Eikon Club Activity ‘ Achiever’

The Department of Information Science and Engineering organized a Club event titled ‘Achiever’, on 18^th November 2022, at Smt. Rajalakshmi Jayaraman Seminar Hall. The event started at 9:30 am and concluded at 4:00 pm. 256 students from all the semesters of the Dept. of ISE and CSE (Data Science) participated in this event.

Chief Guest Sreekanth G.C, Senior Systems Analyst for TESCO, inaugurated the event, and transferred his Industry knowledge about internet Phishing and AWS to the students.

Phishing is a type of social engineering where an attacker sends a fraudulent (spoofed, fake, or otherwise deceptive) message that is designed to trick a person into revealing sensitive information to the attacker[1], or deploy malicious software on the victim’s infrastructure like ransomware. Phishing attacks have become increasingly sophisticated and often transparently mirror the site being targeted, allowing the attacker to observe everything while the victim is navigating the site.

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered pay-as-you-go basis. These cloud computing web services provide distributed computing processing capacity and software tools via AWS server farms.

About E-ikon Club event ‘Achiever’

The event was comprised of three rounds. 256 students participated in the first round, 50 students in 10 teams (5 students in each team) in the second round, and 5 Teams (each team with 5 students) in the third round.

First Round: Apptitude Round

This round was an Apptitude round where questions were given to test the aptitude of the contestants. There were crossword questions, too. 30 tricky questions had to be solved within 30 minutes. The questions were uploaded on online platform. Participants were using their own devices (mobile/laptop) to answer the questions.

Second Round: Puzzle Round and Treasure Hunt

The individuals who cleared the first round were eligible for this round. The participants had to group themselves into teams of 5 students for this round. Certain parts of a code were given in chits, while the rest of the code was missing. First of all, the students had to find clues via chit (treasure hunt) and using clues students have to code in computer.

Third Round: Debugging Round

The 25 students (5 teams) who cleared the second round, went on to the third round. In this round, each team was given a pre-written error code which had to be debugged within a specified time. After completion of the third round, winners and runners-up of the Eikon Club event ‘Achiever; was announced by Prof. R. Kumar, HOD, Dept. of ISE. The two best teams were awarded prize money and certificates.

The Winners were the following students from the ISE Department:

1. Shivani -1MJ20CD032, Deepthi M – 1MJ20IS023
2. Nayan – 1MJ19IS060, Amogha -1MJ20IS009

The Runners-up were the following students from the ISE Department:

1. Vivekanand -1MJ20IS108, Sufiyan -1MJ20CD35
2. Zoya Khanum -1MJ20IS17, Sudhanva -1MJ20CD034

Faculty Coordinator of the Event:

Prof. T Gayathri (AP, Dept. of ISE)

Student Coordinators:

1. Saurav Kumar (1MJ19IS087)
2. Ritik (1MJ19IS078)
3. Shashank (1MJ19IS088)
4. Akash Gaurav (1MJ19IS007)
5. Abhishek Pandey (1MJ19IS002)
6. Shruti Pulstya (1MJ19IS091)
7. Upasana Ghosh (1MJ19IS099)
8. Nihitha Lella (1MJ19IS062)
9. Vishakha kashyap (1MJ20CD042)
10. Sri Vathsa Upadayaya(1MJ19IS094)
11. Anjali jadhav (1MJ20IS012)

Outcome of the Event:

During the brainstorm sessions of this event, the participants developed codes using their problem-solving and coding skills. The students were able to analyze, design and enhance their technical skills, applying it to various topics and fields related to Information Science and Engineering. This event gave a measure of the technical competence level of the participants.