A LANCER coming to receive you at the station, you are put up in a first class guest house with a top quality lunch served to you, official meetings with the topmost authorities of the institution, asking you to light the ceremonial lamp to start the event and getting a decent memento to end the show.What else do you require to be treated as VIPs. Yes this was the treatment our ROBOTIX team received when we landed in Bhubaneshwar for conducting a workshop(w/s) on Robotics in KIIT. To tell you frankly, I was anticipating this kinda hospitality when one of my fellow heads Sabya told me about the nature of conversation he was having with one of the organizing team members there at KIIT.
The day was really great for us specially when our dear "GOLU" agreed to accompany us for the w/s. Sumandeep Banerjee aka Golu is literally STUD(in our lingo) in the field of mobile robotics.
He has enormous funda in this field and when he was there with us we knew that we didn't require to bother about the w/s any more.
Our journey began at 4 in the morning when we reached the railway station. Our group comprised of 6 members, 5 from our ROBOTIX team and one from the Kshitij team.As almost all of us had a "night-out" so everyone opted for a nap after boarding the train.After a comfortable journey we reached Bbsr at 11.20 am. A guy from KIIT had come to receive us on the station.Then was the time to confront with the first surprise of the day. A Lancer car was waiting to pick us up to our destination.A little while later we all were in the KIIT guest house which ,I must admit, provided us with a decent accommodation. After having a conversation with the organizing team of the KIIT (all 3rd years comp sc students) we got ourselves ready for the lunch.
Our next move was to go to the college campus were we were supposed to conduct the w/s.On our way to the venue we were informed that the Registrar of KIIT wanted to meet us. This was again unexpected to us as we were not on any official visit from our institute. After having a walk around the college campus we were in the registrar's office. We had a discussion on the various activities our team does to promote robotics in and out of Kgp campus. We also met with the assistant registrar and the HOD of Comp Sc dept. who wanted us to help the KIIT guys in establishing a Robotics society of their own.This was not all we had to meet the DEAN of undergraduate studies as well who appreciated our endeavor to promote robotics in India.After all these meetings and discussions it was the time to move to the venue of the w/s. We reached the place on time and to add to our surprise we were being expected by a crowd of around 600 students. This was really a great thing for us but was adding to our nervousness at the same time. We dint have any idea that we would be getting that kind of response at Bbsr.
The day was really great for us specially when our dear "GOLU" agreed to accompany us for the w/s. Sumandeep Banerjee aka Golu is literally STUD(in our lingo) in the field of mobile robotics.
He has enormous funda in this field and when he was there with us we knew that we didn't require to bother about the w/s any more.
Our journey began at 4 in the morning when we reached the railway station. Our group comprised of 6 members, 5 from our ROBOTIX team and one from the Kshitij team.As almost all of us had a "night-out" so everyone opted for a nap after boarding the train.After a comfortable journey we reached Bbsr at 11.20 am. A guy from KIIT had come to receive us on the station.Then was the time to confront with the first surprise of the day. A Lancer car was waiting to pick us up to our destination.A little while later we all were in the KIIT guest house which ,I must admit, provided us with a decent accommodation. After having a conversation with the organizing team of the KIIT (all 3rd years comp sc students) we got ourselves ready for the lunch.
Our next move was to go to the college campus were we were supposed to conduct the w/s.On our way to the venue we were informed that the Registrar of KIIT wanted to meet us. This was again unexpected to us as we were not on any official visit from our institute. After having a walk around the college campus we were in the registrar's office. We had a discussion on the various activities our team does to promote robotics in and out of Kgp campus. We also met with the assistant registrar and the HOD of Comp Sc dept. who wanted us to help the KIIT guys in establishing a Robotics society of their own.This was not all we had to meet the DEAN of undergraduate studies as well who appreciated our endeavor to promote robotics in India.After all these meetings and discussions it was the time to move to the venue of the w/s. We reached the place on time and to add to our surprise we were being expected by a crowd of around 600 students. This was really a great thing for us but was adding to our nervousness at the same time. We dint have any idea that we would be getting that kind of response at Bbsr.
We took some 15-20 minutes to get ourselves ready for the presentations but before we could start the girl from KIIT who was to introduce us to the audience asked us to light the lamp kept on the stage. We were totally astonished to find ourselves in that situation. At that awkward situation the best we could do was to invite the HOD sitting there to do the ceremonial lamp lighting thing for us and actually we did the same.
So this was how the w/s started.I was the first speaker and to my surprise I spoke quite well on the dais. These workshops have proved a very good platform for me to develop my public speaking skills.At the beginning I must not hide that I was nervous but with the rolling of the slides of the ppt prepared by me I gained confidence and delivered perfectly. After me Golu took the charge and as always left the audience spell bound.Golu handed over the mic to Suma(the kshitij core team member) for her presentation.At last Sabya concluded the session with a vote of thanks.But again this was not all there was something else waiting for us. The girl who introduced us called upon the HOD to present a memento to us. Accustomed by surprises by then ,Golu received the same on our behalf.
We then had a interaction session with KIIT people for an hour after which we moved to Sabya's house.From there we moved to CCD for a hang-out and took our dinner at Pizza hut. It was already 10 pm by then and it was time to say adios to Bbsr. So we moved to the station.The train was an hour late so I utilized the time interacting with Suma , the experience with whom deserves another post. We reached Kgp next morning at 4.
So this was how all six of us spent the day full of surprises. I hope we get similar kinda chance in future also.
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