National Level Technical Fest – HORIZON12 of BCREC in association with the Times of India.

B.C.Roy Engineering College, Durgapur popularly known as BCREC in association with the Times of India (the official media partner) organized their 10^thedition of National Level Technical Fest – HORIZON12 from 25^th to 27^thFebruary in a grandeur manner. The other sponsors were 93.5 Red FM (Radio Partner) Pantaloons (Merchandise Partner) Globsyn Skills (Gold Sponsor) and Ardent Collaborations and many more.

“This college was set up in 2000 by the Dr. B.C.Roy Engineering College Society of the philanthropic visions of the group of entrepreneurs based in Durgapur. It is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy, the architect of modern West Bengal. This college is approved by AICTE. It is our great pride and privilege to declare that BCERC is the only college from West Bengal to be selected for the Indo-US Universities EDUSAT.” – Avers Prof. S. N.Basu - the Principal of this college.

Professor Dr. Swapan Bhattacharya, Former Director of NIT Durgapur was the Chief Guest who delivered his valuable lecture in the inaugural ceremony on 25^th which enlightened the students and highly praised by the guests and teachers who were present in the auditorium. In fine he advised the students in all to become a benchmark in their own domain and not to be a mediocre and never to compromise with quality in the field they have their passion. Dulal Mitra-President, S.N. Basu, the Principal and Tarun Bhattacherjee , Treasurer of this College were also present in the Dias and they all said a few words about the college and the fest.

“Today engineering students are eager to face new challenges and thrive on risks. Whether it is concerning their technical aptitude or general management skills, they are inclined towards broadening their horizon of knowledge. HORIZONE’12 is one such attempt to let the budding engineers from 35 different colleges and more than 1000 students took active part to quench the thirst for knowledge on the war of mind and talent” – said Amitava Chakraborty, the Head of the Corporate Affairs of BCREC.

In fact Horizon offered a wide range of events for the students to showcase their creativity in the field of technology and management. Major attractions for this event were TECHNOCRATZZ which provided a platform for the budding talents to present their innovative ideas in the field of technology. The lists of speakers are unending and the most noticeable were Mr. Animesh Mukherjee who is presently an Asst. Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kharagpur. He worked as a post doctoral researcher in the Complex Systems Lagrance Lab, Institute for Scientific Interchange Foundation, Italy. He enthralled the young minds with the modern concepts of Computer networking. He came along with other four scholars from IIT Kharagpur. The others were Mr. Maunendra Sankar Desarkar. He slot was on Amazing Amazon to Fascinating Face book – Recommendation Problems and Algorithmic Frame works, Mr. Prasenjit Mondal whose presentation was on Medical Image Processing and Mr. Sanjay Chatterjee’s presentation was on Bengali to Hindi Machine Translation using Transfer Based Framework.

The most other attractive programme was ROBOTRIX where latest Robot Technology was highlighted. Though technology of Robots is not new but technology upgrades itself every day and Robotics maintains its status as the thriving field of challenge with new inventions paving the way to artificial intelligence. TECHNOCRATZZ (Technical Paper Presentation) show cased new ideas in the field of modern technology and applied thought and delivered something profound for building tomorrow methodical and industrial world. BIZZCOGITO (B-Plan) for developing entrepreneurial abilities – it was a platform to foster entrepreneurship at college. JUNKOTONICS – turn scrap to gold, where people can make technical devices using junk and turn the scrap into gold. The primary concern in today’s world is our environment. The 3 Rs –Reduce, Recycle, Re-use were the essence to save the environmental degradation.

Filled with fun and excitement on the closing day that is on 27^th was illuminated by IGNITIA 2K12 where top six teams competed in this General Knowledge and Entertainment Quiz. The event was conducted by RJ Neil the renowned radio jockey in the West Bengal circle. He is currently a part of Oye FM. All the students and others present applauded the quiz master for his Excellency.

The last day of Tech Fest saw the war of the Robots and the closing ceremony was illuminated by IGNITIA 2K12 with RJ Niel’s charismatic personality and humourous attitude being the centre of attraction. Top 6 teams were shortlisted out of 362 teams for this mega event. Prizes worth Rs.1,50,000/- were grabbed by the participants in 19 events making HORIZON 2012 a grand success.