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Think Classic, Think Chennai

We CNUGStudent are organizing an event called “Classic Chennai” (http://classicchennai.net). The event is an online one which would go for a month from March 15th to April 15th and is mainly aimed to make students realize the technology is fun and to motivate them. Through this we also intend to popularize the UG and its activities.

The event is divided into:

Blogging
Photography
Photosynth
Short Film
Documentary
Poster Design

Intro to Classic Chennai:

CLASSIC CHENNAI is a fiesta of month-long online competitions for students, organized by the combined efforts of the CNUG student Chapter and the Microsoft Student Partner (Chennai) community.

Theme of Classic Chennai

It is impossible, not to forget, unwise to classify or categorize something as vast and varied as the city of Chennai. It equally unfair to try to categorize the vast and varied talent pool that the students in Chennai are blessed with. Categorization imposes restrictions and Classic Chennai aims at breaking this very unwritten rule that competitions should pertain to some theme or the other. The crux of the competition is that there is no particular topic a participant should adhere to, in any of the events. Just make sure your entry revolves around what you think Classic Chennai is, in any aspect, and send us your entries. So what are you waiting for? Put on your thinking caps and start expanding your horizons! Let the spotlight turn on YOU and CHENNAI!

This month starting was an awesome time…

I went to kerala to attend the ACM ICPC Regionals Onsite programming round.

I ll start first with the details about ACM ICPC:

Every year Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) conducts International Collegiate Programming Contest(ICPC) where the top 100 teams from all over the world compete at the finals. To select this 100 teams there are regionals all over the world. Since I was from Asia Region i was asked to participate in the regional which will be held in Asia.

So i chose The kerala site which is nearer to me. We went to the Amrita University for the onsite for which the selection was initially did by an online round. They shortlisted around 58 teams for the onsite round.

There were teams from all over India and other asian countries like Singapore, Sri Lanka etc….

The date of contest was 6th. But they said we can reach the site from 4th onwards. Due to the train availability we went to Kerala on 4th early morning 05:30 AM by Kochuvelli Express which was a special train.

All things in kerala was awesome. The most awesome was the Food we got and the Hospitality we had. so some how the day passed away. They had a practice session on 5th so that day was also some how went.

On 6th came the real terror. There were 9 problems which were very challengin. I ll skip saying about the bitter experience of competition. That day evening we had an Entertainment session after the Certificate distribution. It was awesome.

On 7th they arranged for an Excursion to ThenMala. The trip was really cool. Cool in the sense both the enjoyment as well as the weather. Altogether i nealy took photos and videos of 3GB in kerala.

Last but not least the departuring session. We had train at the midnight at 1:30 Guruvayur Express which is not a straight train. The next we woke up at 10:00 and had breakfast and the day passed by talking to the pasengers in the train…

We reached the destination by 9:00 PM and i came to home by 11:00 and it was totally Enjoyed trip with the onli defect of not winning the competiton..