CHEMUSEMENT

The Department of Chemical Engineering, MVJCE, organized a Club activity ‘CHEMUSEMENT’, on 10^th December, 2021. The event started at 1:30 pm and ended at 4:00 pm and was attended by 80 students (27 groups) from the Chemical Engineering department.

The thought that led to the conducting of this event was: ‘Every day, we learn something new, but hardly bother to analyze our general knowledge, along with analytical skills’. This event aimed at making the students exercise their thinking skills and logical ability.

ROUND-1: INITIUM INTERBREW

The questionnaire in this Round not only tests the students’ knowledge of Chemical Engineering concepts but also covers topics such as Geography, basic Chemistry, Sports, Entertainment and Math. This Round was conducted for 30 minutes; 27 teams participated and received scores based on their performance.

ROUND-2: CHENNIGMA

This was a Riddle game, where students were tested on their logic and drawing skills, and analytical skills through sudoku and crossword puzzles. Each team was given 3 puzzles to be solved, each puzzle carrying 10 points. Marks were awarded based on how fast they solved the puzzles. The teams were given 15 minutes to do this.

ROUND-3: POTION BREWING

In this Round, each team had two reactions to perform. One reaction carrying 4 marks and another with 6 marks. A reagent was provided, and participants had to guess another reactant from the given list of options and carry out the reaction. Each team got two hints. Based on their performance, marks were awarded.

On adding the scores from all the three Rounds, the 1^st place was secured by Abhishek (1MJ18CH001), Deepak R (1MJ18CH012) and Dreamster Regi Abraham (1MJ18CH013) from 7^th semester Chemical Engineering. The 2^nd place was secured by Praveer B N (1MJ18CH008), Preetham T S (1MJ18CH031) and Sri Dikshaa H (1MJ18CH037) also from 7^th semester Chemical Engineering.

The event was very interesting, interactive, and beneficial to the students. The students solved the questions, displaying a strong team spirit, they pitched in new ideas and actively took part in this virtual Club activity.

Outcome

“Knowledge is true if it’s based on logic, and not memory”. As a change from the regular curriculum, the students felt refreshed, and learnt a lot about time management, teamwork, presence of mind and logical thinking.