Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Incubation Centre at The NorthCap University

The NorthCap University (NCU), Gurugram inaugurated ‘The Master Jagannath Centre for Excellence & Incubation’ (MJCEI) the new start-up incubation platform at the University on 26 April 2017. The Centre was inaugurated by the Pro-Chancellor, Prof Prem Vrat and partners Mrs Snehlata Jhamb and Mr Mayur Jain. The event was graced by the presence of Pro Vice-Chancellor, Brig SK Sharma (Retd), Prof. Ravindra Ojha, Director, School of Engineering & Technology, Mr BK Gupta, Director, School of Professional Attachment and Registrar, Col Bikram Mohanty (Retd).



The Centre’s chief objective is to help create an environment for research and innovation, including software products and apps followed by incubation for commercialization. MJCEI aims to help young minds to transform their innovative ideas into viable business propositions, a platform facilitating a budding entrepreneur to start a business venture with minimum risks. Incubates will have access to technological assistance which will be generated through mentors with multidisciplinary expertise.


Speaking at the occasion the Pro-Chancellor, Prof. Prem Vrat said, “The University encourages young enthusiasts with new ideas and an inherent zeal to be entrepreneurs to take advantage of this novel initiative. We will nurture our faculty and students to innovate and invent, build technical skills and imbibe confidence to be competitive and ready to seize opportunities for the benefit of the society.” 

The incubation centre is an initiative of some of NCU Alumni, Mr Kashish Jhamb, Founder Managing Director of City Innovates Pvt Ltd, Gurugram and Mr Mayur Jain.

NCU Marketing and Admission Team

In April and May on weekends, the Marketing and Admission Team of NCU conducts career guidance seminars for 40- 50 students along with their parents at the NCU campus .

 
Seminars at external venues have been conducted at Dwarka and GK II on 7 May, Laxmi Nagar on 14 May 2017. Each session was attended by over 60 UG and MBA aspirants. Students for UG studies were given an interesting talk on 'Careers after class XII' and PG aspirants about 'Any MBA v/s the next gen MBA' and ‘Importance of entrepreneurial ecosystem around’ followed by an interactive session with both UG and PG aspirants.



Thursday, May 25, 2017

NSS School Outreach Programme

The NSS society of The NorthCap University took an initiative to inculcate a positive attitude among underprivileged students of different NGO’s and a government school. On 10 April 2017 four teams under NSS were formed to make young students of different schools aware of the increasing competition and stresses they might face physically and mentally.

Team 1 – SBY School

The team decided to take an initiative to make students aware about career counselling, positive thinking, first aid, spoken English etc. 10 volunteers were allotted SBY School. Few took career counselling session for 9th and 10th class in which they were guided about the streams they can choose ahead in 11th class and the importance of being independent. They were curious to know about the various career option like Defence, Engineering, Medical etc. Pamphlets were also distributed. Sessions for positive thinking for class 6th and 7th was also undertaken, asking them to be happy in all situations. Overall the whole session turned out to be interactive and successful.

Team 2 - Girls Senior Secondary, Sector 6 

One of our teams visited the Government Girls Senior Secondary School, Sector 6 Gurugram. They targeted students of class 6th, 7th and 10th. For class 6th and 7th a Spoken English session was held to improve their communication skills. Students were keen to participate and learned to interact with others around them, which raised their confidence.

    

A Fun quiz was also held and games were played with a lot of enthusiasm. An informative session of career counselling was held for class 10th. It proved to a great learning experience for the school students and our team alike .

Team 3 - Mahavir International School, Sec 17

The NSS Volunteers had put in laborious efforts to make the event fully interactive discussing about how to be positive in all the situations. Same lessons on arts and dance were also given.

We gave them knowledge and also entertained them and helped them to laugh and enjoy. 
Positivity and the dance activity made the ambience rejuvenating and the smiles on the faces of kids made our day. The motto ‘Not me, But You’  made wonders  in our lives that day.

Team 4 – Harmony School, Sector 17, Gurugram

Our NSS team decided to take an initiative to aware the students about health, sanitation and first aid. Our team was allotted Harmony school, Sector 17A, Gurgaon, in which they interacted with kids ranging from 5 years to 10 years. It was an amazing experience. We taught them about regular hygiene, in an interactive session and conversations with them. They listened to us patiently and answered the questions after the seminar was completed. In all it was an astonishing and satisfying event for us.

Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Pre Placement Preparation

Pre Placement Preparation is crucial to help students gear up to face the professional world. Keeping this in mind, School of Management organized the Pre Placement Interviews on 22 April 2017 for their MBA students. The Alumni of SOM - Pushap Karan  (Macquarie, Investment Bank), Rishika Singhal (Moody's Analytics- Investment Banking Division), Noopur Gupta (Quotemykaam.com (Home services provider), Trisahla Bhan (Proviti), Abhinav Malik (Protiviti) and Puneet Khanduja (Mercer Consulting) – made it to their alma mater for this event. The interactive session started with the alumni sharing their journey from campus to the corporate world and then the MBA students asking a lot of questions. Following this, the PPIs commenced with three panels. Each panel dedicatedly spent an average of 20-25 minutes on each student giving detailed feedback on their strengths, areas of improvement, CV correction etc. The event started at 11 am and continued till 5 pm. 





Talent Search at SOM

The School of Management organized the 'Talent Search' – A competition based event from 18th April '17 to 21st April'17. The objective of conducting this was to identify and encourage students, who are self-driven and looking beyond their textual knowledge. It comprised of various competitions namely; Extempore, Video Analysis, Case Analysis and Creative Writing. Students from BCom (H), BSc. Eco (H), BBA and MBA took part in these competitions. Participants highly appreciated the Video Analysis and are looking forward to more of such opportunities. These events were coordinated by Dr Alpana Agarwal, Dr Mansi Khurana, Dr Saumya Dixit supported by students-Vimal Dahiya, Mahima Anand and Manu Jain.



Saturday, May 13, 2017

Abhimanch Theatre Society presents stage play

The Abhimanch Theatre Society presented their intense path-breaking play ‘Court Martial’ at The NorthCap University, Gurugram on 30 April 2017. The play was written by Mr Swadesh Deepak and directed by the founding member of The Abhimanch Theatre Society and Alumni Mr Nikhil Malhotra.

The play revolved around the General Court Martial of a soldier of Bhaktarband Regiment, Sawar Ramachandra who is accused of killing his senior officer Captain Verma and injuring Captain BD Kapoor. The proceedings of the Court and arguments between both prosecutor and the defence lawyer were worth watching.

The presiding officer of the Court Martial, Col Surat Singh is a veteran soldier and known for his discipline and bravery. The play was well executed by the production team of Abhimanch which was led by Ankita Mehar and Rahul Ghosh.

The play was witnessed by people from NCR and we are told that some Alumni flew from Mumbai to watch the play.

NCU Team wins berth in China International Competition

The MOU signed between Delta Electronics India Private Limited and NCU in Jan’17 under the leadership of DSOET to develop and execute education and research projects has been extremely productive.


We congratulate three students – Vibhor Mittal (ECE), Tanyam Popli (ME) and Shivam Notiyal (ME) for being Pre-finalist team for the Delta Cup Event planned at Beijing, China from 24-26 July 2017. They are one of the three teams (PAN India) who have been selected in a national level Competition. They are currently busy in the creation of their Smart Machine model on ‘Self Check Out system in retail’. Dr. Shiv Manjaree and Ms. Charu Rana have been guiding these talented students. 

The journey in becoming the finalist has been quite an exciting and a challenging one. The University panel selected the talented students through an intense interview in January 2017. Delta Electronics India Private Limited made them go through an in depth training in a team of 77 students at NCU in February 2017. This was followed by the project proposal submission by the student-teams. Seventeen out of the 52 project proposals where then filtered by a selection committee at Delta China. This was finally followed-up by the domain knowledge online test in March 2017.

We look forward to their Smart Machine creation which would be showcased in the Final Contest in WJ, China by our students and faculty mentors Dr Shiv Manjaree Gopaliya and Ms Charu Rana. Our good wishes to the team for the journey ahead. 

Mr. Vimal Pandey, the HR Manager at Delta Electronics is pleased with our performance and has facilitated summer internship opportunity for NCU students as well.