APOGEE 2008 - Inside

A few names which come to my mind when I think of APOGEE 2008: (in psuedo-random order)
Gautam, Jyoti, Sumanth, Reeshav, Dhiraj, Ravindra, Divya, Vinay Soni, Pradeep, Ritesh, Raja, Sagnik, Ali, Rajat, Jeffery, Mohit, Gurukaran, Puri, Ankit Mittal, Shubham, Tarun.
Favourite moment: 11th March 2008 1400 hrs:
Lunch at Sky. Thinking about inaug... almost all the projects were working :). In all it should be 20+.
Scariest moment: 11th March 2008 0600 hrs:
I woke up. F*ck! Oh I am in chota wala lab (2138). Oh fish! Why was I sleeping.. Oh fish! what's the time? Oh fish! just 6 hours left for assoc room inaugration. Oh fish! We need to move all the stuff to the assoc rooms. Oh fish! Where are all the people? Gautam... uth saale... kuch kar... just 6 hours... kya kare.. oh fish! Tu kuch kar yaha... main hostel jaake logo ko utha ke lata hun. (Dub: Gautam... wake up... do something.. just 6 hours.. what to do..oh fish!... You do something here.. I'll go to hostel and get people from there.) Ring Ring... Hello Jyoti!.. tu kaha hai.. MB...abhi tak so rahi hai.. just 6 hours left. Jaldi aa... main hostel jaake logo ko utha ke lata hun (Dub: Ring Ring... Hello Jyoti!.. where are you.. Meera Bhawan...sleeping till now.. just 6 hours left. Come soon..I'll go to hostel and get people from there. )
Funniest moment: 13th March 2008 0930 hrs:
Explaining the projcet to the judge; and I was wearing cargo ( it should be called pyjama actually) and T-shirt which read "I am Kind of a Big Deal" :D. Actually I was supposed to change before the judging seesion, was on the way to hostel to do the same at around 0845 hrs. But then got to know that judges have already arrived, so aborted the plan and went back. (I am not too sure of the date for this one :D)
Five things which make me happy as Co-ord, Instrumentation Forum, APOGEE 2008:
- Assocs collaborated to conduct events
- Over two-thirds of the projects on the display in our assoc were working. ( Generally percentage is pretty low)
- Good participation from all three batches in our assoc (don't expect anything from psenti-semites)
- Our assoc had two rooms full of projects and workshops
- Our Group leader called me after Val-D to congratulate us
Five things which don't make me happy as Co-ord, Instrumentation Forum, APOGEE 2008:
- The events were not handled so well by Instru assoc.
- Wireless Quest (new event, required particiapants to design radio receiver) failed even after the (not-so :P) hard work
- Abstract submission was vague. Only projects which were being done seriously should had been submitted. Inspite of my efforts to do so, finally it dint happen properly.
- Guest lectures were not given due attention
- Publicity was not so effective.