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TechNews I Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Dandiya Dhamaka Festival dance hypnotizes campus

By Pranamee Sarma
TECHNEWS WRITER

The word ‘Festival’ was first coined as
a noun in 1589, now it is more of an adjective
with celebrations, gifts, food, dance and
reunions India is one country with a festival
for almost every month, at times even for every
week in a month, representing the vast diaspora
of communities present

One of them is the much awaited
‘Navratri’ or the’ Festival of Nine nights’ where
the Goddess Durga is worshipped in different
ways in different parts of the country Without

going into the details of the worship one thing
that this festival brings with itself is lights in
the dark sky and merriment among people:
Although we see colors, gaiety and welledressed
people (custom for almost every festival in
India) in every part of the land the best part of
this festival is the particular dance enjoyed by
the young and old equally

This dance form is called ‘Dandiya’
which is an Indian folk dance using two sticks
and needs no formal training: It’s the fun and
enthusiasm in a form that brings out the steps
innatelyI The only thing required is the spirit of
the dance:

The form is actually a heavenly one,
whyI say so is because ofthe links with Lord
Krishna, a charmer himself with his special
dancing skills, which is called the ‘Raas’ (in
simple words , his ‘style of wooing the dams el’I)
Everybody glitters in their traditional ‘raas’
attires with a ‘pumpeiteup’ attitude and an
ebullient aura:

An amazingly interesting and
hypnotic dance form enjoyed by people of
India and now coming to Illinois Tech, for one
and all:

The event is being organized by
the HT, Indian Student Association at Hotel

Mariott, Chicago Downtown this Thursday,
the 21st of October as a mark to celebrating the
festive month with much hoopla and energy
The event ticket itself portrays the beauty of
this event and the ethnicity that Indian culture
offers:

The ticket sales are on and there are
about 300 to go, available with OSL for 15$ and
20$ (noneIIT, one per student): This includes
a grand buffet dinner at the hotel: Believe me,
you cannot miss ‘The Event of the Year’, which
is bigger and grander than last year! Register at
tinyurl:com/iitdandiya2011: Hope to see you
there!

 

Chicago Ideas Week fuels innovation, creativity, competition

By Utsav Gandhi
CAMPUS EDITOR

Despite a typically wet, cold, windy
Chicago morning, many roads let to the Idea
Shop on Thursday, 13th October, 2011 for
the IPRO Initiative with Chicago Ideas Week
titled “Feuling Innovation: It included an open
house with IPRO exhibits, rapid prototyping
lab tours, and a talk by Jeremy Harris from IIT’s
Institute of Design There was a lunch mixer
with representatives from local companies
and then formal IPRO presentations from the
five participating teams, which provided great
insight for students looking forward to join
IPROs in the upcoming semester: The student
speaker was Edward Suda, (Architecture, 2009)
and Coefounder, eMotion, where he detailed
the role of the Idea Shop in enabling his new
venture: The Keynote speaker was Mead C:
Killon, (Math, 1970) CTO, Etymotic Research:
Other distinguished speakers included Jeanne
Arens, Associate Vice President for External
Affairs and Mike Gosz, Vice Provost for
Undergraduate Affairs, along with Matt Blakely,
Director of Motorola Solutions Foundation
The importance of innovation was highlighted
multiple times during the day, with a focus on
designing, learning, brainstorming, prototyping,
experiencing, experimenting and storytelling

A synopsis of the five teams who
presented (source: the individual description
statements):

311: Polar Power

Sponsor: McGill Arctic Research
Station, Axel Helberg Island, Canadian High
Arctic and the Canadian Space Agency

Faculty: Blake Davis (INTM)
(davisbl@iit:edu)

The McGill Arctic Research Station
is located at 79edegrees north latitude: Power
here is provided using solar panels which take
advantage of the many hours of sunlight: During
the winter, data from the site is transmitted via
satellite to researchers at McGill University
in Montreal by the Canadian Space Agency;
however, the sunlight is inadequate during
the middle of the winter to power the satellite
transmitter/receiver at the station, and data
transmission ceases for several months: The
IPRO team will be working to design a wind
turbine generating system to power this satellite
transmitter during the winter months when the
solar power system becomes inoperative:

335: Redesigning the Primary
Educational Experience in Haiti through (One
Laptop per Child OLPC)

Sponsor: Haiti Ministry of Education

Faculty: Laura Hosman (SOCSCI)
(lhosma.n@iit:edu)

Description: The Haiti Ministry
of Education is deploying 10,000 laptops to
pupils from grades 2 to 5 (or 6) in about 40
schools located in 4 regions of Haiti, in this
first phase of the project: This laptop project is,
in fact, part of a larger, nationwide program to
modernize and improve the quality of primary
level education across the country The Ministry

of Education in Haiti has been partnering with
the IPRO program in order to help address these
challenges:

362: MORE: (Mobile Operating
Room Engineering) Life

Faculty: Linda Pulik (Institute of
Design) (pulik@id:iit:edu) and Monica Chadha
(ARCH)

Description: The purpose of team
M:O:R:E life (IPRO 362) is to be able to design
a costeeffective mobile operating room that
can be easily deployed and transported into
disaster relief situations in order to provide a
sterile and sanitary surgical environment for
the victims of thes e: Excellent progress has been
made in the Spring 2011 semester, which will
make building on this work easier for future
sections: The current class intends to do at
least one round of prototype testing with the
assistance of a collaborator in Uganda, where
everyday conditions in medical environments
mimic disaster relief conditions more closely
than in Chicago:

361: Lego Art & Virtual Gallery:
Exploring Creativity & Self Expression for
Urban Youth Development

Faculty: Jim Braband (SSB)
(braband@iit:edu)

As a result of the significant
reductions in funding for music and arts
programs in the Chicago area, innerecity
children have fewer resources available to them
to channel their creativity in a positive manner
and be recognized for their achievements:
The proposed Lego Art Program would use

outside funding and volunteers to introduce
a new, emerging art form using Lego bricks
which would be incorporated in afterschool
and summer programs and promoted through
a virtual gallery This program aims to provide
a positive outlet for a child’s energy, offer a
unique form of selfeexpression and encourage
recognition of individual achievement that is
often missing:

365: Simply Park: Innovating
Solutions to Enhance the Driver

Faculty: Blake Davis (INTM)
(davisbl@iit:edu)

Description:

Parking garages are congested,
confusing, inefficient and expensive: It is
difficult or impossible to differentiate one
garage from every other parking garage: Since
everyone pays the same amount, space is used
inefficiently Parking operators haven’t had
the incentive to take advantage of the latest
telecommunications improvements to offer
customers things like reserved parking: Lack
of technological improvements have prevented
different business models from being applied to
garages to create a better customer experience
and improved profitability Simply Park is a set
of technological improvements which increase
the throughput in existing parking garages,
create customer loyalty and brand identification,
provide better utilization of the garages, and
allow operators to develop pricing schemes to
satisfy the financial and convenience needs of
their customers:

 

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