Event @ BitWise - Showcasing Impact

The Google Students Club, IIT Kharagpur collaborated with the Computer Science Engineering Department, IIT Kharagpur to present an event at BitWise, the CSE Department Fest on 7th - 9th March. It was a 2 day event aimed at promoting the use of Google products and popularization of Google ideas within the campus and we're proud to announce it was a success. Here's a short synopsis of what transpired!

Over the 2 day event, we held several fun events like Doodle Quiz, Doodle Designing, Trivia, Rubik's Cube and Sudoku Solving. All of these events were held in parallel and the Club bore witness to over a hundred enthusiastic participants who took part in these events. The winners in the respective events were honored by being presented with several Google goodies and prizes.The main objectives of these events were:-

• To popularize the products of Google amongst the intelligentsia.
• To organize and attract the tech-oriented students in the campus.

A few glimpses of the event are below!

Event in Progress

Busy with Sudokus !

  

 

The team.

 

Google Apps Supporting Programs (GASP)

Apart from the consumer use of Google Apps, Google also provides services for education and support programs. Google proposes to provide a platform for universities to come online. The need of the hour is to provide exposure and access of useful and engaging Google Apps to the education sector, which will be able to harvest the maximum benefit of the services and applications.

The main motives of this program are:

• To get connected
• To get free Google Apps Deployment support
• To get free technical consulting and training
• Assistance with integration of Google Apps into core processes

Thus, it is imperative to build up a GASP interface between the students, Institute and Google for efficient dissemination of information and technical knowledge in today's fast paced world.

Online Safety and Security

One of the most common things we tread in our day to day life is the internet. We use it almost universally for a variety of applications. Not undermining the usefulness of the Internet, it is wrong to undermine the power which few people also misuse to their advantage. In this article, we will help you by explaining how to stay safe from such mishaps.

Most commonly, problems occur if you work on shared devices with friends, or log onto public computers with personal credentials. 

• The key thing to remember is to have a strong password, and solid backup options with the 2-step verification. This is a must especially if you have access to Internet/Mail through multiple sources.
• Set your recovery options, in the 'Security' tab in your Mail service. This will help you monitor and filter the browsers, places, etc.
• Take control of settings, via www.google.com/dashboard.
• A more comprehensive and detailed description is provided @ www.google.com/goodtoknow

Be secure and careful. Remember to log out of your accounts on public workplaces !

Google Cloud Developer Challenge 2013

It is time to roll out appreciation for the deserving. It is proud to name people who win laurels for the institute. As part of the Google Cloud Developer Challenge in 2013, a team from IIT Kharagpur reached the finals, based on the conceptualization of an App named janDarbaar. Hearty Congratulations to the team members, namely Mr. Arpit Tarang, Mr. Nadeem Shaik and Mr. Soumyadeep Mukherjee.


The App can be reached here at this link. It is conceptually based on the fact of 'change' and the properties of transformation that can revolutionize the world. As part of this, the team members won a Google Nexus 2nd Generation each and $1000 team prize money. It is of utmost pride and honor, thereby adding to the quality of the work expected, services delivered and changes that we as a Google Students Club want to see. Looking forward for more !

Events conducted on Campus - CodeNites

Having talked about what our on prime jobs and prerogatives are, we are proud to announce our work on campus @ IIT Kharagpur. In association with Code Club, IIT Kharagpur, GSC IIT Kharagpur conducted two online coding events namely CodeNites 1.0 and 2.0. It was majorly conducted to nurture true competitive programming talent on campus.

CodeNite 1.0 was held on 8th of Septeber, 2013, whereas CodeNite 2.0 was held on 9th of November, 2013. Our programming partner was Codechef, and we also had a prize distribution of Google Goodies to the top few of the CodeNite winners !

The Google Global Impact Award

Four organisations, including the fan favourite, received a Rs 3 crore Global Impact Award and support from Google to help make their vision a reality.

The four winning projects are using technology to tackle the world's toughest problems. Thousands of non-profits entered the Google Impact Challenge, and the awardees were chosen by our panel of judges and a public vote. Inspired by the passion and the projects of each of the finalists, Google decided to award each additional non-profit in the top ten with Rs 1.5 crore in seed funding. 

In accordance with this, GSC @ IIT Kharagpur was one out of two GSCs in India to win the Google Impact Challenge - Get Out the Vote Challenge, mainly due to the experience of our GSA Ms. Samidha Paroha. The projects involved as final awardees were:

• To provide an integrated water and sanitation system to support health villages.
• To improve the network of motorbike science labs to educate rural kids.
• To formulate a video hub to scale agricultural training.
• To design apps to connect citizens with the government.