The Department of Computer Science organized BITBUZZ 2.0 on March 26, 2021 from 9 am to 2 pm on the Google Meet platform. BITBUZZ 2.0 offered higher secondary school students an opportunity to showcase their talents in the field of their interest by participating in various events. Mrs. Sweta P. Shet Verenkar, Asst. Prof. Computer Science was the Faculty Event Coordinator and the Student Coordinator was Mr. Yagnesh Redkar, student of TYBCA.
Mr. Stoline Fernandes, student of SY B.Voc. designed the poster and brochure of BITBUZZ 2.0 and Mr. Ayush Kale, student of FYBCA designed the College video for display during the Inaugural.
The inaugural of BITBUZZ 2.0 began with a welcome address by Principal Prof. Prita D. Mallya – she mentioned that through such interactions, students from Higher Secondary schools get to explore careers in the exponentially growing field of computer science and IT. A digital lamp lighting was displayed to mark the beginning of BITBUZZ 2.0.
The event coordinator Ms Sweta P. Shet Verenkar gave an overview of the aim behind organizing BITBUZZ. She revived the memories of BITBUZZ 1.0 which was a grand success as a result of the participation and Teamwork. She mentioned that Shree Damodar College always aims to provide opportunities to students and BITBUZZ is an attempt to bring the higher secondary students closer to the college campus and to explore career paths in the field of computer science.
The Head, Department of Computer Science Mr. Sumit Kumar, highlighted the key points of the programmes offered by the department, viz, BCA and B.Voc.(ST).
Vice-Principal Dr. Rodney D’Silva encouraged participants to do their best and enjoy the event. The compere for the inaugural function was Ms. Nashita Da Silva, student of TYBCA.
There were 10 competitions namely Mind Space, Picturesque, Web Wonders, Get Grooving, Marketing Ooze, Just for Grins, Gamewiz, Art with Brush, WordPlay and Essaywind.
Each Higher Secondary was identified by a Team name throughout the Event.
- Team Shining Spiders – Mount Mary’s Higher Secondary School, Chinchinim
- Team Tech Geeks – Vidya Vikas Academy, Margao
- Team Rocking Superstars – RMS Higher Secondary school, Margao
- Team Domain Masters – Purushottam Walawalkar Higher Secondary School, Mapusa
The Winners of individual events were as follows:
Team Shining Spiders, Team Rocking Superstars and Team Tech Geeks won an additional 50 points for early registration.
All the teams performed excellently. TEAM ROCKING SUPERSTARS (RMS Higher Secondary School, Margao) won the event, and the Runners Up team was TEAM TECH GEEKS (Vidya Vikas Academy, Margao).
BITBUZZ 2.0 was planned and executed in a paperless manner, with all communication through Email/Whatsapp/Social Media and Scoring and Judging through sharing of Google Drive Excel Sheets for individual scoring entries by each Event Head.
