An eventful tech fest

The festival comprised of seminars, programming contests, quiz contests and a gaming contest, which apparently seems a very hard fought competition for the CSE students but faculties said they made it easy for the students to familiarise them with such events. Science and ICT Minister, Moyeen Khan inaugurated the festival as chief guest.

The programming contest between the SUB participants that took off on the first day was based on C and C++ mathematical problems. Eight teams participated at the contest having 3 students in each team.

On the second day of the event, Dr. Al-Amin Bhuiyan, associate professor, Jahangir Nagar University presented a keynote paper on Robotics. In his presentation, Bhuiyan showed a robot named 'Aibo', programmed with visual basic, which had the ability to recognise human eye contact and understand voice instructions.

Sub invited seven colleges to participate in the IT quiz contest and among them Uttara Town Degree College snatched the first position. Other participants were Dhaka Imperial College, Notre Dame College, Adamji Cantonment College, Dhaka State College, BN College and Dhaka Business Management College.

Registration for the gaming contest was open for all present at the Sub IT festival, which resulted in a turnover of forty-eight participants. Six players were selected for each session in a multiplayer local area network (Lan) platform. NFS Underground was played in the gaming contest that attracted a good number of audiences.

Mortuza Ibne Mahfuz, a student of Stamford University won the gaming contest while SM Obaidul Kader Milon, a computer science and engineering student of Sub became the runner up. Gamers were awarded with compact discs.