV Sem CSE
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Event name
House Lannister (Minor)
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Team name
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1st winner (Four Members)
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Team Legend
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Sachin Rustagi
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Utkarsh Raj
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Kundan
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Harsh Dahiya
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Event name
TechRoli (Minor)
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Team name
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1st winner (Two Members)
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Diwali Maidens
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Vandita
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Shruti
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Event name
Code Veda (Minor)
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Team name
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1st winner (One member)
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CoderZ
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Ankit Pal
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Event name
CamFlicker (Minor)
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1st winner (Two Members)
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Apex Aces 2.0
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Sachin Kumar CSIT, 3rd Year
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Arun Shakya CSIT, 3rd Year
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Event name
Web Brilliance (Minor)
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1st winner (Two Members)
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Brahmastra
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Meenakshi Panchal
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Kunal Prajapati
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