Editorial Board Pulwama Day Observation Patrons:- Dr. K N Thrivikraman - Chairman Sri. K H Parameswaran - Secretary Dr. S P Subramanian - Principal Dr. C T George - Vice Principal Prof. Sushma M - Dean - Academics From the inaugural ceremony Members:- On 14th February 2020, as a program started at 3.00 pm of love. Then the security Sri. Jayan P - Member, part of Pulwama Day in the seminar hall with the guards shared their experi- Director Board Obsevation, the NSS Unit inaugural address by Dr. ences in their service years Prof. Thankachen P V - observed the day by orga- George. C.T. After the inau- for the Nation. The program Head EEE nizing a Honouring Pro- gural address the Head of winded up by 4.00 pm with Prof. Sudheer K V - gram for the Ex-Military departments honoured the the vote of thanks by Vol- Head CE Servicemen (Security Prof. Ganesh P - Head CSE security guards and pre- unteer Secretary followed Prof. Praveenkumar K - guards of Sreepathy). The sented them gifts as a token by the National Anthem. Head ME Mr. Jishnu N - AP/ AS&H Ms. Ashmy Antony - AP/CSE Mr. Vishnu K - Lab Instructor - AS&H Honouring the Ex-Service men Mr. Pradeep M - Lab Instructor EEE Message from Principal I am extremely happy and proud that Sreepathy Institute of Management and Technology is releasing the half yearly Newsletter “Panchajanyam” for the period January – June 2020. I congratulate the editorial team for their hard work behind the compilation of the reports of various activities organized during the period. I am also excited to know that various departments, associations and clubs like NSS, IEDC, IEEE, IE have organized useful events both online and offline for the benefit of staff and students. I wish the efforts will continue and the future editions of Panchajanyam will be better and better in terms of contents and quality of presentation. Dr. S P Subramanian Stay Safe. Together let us overcome the difficulties caused by the pandemic COVID Principal -19 Srishti - Online Fest On 24 March 2020, the During this Lockdown period, International Dance Day Competition Government of India under the NSS Unit of Sreepathy Prime Minister Narendra organized an online fest Modi ordered a nationwide named “SRISHTI” to nurture lockdown, limiting the various talents of the movement of the entire 1.3 students. The volunteers of the billion population of India as unit along with staff a preventive measure against organized a number of events the COVID-19 pandemic. with proper guidelines. Bottle Art Competition As a part of SRISHTI, the Unit conducted Bottle Art From the online Dance Competition competition for students both inside and outside Sreepathy. International Dance Day is a modern ballet. The day strives Certificates were distributed to the prize winners. global celebration of dance, to encourage participation created by the Dance and education in dance Committee of the through events and festivals International Theatre Institute held on the date all over the (ITI), the main partner for the world. performing arts of UNESCO. The NSS Unit 233 of SIMAT The event takes place every observed this day by year on 29 April, which is the conducting Online Dance anniversary of the birth of Challenge competition and Jean-Georges Noverre released a performance (1727–1810), the creator of video of the volunteers. Quiz Competition The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book. Every year MAY 11th is Bottle arts by students observed as the NATIONAL The NSS Unit 233 of SIMAT also observed the TECHNOLOGY DAY. The following days: day marks the anniversary of Pokhran nuclear tests of 1998 World Day Against Child Labour-12/06/2020 and India’s technological World Blood Donor Day-14/06/2020 advancements in the space. Vayana Dinam-19/06/2020 As a part of this day, the NSS students of Sreepathy on 12th International Yoga Day-21/06/2020 Unit 233 of SIMAT has May. Certificates were International Day Against Drug and Illicit organized an online Quiz issued to the participants and Trafficking-26/06/2020 competition for all the winners. Road Safety Awareness - Mask Challenge Programme

NSS Volunteers making masks Poster making by NSS Volunteers COVID-19 has changed all our lives in the recent weeks. The NSS Unit of SIMAT Technology and the people While a vaccine is still far away we can only protect observed the National road around the campus. The NSS ourselves by social distancing and by using face masks and and safety week by providing volunteers of SIMAT other protective shields. During this pandemic period face a lot of helpful and necessary prepared posters to aware mask has become a part of our daily lives. The NSS Unit information to the students of the people about the road and 233 of SIMAT along with the staff of Sreepathy have took Sreepathy Institute of safety measures and the an initiative in making masks for the needy people and Management and importance of road rules. students of nearby schools and also for our college. Break the Chain Campaign The first case of the 2019– suspended all tourist visas, spreading the awareness the community about the 20 coronavirus pandemic as a majority of the about COVID-19 and virus and precautions to be was reported in India on 30 confirmed cases were focusing on the personal done in order to reduce the January 2020, originating linked to other countries. hygiene development. chance of spread. Mr. Syam from China. This Epidemic The Ministry of Health & Being a part of the Break Prasad G (PO NSS UNIT, named COVID-19 have Medical Education actively The Chain Campaign the SIMAT) put a start to the spread in many parts of the work to reduce the spread NSS UNIT 233 of SIMAT campaign by giving world. The educational of the Corona virus. placed awareness posters sanitizers to the staff of institutions and many As Prevention is better than and hand wash inside the SIMAT and giving an commercial establishments cure the Government of college campus and nearby awareness among them to have been shut down to had started a Restaurants, Hotels, Tea keep the personal hygiene. prevent the spread of the campaign “BREAK THE shops, Bakeries etc. Few virus. India has also CHAIN” aiming at volunteers gave an idea to

Part of Break the chain campaign TAKSHILA - Three Day Adventure Camp of various adventure bases Syam Prasad. G (NSS PO). and activities. It had various The inauguration of the 3-day competitions and camp was done by Mrs. interactive and practical Sushma.M (Head of ECE sessions under experienced trainers from Kerala State Bharat Scouts & Guides. The camp was intended to induce courage, confidence and socio-cultural values among students. From Inagural Ceremony

st rd The NSS Unit 233 of 21 -23 , 2020 at Sreepathy. From felicitation speech Sreepathy Institute of Dept. & Dean - Academics. Management and Ms. Bhagyasree.P.G (NSS Technology conducted a Associate PO) and Mr. self-organized Adventure Sarath. S (Asst. Prof. ME Camp for the first time in the Dept) delivered the history of Sreepathy as well felicitation Speech. The as among the other NSS From felicitation speech inaugural session ended by Units in Kerala. The 3-day The 3-day Adventure camp 5 pm with the vote of thanks Adventure camp - From welcome speech “Takshila” started with the by Ms. Anagha.G (NSS TAKSHILA was from Feb The camp was comprised welcome speech by Mr. Volunteer)

The first session was an Ice about the National Service Mask Distribution breaking session handled Scheme and the need & by Mr. Sulfeeker Aly P.K oppurtunities of NSS. The (Founder of “TEAM session was really IGNITE INDIA”, NSS interesting and entertaining Trainer). for the volunteers. The first The session influenced the day of the camp ended by volunteers and brought a 10.30 pm after the gaming spirit in them & gave an idea session.

Handing over masks to the Head Mistress As a part of the MASK CHALLENGE, during the COVID-19 pandemic time, an initiative by the NSS UNIT 233,SIMAT, started on 22nd of MAY, the first set of stitched 100 masks were collected from the volunteers. On 5th June, these masks were handed over to the Smt. Jayasree(Head Mistress, GHSS NAGALASSERY) by Mr Syam Prasad G (Programme Officer, NSS Unit From group gaming session 233,SIMAT). Day - 2 [22/02/2020] The second day of the camp started at 5.30 am with morning drill & exercises, followed by assembly at 7 am. After fresh up and breakfast the adventure base started by 9.30am. The following are the events - Tunnel crossing, Dummy leg walking, Rope balancing, Ladder crossing, Beam balancing, Shooting, From Adventure session Tyre crossing, Blind walk, Fire walk, Treasure hunt, Dark room rescue. An Emergency first aid session was handled by Mr. Akhil.T.A(57th Rabindranatha Tagore Open Rover Crew) & Ms. Sherin (409th Annie Besant Open Ranger Crew). The day winded up by 11pm with cultural programs.

From Adventure session Day - 3 [23/02/2020] The last day of TAKSHILA Crew), Joseph Ancel started with morning drills Bonaparte( 57th and March past followed by Rabindranatha Tagore Open the assembly. After the Rover Crew).All were assembly the volunteers representatives of Kerala cleaned the campus. State Bharat Scouts & A session on Disaster Guides. Management was handled The 3 day camp ended with by Nandhana.P.J(409th the feedback session Annie Besant Open Ranger followed by the Prize Crew),Anjana.N.R(409th distribution session & Annie Besant Open Ranger closing ceremony.

Prize Distribution Disaster Management Session Onlininayi Oruma - Phone Distribution Campus COVID-19 pandemic Internet Connectivity. Beautification brought sudden changes to The Volunteers of NSS Unit the society especially 233 SIMAT took an initiative education system of Kerala. to sponsor a smart phone to a The classroom teaching degree student in system has been completely Nagalassery locality by changed to Online teaching raising fund. Many kind procedures. Classes through hearted people contributed to television and mobile phones this fund collection. have came into effect. On 18th June few volunteers Flower pot painting Classrooms were replaced by along with Mr. Manikandan, As a part of campus online platforms like Google Ward member of beautification work, the Meet, Zoom etc. Handing over smart phone Nagalassery Panchyath NSS volunteers of Even though in this students struggling to attend visited her home and handed Sreepathy conducted technologically sufficient online classes due to lack of over a Smart Phone to that campus cleaning and flower world, there are still many resources and improper family. pot painting on 25th January Content Writing Competition 2020. As it is said that boredom Women in is the mother of creativity, IEEE SIMAT SB organised Engineering - a “Creative Content Writing International Day Competition”, having an active participation of 30 celebrations students from several Every year 23rd June is celebrated colleges. The theme was as International Women in “Happiness”. The Engineering Day. WIE Affinity competition was done Group of IEEE SIMAT SB also observed this day online release online “Write from Home” of a video by all the lady staffs of and started from 10th April Happiness during this lock down. The contents were our college. Through the video th till 14 April. Participants reviewed by the content team leaders of IEEE SIMAT they spread empowering message were asked to write their SB. Top 5 contents were selected and were published to all the young girls in ideas and definitions of in official instagram handle. engineering and also Technical Quiz commemorated eminent women IEEE SIMAT SB had conducted a Technical in engineering, their struggles and quiz as a part of our college tech-fest most importantly their great panchajanya 2020. The quiz witnessed vibrant achievements. By the release of participation of students who were ready to com- the video we officially launched pete with each other on science and related top- the instagram handle of the WIE Affinity Group of IEEE SIMAT ics. On a total 45 students participated among SB. which the top 5 students were selected. The questions were based on science, inventions and

From technical quiz about IEEE the largest organisation of scientist inventors and engineers. This session was coordinated by Neeraja, MDC of IEEE SIMAT SB and Surya, WIE vice chair of IEEE SIMAT SB. Onnayi Munneram an expert volunteer trainee of NSS, Social Activist who bagged the prestigious National Youth Award in 2000 for outstanding voluntary service. The session included motivational speech, sharing life experiences, group activities, games etc. The session was effective as it opened the eyes of the students to the world of reality. From Group activities It helped to reflect the real On 15th January the NSS with the presidential address personality and character Unit 233 of SIMAT by Mr.Syam Prasad.G (PO, within ourselves. It was an organized a motivational and NSS SIMAT). The session energetic and memorable group dynamics session for was then handled by Sri. session. The session winded the first year students of Brahmanayakam by the feedback, vote of SIMAT. Mahadevan thanks by students and the PO The session “ONNAYI –Renowned motivational handed over the token of love MUNNERAAM” started speaker, Special Educator, to the guest of the day. From Onnayi Munneram IEEE Annual General Meeting experience and about IEEE. responsibilities were handed The Oath was taken by the over. The former chair former chair of IEEE SIMAT delivered a speech on past SB Mr. Mohammad Irfan experiences and also (S8, CSE). IEEE SIMAT SB explained duties of each Branch counsellor Mrs. members. The new chair Sushama M, HoD ECE, gave a brief idea of future delivered a speech about the plans and activities and a activities of IEEE. small discussion was done Mohammed Irfan presented with the member for the the report of activities same. Surya (S4, CSE), WIE conducted by the SB in the chairperson of IEEE SIMAT year 2019.The IEEE SIMAT SB expressed the vote of From the AG Meeting SB honoured the outgoing thanks and the feedback IEEE SIMAT SB conducted Parvathi (S6, EEE) secretary executive committee from the participants were Annual General Meeting on of IEEE SIMAT SB handled members and handed over taken. 24th February 2020.The the welcome speech and the momento for their welcome speech was Assistant Professor Mr. excellent service. The new delivered by Thushara T Saneesh D Department executive committee (S6,ECE), Vice chairperson coordinator of CSE shared members were announced of IEEE SIMAT SB. Uma the glimpses of his and the duties and World Environment Day pollution, human the essential infrastructure and in the gardens of each overpopulation, and global that supports life on Earth and volunteers to nurture the warming, to sustainable human development. future. Even during this consumption and wildlife Pandemic period our staff and crime. volunteers actively took part The theme for World in this small step towards Environment Day 2020 is, protecting our nature for future ‘Time for Nature,’ with a generations. focus on its role in providing

World Environment Day is celebrated on 5 June every year, it has been a Sreepathy NSSUnit observed flagship campaign for World Environment Day by raising awareness on cleaning the college environmental issues surroundings and planting Poster by NSS Team emerging from marine new saplings in the college Mathrubasha Dinam Republic Day

Flag hosting ceremony Republic day is a National Technology celebrated the event and it honors the date National Republic day on 26/ From kavitha parayanam on which the Constitution of 01/2020. The celebration February 21 is celebrated as The NSS unit of SIMAT India came into effect on 26 started with the NSS song the International Mother conducted a “Kavitha January 1950 replacing the followed by the flag hosting Language Day worldwide, Parayanam” competition in Government of India act by Mr. Hithes P (Asst. Prof). as declared by the United the college in order to mark (1935) as the governing Ms. Bagyasree P G (NSS Nations in 2000. The annual the importance of our mother document of India and thus, Associate PO) delivered the observance is marked to pro- tongue. Along with the stu- turning the nation into a newly thought of the day and Mr. mote awareness of linguis- dents the staff also partici- formed republic. The NSS Sarath S (Asst. Prof) tic and cultural diversity and pated in the event to make it volunteers of Sreepathy delivered a speech about promote multilingualism. colourful. Institute of Management and republic day. Manaveeyam - 2020 The motto of this program patient case file and returned was to visit and take care of back to a common point in all the patients registered in each Panchayaths. At the Pratheksha for a single day. closing ceremony volunteers Few volunteers of NSS Unit, presented the financial needs SIMAT also took part in this and conditions of the patients Mega Home Care. they visited and discussed the The program started by the further steps. There had a flag off of 83 vehicles, each total of 400 volunteers who vehicle with Doctors and offered their selfless service. Nurses, by Mr V.T Balram, The Janamaithri Police also MLA at 10 am from the offered their full support and Chalissery Mulayamparambu service for this program. The Flag off mega home care by Mr. V T Balram, MLA Temple ground. Each vehicle day was a good experience In accordance with the Mega Home Care on 12 visited 7 patients and for our volunteers as it went Palliative Day, Pratheksha January 2020 named recorded their details and through the lives of many Palliative Care organized a “MANAVEEYAM 2020”. present conditions in the people in our society. National Girl Child Day Celebrations The National Girl Child Day creating a healthy and safe is celebrated in India every environment for a girl child. year on January 24. It was The NSS volunteers of started by the Ministry of Sreepathy Institute of Women and Child Management And Technology Development and the observed the National Girl Government of India in 2008, Child day on 24/01/2020 by with the purpose to spread arranging a short film show on awareness among people the basis of the safety and about all the inequalities girls fundamental rights of women. face in the Indian society. Ms. Bagyasree P G (NSS The day is celebrated by Associate PO) delivered an organizing various programs Introductory speech by Ms. Bagyasree PG introductory speech about Girl including awareness campaigns on save the girl child, child sex ratios, and child day. Aksharacheppu - Vayana Malsaram Since 1996, the Government Kerala Library Association . online reading competition of Kerala has observed June Panicker’s death date is June “AKSHARACHEPPU”. 19 as Reading Day. Kerala 19. The Government of The students were given an State Education Department Kerala has celebrated his article to read and were holds a weekly reading week death day as a reading day asked to send an audio of from June 19 to 25. since 1996. their favourite portion. Puthuvayil Narayana In association with the Winners were selected by the Panicker (PNV) was the Reading week, the NSS Unit judges after evaluating their founder and publisher of the 233, SIMAT organized an vocabulary in reading. Yoga Sessions Nature Club Activities Nature club of SIMAT and NSS of SIMAT, together observed World environment day on June 5th, 2020. Following competitions were conducted on behalf of NSS and nature club of SIMAT. Tree planting drive “Me and my tree “was conducted in association with world environment day. Poster making competition was Yoga sessions conducted on topic “Protect nature to Three yoga sessions were conducted on save future”. 3rd February 2020, 17th February 2020 and 5th March 2020.Yoga club of Science Club Sreepathy in association with NSS ob- In association with National Science Day, two webinars were conducted. th served International Yoga Day 2020 on The first one was on 29 July 2020 by Mr. Renjith.P.C., Assistant Professor 21st June 2020 Sunday. This year the EEE on “Energy Audit”. Second expert talk was conducted by Dr. K.T. theme set by United Nations is “Yoga Madhavan, Head R & D Dept of our college. The topic of the talk is “LASER for Health - Yoga at Home”. and its Applications” on 14th August 2020. Achievement Motor Automation Workshop A motor automation workshop was conducted as a part of fund raising program for the SB in relation with the Tech Fest. This workshop witnessed the presence of 11 K Nanda Krishnan Ajith Krishna C Abhin K participants including the To support the people of the locality, during this execom members and IEEE Motor Automation Workshop participants pandemic period, a team of students developed two SIMAT SB Volunteers. This workshop marked the beginning of a apps named Shops and Consumers which are avail- series of workshops which aims at producing a product which can able to download on Play Store. S2 CSE students be marketed. The basics of an automatic water level controller K Nanda Krishnan, Ajith and Abhin, created the that turns off the motor when the water rises beyond a level was app under the guidance of Mr.Saneesh P S, Asst. taught. The participants were imparted with basic concepts circuit, Prof, CSE. connection and components used in the product. Webinar Series The session was handled by Sreehari G, S6 EEE and Rahul SIMAT IEDC, IEEE, IE, and NSS, in association Rajagopal, S6 EEE. The participants were also familiarized with with and under the sponsership of various depart- circuit simulation and practical session on PCB layout was also ments like, MHRD, NITI Aayog, IIT Bombay, IIT provided. A small doubt clearing session was done after the Madrass, DST, IIS, KSUM, ASDC, IRTC, workshop. The session wound up by 3:00 pm with a feedback Coursera, UiPath, Google, NIT, Amrita Viswa from the participants. Vidyapeetham, KSCSTE, Sigma Edited and Published by Sri. K H Parameswaran on behalf of Sreepathy Compendium, Diocese, EFY, etc coordi- Institute of Management and Technology, Vavanoor, Palakkad Dist, nated a webinar series during the period April to 679533. 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