VOL 1 ISSUE1 JULY 2017

newsletter
INNOVATION GARAGE

IN THIS ISSUE Creating a Culture

of Innovation
DONATIONS TO IG
INNOVATION GARAGE IS A FULLY STUDENT RUN
TEDXNIT FACILITY.IT IS RUN BY A TEAM OF 30 STUDENTS
GUIDED BY A PANEL OF FACULTY ADVISERS. WE
BANYA NATION AIM TO BECOME A ONE STOP DESTINATION FOR
STUDENT-FACULTY INTERACTIONS AND PROMOTE
GARAGE GOSSIP INNOVATION, RESEARCH AND
ENTREPRENEURSHIP ACTIVITIES ON CAMPUS.
./IGCONNECT INNOVATION GARAGE AIMS TO CATER THIS
NEED THROUGH CATALYZING THE EXISTING
JOB LAG GAYA!!! SYSTEM OF INNOVATION, BY PROVIDING
STUDENTS ACCESS TO LATEST TOOLS
AND EQUIPMENT & ENABLING THEM TO WORK
ON THEIR PROJECTS USING VARIOUS
TECHNOLOGIES WITH ASSISTANCE
FROM FACULTY AND ALUMNI MENTORS.
 IT'S NOT ABOUT
IDEAS.IT'S ABOUT
MAKING IDEAS HAPPEN.

ALUMNI DONATIONS BY
MR PRABHAKARA
Innovation Garage and the student community of NITW would like to thank Mr. Prabhakar
Puvvada for his continuous feedback and support.

Mr.Prabhakar, an alumnusfrom the class of 1980, closely observes the innovation and
maker culture of our college and often finds creative ways to give back to the college.
He has donated equipment to the facility and was key to the IG awards that aim to
encourage innovation in the campus. His suggestions on Facebook have been invaluable
and helped us improve the quality of resources offered to foster the innovation culture.

THANK YOU for making a difference!

TEDXNITW
AFTER SOME INITIAL HURDLES WE ARE NOW ARE AN

OFFICIAL COLLEGE CLUB. CURRENTLY WE

ARESEARCHING FOR AGOOD MIX OF SPEAKERS AND

PARTNERS TO SUPPORT OUR EVENT. THE EVENT IS

SCHEDULED TO BE HELD ON 8TH OCTOBER 2017 AND WE

ARE WORKING TOWARDS MAKING IT A GRAND SUCCESS.

DONATION DRIVE
DONATION DRIVE was an initiative taken by IG to make

proper use of things which could have gone into trash, and

thus making a difference.It wasn'tjust limited to books. We

opened doors for Arduinos, breadboards, ICs, electronic and

mechanical components that crossed off our juniors Amazon

account wishlist and brought down their expenses. Filling a

google doc and 5 minutes of their time was all that was

required to accumulate 1 lakh + worth of resources including

100+ books and 20+ electronics.Eventually, we plan to lend

these through a portal.

BANYAN NATION
Another feather in NIT Warangal's cap

andIG feels immenseprideto

haveplayed a tiny role. During

January, Banyan Nation coordinated

with us to participate in 'Innovate for

Digital India Contest'

by DST and Intel.Our students were

invited to T-Hub and worked with Intel

and BN team for around 40 days to

build technology for waste

management.

(http://innovatefordigitalindia.intel.in)

Guess what? This project from Banyan

Nation has won the challenge and INR

500,000 (US$7,500) in seed funding.

Thanks to Banyan Nation CEO Mani and

proud of the student team of Archit

Kansal, Ashish Rai and Venkata Sai

Kiran Kompalli that worked on the

project.

Garage gossip is a weekly event which

GARAGE GOSSIP takes place in IG during the weekend.

The main aim of this is to spread

technical/non-technical knowledge

among the students in an informal way,

so as to promote discussion and ignite

the interests of students.

Every week, a person (either from the

college or outside) specializing in a

domain is invited to give a talk about

that topic. The talk can either be about

teaching some technology or sharing their

experiences with other people. The talk is

followed by a casual discussion where

the participants can discuss anything

related or not related to the topic.

The first talk was about front end

development and taught people how to

create their own website-based resume.

The talk was given by Sreetam Das, a

senior student, who covered HTML and

CSS, and taught people how to come up

with their own website. The talk had been

recorded and uploaded to IG's Youtube

channel. We received an amazing

response. We are looking forward to other

exciting talks in the upcoming weeks.

../IGCONNECT
F o r c o n n e c t i n g s t u d e n t s t o I G a n d a l s o t o

s h o w c a s e w h a t I G i s t o t h e o u t s i d e p e o p l e , w e

h a v e c r e a t e d t h e n e w w e b s i t e I G C o n n e c t . T h e

f o l l o w i n g f e a t u r e s h a v e b e e n a d d e d t o i t :

A n y o n e c a n c h e c k o u t t h e p r o j e c t s w h i c h h a v e

b e e n d o n e b y v a r i o u s s t u d e n t g r o u p s a n d a l s o

t h e i r p r o f i l e s a n d s k i l l s e t .

D a s h b o a r d i s p r o v i d e d f o r s t u d e n t s t o c h e c k

t h e l i s t o f E q u i p m e n t s a n d B o o k s a v a i l a b l e i n

I G a n d t h e n t h e y c a n m a k e a r e q u e s t f r o m

t h e i r d a s h b o a r d t o b o r r o w t h e m .

C o n t i n u o u s u p d a t e s w i l l b e p r o v i d e d o n t h e

h o m e p a g e r e g a r d i n g t h e e v e n t s / w o r k s h o p s

w h i c h w i l l b e t a k i n g p l a c e .

W e w i l l b e a d d i n g m o r e f e a t u r e s i n t h e

u p c o m i n g m o n t h .

IG101
Orientation for Freshers -

Innovation Garage is planning to conduct a series of

events for the freshers.A video,which will show the

facilities of IG, past events conducted including various

workshops and hackathons, industrial projects,

testimonials and details about the upcoming events. Its

aim is mainly to encourage the freshers to come to IG

and Innovate with all the freedom and 24*7 facilities.

Apart from this, we shall have an open house where

students from all sections can come and experience what

IG is about by seeing various projects done by students

at IG. Finally we shall complete the journey with a basic

Arduino Workshop.

MECHANICAL TEAMS AT CAMPUS

T h e s e f o l l o w i n g t e a m s a r e w o r k i n g o r h a s w o r k e d i n I G i n

p a s t f e w m o n t h s i n c l u d i n g t h e s u m m e r s .

E f f i c y c l e : C u r r e n t l y i n m a n u f a c t u r i n g p h a s e o f t h e i r

p r o j e c t . C o m p e t i t i o n S c h e d u l e d f o r N o v e m b e r .

G o K a r t : C u r r e n t l y p r e p a r i n g f o r t h e i r V i r t u a l r o u n d w h i c h i s

s c h e d u l e d o n 1 3 t h A u g u s t i n N o i d a .

B a j a : C u r r e n t l y i n t h e i r M a n u f a c t u r i n g a n d d e s i g n p h a s e .

S u p r a : C o m p l e t e d t h e c o m p e t i t i o n i n J u n e .
WORKSHOPS Workshops have played an integral role in how Innovation

Garage functions. We have had workshops right from Arduino

to 3D Printing, Design tools(CAD/CAM) to Game

Development. This year, we plan to keep the same

momentum going starting with IG101 for freshers. It consists of

a workshop for freshers on Arduino , from theory to

Application followed by a contest. Apart from this, we are

planning to conduct workshops on Raspberry PI,Web

Development,Mobile Development,CAD/CAM/CAE,PCB

Prototyping,3D Printing and Image Processing.

Note : This list is tentative and shall try all of them for you. If

you have any suggestions or feedback, please feel free to

contact us.

RENNOVATION
A maker space is not solely a science lab, wood-

shop or art room, rather it contains elements

found in all of these familiar spaces. Therefore, it

must be designed to accommodate a wide range

of tools,activities and projects. Thus the design

team has taken charge to renovate IG. We

encourage students to design,experiment, build

and invent as they deeply engage in science,

engineering and tinkering.

YELLOW MESSENGER SUMMER INTERN

This summer , Innovation Garage conducted an intern Drive for students of NIT Warangal with the

aim to provide them with exposure to industry and startup ecosystem. We partnered with Yellow

Messenger for the same .

Yellow Messenger is one of the successful startups that has emerged from the NIT Warangal

campus with clients such as Microsoft, TATA Power, Pepsico and Diageo. They were looking for

summer interns for their technology department and content writers for their marketing department.

They selected Anirudh Pabba and ABSR Satesh , 3rd Year students from NIT Warangal. They were

quite happy with the selections and the work done by the students.

Note: If any start-up is interested in partnering with Innovation Garage for hiring interns, please

feel free to contact us.

 Innovation Garages Role in Internship & PPOs :

Priyam Khandelwal :

IG is the place where most of my batch mates have startedprojects. We got to know how to

start workon real world projects. It was the place which gave us the opportunity to work with

amazing seniors. The Hackathons gave us really good projects to showcase in our Resume

which later helped during interviews where interviewer was really interested in them and

asked questions related to them.

I have done ML related project in one of the Hackathon, though it was a very small but it was

helpful for me during internship interviews. The thingsIhave learnt in the workshopsIhave

attended in IG were actually used during my Internship project andIdidnt have to spend

time in learning things.

Piyush Kashyap :

I joined NITW as an amateur, without being fully aware of my branch. This gave me a sense of

cluelessness which hindered the quest to discover my passion.

However Innovation Garage, gave me the opportunity to have hands on experience with

projects in diverse field while interacting with many seniors exposing me to a plethora of

opportunities available out there.

IG enabled me to add a feather to my resume in the form of 'Research Intern in IISC

Bangalore' leading me to get Intern and PPO at Fidelity Investments, India.

Along with diverse knowledge of various present day Technologies along with seniors

guidance, I also worked as a student team member for IG. This helped me create immense

opportunities for students of NITW in bringing the best out of them, which made me learn

valuable management skills, helping me to become Student coordinator for Technozion 2017.

Anmol Kulkarni:

My expectation of college was a space where people with brilliant ideas would come together

and make amazing things that people could be proud of. Once I came to college, I couldn't

find what I was looking for, until Innovation Garage opened in second semester. I remember

Game Dev Weekend Hack being the first event I attended and met two awesome individuals ,

Naveen and Anand. It was also where I met VIshal Reddy and we worked together on our first

game. Ever since, I have attended almost every event, hackathon conducted by Innovation

Garage.Thanks to Naveen, IG was the place where I conducted my first event , my first

workshop which ended up having 350+ participants. Apart from all this, the numerous projects

that I worked on in IG and during hackathons has helped me learn a lot and has made my

resume colourful. The technical,communication and managerial skills that I picked up thanks

to Innovation Garage led me to bag an Intern offer from Microland which eventually converted

to a PPO. As the General Manager of Innovation Garage, it's now my dream to provide the

same brilliant opportunities that were presented to me through IG to every student on campus.

many more ...

Innovation Garage is a student run body working towards inculcating the maker
culture among students by conducting various talks,events and hackathons. It has
been made possible by incredible alumni support (guest lectures, mentorship,
intern projects,monetary support) and student participation.Please connect with
usor contribute towards the growth ofstudent community of Innovation Garage. We
assure you we will continue our good work.

Innovation Garage Anmol Kulkarni

Centre of Innovation & Incubation,NITW General Manager,IG
ig-nitw@student.nitw.ac.in anmol@thelakshyafoundation.org