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CLUB ACTIVITIES
Deepika Maakan (MBA- IB,)&Anuranan K.
Kazi (BA-PB)
Corporado 2015, a unique
corporate quiz was organized by
the Quizzard club of UPES, CoMES
on 15th of October, 2015 at the
college premises. The Quiz began
with the conduction of the
preliminary round with large
number of participants from
COMES, kandoli campus.
A total of four teams was selected
after critical evaluation of the
preliminary round and the final
round went on. The Quiz was a
tensed one with back and forth
between the teams. Each of the
four teams had to answer the
questions that were quizzed and
after six rounds of intense
quizzing, quizzard got its winners
and the runner's up from
quiz.The.corporado was a
hugesuccesswithSuprotim De and
Shahbaz Khan of MBA OG 2nd year
as the winners andAnshul Mittal
and Dhivya Bharathi of MBA OG 1st
year as the 1st Runner's up .The
quiz was conducted to test the
corporate knowledge of the
students and to prepare the
students for further international
corporate quizzes.
The participants were awarded
with chocolates and certificates and
also the audience was gifted with
chocolates to attract them for more
participation in quizzes.The Quiz
wouldn’t have been a success with
the active participation of the
members of the Quizzard club.
They actively conducted the
prelims and the finals with proper
class orientation and promotion.
Inside stories
CLUB ACTIVITIES
1.Corporado- Quizzard Club
2.IPL Bidding-PR Club
3.Basketball Tournament- Sports Club
4.Digital Dancing- GEMS
5.Selfie Mudra- HR Club
6.Abhinay- Sanskriti
DEPARTMENTAL &DOMAIN
CLUBACTIVITIES,GUEST LECTURES
1. Department of Power &
Infrastructure : Public Private
Participation
2. Department of Energy Economics :
Artificial Neural network
CORPORADO BY QUIZZARD

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Quizzard promised to conduct
more of quizzes to enhance the
quizzing skill of the students of
UPES and bring best quizzers to the
world platform.
Harshika Maakan (MA Energy Economics)
We know that the Indian Premier
League (IPL) is a professional
Twenty20 cricket league in India
contested annually by franchise
teams representing Indian cities,
but PR & Event Management club
has made it possible to create an
IPL notable environment with their
event IPL BIDDING in Uurja 2015 at
Bidholi campus.
The game started with playing
eight numbers of videos for the 31
teams playing solo or with peers
where each team had to bid a
certain amount of money on the
each upcoming ball of the series
being played on the screen.
Eight teams were selected for the
virtual IPL bidding after a
thoroughgoing scrutiny over the
scores of all the team members.
The eight selected teams then
moved on to the second round
where each team bid for the
franchise name as well as for their
choice of members. Twists and
turns like purchasing of the coach,
rumors list and cutting back the
scores, etc. kept the game
interesting as well as the
participant attentive through out
the event.
After analyzing the virtual amount
left with the teams and the based
on the figures of their game points,
two teams were deemed the
ultimate winners of IPL Bidding
2015. With team owning the
franchise of Sunrisers Hyderabad
and having the team members
Prajwal Srivastava, Shivam Gupta,
Brahmjeet Tanwar, and Shivam
Singhal won the cash prize of worth
Rs. 6000 were the winners, while
the team owning the franchise of
Chennai SuperKings and including
the team members Akash Devraj,
KK Pandey, Vipin and Anish were
the runners up earning the cash
prize of Rs. 3000.
Deepika Maakan (MBA- IB,)
In last week Basketball
Tournament was conducted by
Sports cell and it is going on.
Six teams from different houses
(White, Blue, Red, Black, Yellow,
Green) participating in the
tournament. Semifinal and final
matches of tournament will be
held on Wednesday and Friday.
Shobhit Wadhwa (MBA- IB,)&Anuranan K.
Kazi (BA -PB)
Of the many dance events
organized in Uurja 2015, digital
dance was one of a kind. GEMS
club, belonging to COMES, Kandoli
Campus, UPES initiated this event
of digital dance with the notion to
change the dancing style in this era
of digitization.
Digital dance, sponsored by
Madhuvan Hotel and Latica Impex,
in the form of hip hop, Bharat
natyam, etc. were performed
without tempering with the basic
art of these dance forms. However,
a total of ten teams participated to
the best of their ability while at the
same time giving a tough
competition to eachother. Judges-
Mr. Arun Jayprakash, Mrs. Vinita
Shimal and
Mr. Saroj Bora- evaluated the
competition on the level of dance
PR Club-IPL BIDDING
2015
DIGITAL DANCING : GEMS
BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT

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style, technique and prop used,
enthusiasm, synchronization, and
energy and thus announced the
two ultimate winners- Sabin&
Team from the Doon Valley Public
School (first position) and Diljeet &
Team (the runners.up).
The performances that attracted a
huge crowd and received
tremendous applause from the
audience for its concept and
success, proved to be a huge
success for the members of the
GEMS.
Harshika Maakan (MA Energy Economics).
HRUday-The HR club has
conducted “ Selfie Mudra” an
awareness program on RIO+22.
The program is a compatible
Corporate Social Responsibility
(CSR) activity which has scores in
NAACaccreditation and API
performance index of the college
besides certification to
participants. The zealous
participants under Rio +22is a
short term International
certification programwhich will
give student participants an
opportunity to understand and
respond to science, politics and
economics of climate change and
its impact on the future. The
distribution of study material
comprising the book and DVD on
climate change for the participants
has already started, informed Dr
Ruchi.Tyagi.
Shobhit Wadhwa (MBA- IBI)
Sanskriti the Cutural Club of
COMES, Kandoli Campus became
the star of the Fest. The club has
been the center of most of the
events since its formation and they
have delivered the same in the
UURJA- 2015 as well.
Apart from being in the organizing
committee of Uurja, the club
participated in different events.
One such event was dhirati- talent
hunt competition,a flagship event
of the Fest. The club bagged the
firstprize of Rs. 15,000 by
performing a group dance with
team members as Ayushi Tyagi,
Akansha Bhatt, Vijhyath Kumar,
Asmitha Shemwal, Devansh Mishra,
Anmol, Vaibhav and Thomas K
Philip. However club Sanskriti was
the winners on second position
(earning Rs. 10,000 as prize
money) as well with Avinash
singing a classical composition.
Parichay, the drama group of the
club, performed a mime act "Ishq-
Ek Junoon" as a special
performance in Abhinay.
The act, as it got a standing ovation
from the audience, was the story of
the Musical Play revolving around –
Generating several
applause from the audience, the
play accomplished in inspiring the
youth of UPES through a strong
story and passionate actors.
Deepika Maakan (MBA- IB).&Harshika
Maakan (MA Energy Economics).
With emerging trends in
infrastructure and development
there comes a question of
investment, and therefore to
exhibit the area of PPP to the
students and fellow faculties
Rakesh Rajan- Director of housing
and urban affairs in Niti Ayog,
government of India- was invited
and was called for to share his
understanding on the said topic.
Guest Leture: Public Private
Participation And Urbanization
‘Dostiekesarishta jo hum banatehai,
naahii ye khoonkarishtahai,
naahii ye humechuntahai,
ye to bas ekesarishtahai jo hum
banatehai,
Iskineevbhi hum rakhtehai,
or paltebhi hum hai,
Tabhi ye rishtahamaredil k
kareebhotahai...
Ekesa hi
rishtathaAnanyaaaurAnshka.’
SANSKRITI Club- UURJA
2015
HR CLUB: Selfie Mudra

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Starting with the
differencebetween Niti Ayog and
Planning Commission, Mr. Rakesh
Rajan explained the need for PPP as
well as the meaning of it. With PPP
comes the features of it and its
infrastructural deficit and thus, his
speech covered various other
important topics such as types of
PPP, Pure PPP, Conventional vs.
Mr. Rakesh Rajan also lectured
about the concept of
URBANIZATION. Not only his
oration included major issues of
Urbanization, he excellently
delivered as to why urbanization is
important. However, the key points
to this theory remained to be major
trends in urbanization, the rural vs.
urban state, challenges as well as
launching of Urban Rejuvenation
Mission and last but not the least
why urbanization is critical.
Harshika Maakan (MA Energy Economics)
The third week of October has been
informative as well as enlightening.
With the guest lectures on PPPand
Urbanization, course MA
Economics (with specialization in
energy) was introduced to the
concept of Artificial Neural
Network under the guidance of
prof. Pankaj Badoni, CIT- UPES,
Bidoli Campus.
The course, MA Energy Economics,
explores the theoretical and
empirical perspectives on
individual and industrial demand
for energy, energy supply, energy
markets, and public policies
affecting energy markets and
therefore it becomes important
them to understand the concept of
Artificial Neural Network. Wherein
Artificial Neural Network is nothing
but a family, in machine learning
and cognitive science, of statistical
learning models inspired by
biological neural networks (the
central nervous systems of animals,
in particular the brain) and are
used to estimate or approximate
functions that can depend on a
large number of inputs and are
generally unknown.The guest
lecture, consisting audience of MA
Energy Economics batch of 2015-
2017 and 2014-2016 respectively,
was explained in three parts
including
Part-I on Introduction to AI, Types
of Learning, Biological Neural
Network, Introduction to ANN,
Part-II on Perceptron single layer
and multi-layer perceptron,
different types of activation
functions and other available
networks and Part-III on
Implementation on MATLAB:
Introduction to MATLAB(Various
Commands), Neural Network
Simulation(from tool/without tool)
for a dummy dataset.The session,
hence, came to an end as prof.
Pankaj Badoni discussed various
aspects of the ANN and MATLAB
Workshop On Artificial Neural
NETWORK
CLUBS AT A GLANCE/FORTHCOMING
EVENTS
1.Movie Club: Preparing to screen
more movie
2.Jigyasa club: Moview review events
3.PR Club: Recruitments of new
members and re-structuring
4.CEO Speak: few more CEOs to
deliver lecture
5.IMI and NGO club:More officials
from ministries and government
departments
6.Sports Club: Practice session for
Basketball tournament
7.QuizClub:Series of quiz-based
activities planned
8.CR Club: Director of Earnst& Young
most likely to visit
9.Alumni Club: More alumni tapped
for campus interaction
10.Manthan Club: Some marketing
events planned
11.Finance Club: Event under
planning
12.Sanskriti- The Cultural Club:
Planning to organize “Voice of CoMES”
13. GEMS: Planning for events to be
done in IGNITE
14.Technology Club: Managing
members
15.HR Club: Organising online exam
for RIO Summit
CoMES welcomes Dr.
Chandra Prakash Sharma who joined
Department of Power Manaagement as
Industry Fellow recently. Dr Sharma
has amassed various degrees from
esteem universities like IISc Bangalore,
HBTI and Agra University. He
has also worked for The Institute of
InternationalEducation, U.S.A. and has an experience of
36 years in various distribution activities.
Dr CP Sharma joins CoMES