Highlights
of Day 3 Finale
After
2 days of action, conclaves, music, quizzes,
the campus headed for a thrilling finale. Kickstarting
the day was “Red Mile” – The Lucknow marathon
about HIV awareness. The main intention behind
this run was to create awareness among people
about AIDS and its prevention. In keeping with
this line of thought, the students of IIM Lucknow
put their best foot forward in setting up this
6 km long marathon which traced a route from
the FUN Republic Mall in Gomti Nagar, crossed
the RBI, the Taj, the UP Badminton Academy and
back to FUN Republic.
The flagship event “The NEXT CEO reached a thrilling
climax.” 9 budding CEOs from the top B-schools
like IIMA, IIMB, XLRI, SPJIMR, MDI and IITB
fought hard to win this battle of brains. Various
scenarios testing their physical and mental
abilities, teamwork, leadership and ingenuity
were unleashed on participants and the last
man standing from IIM Bangalore, Abhilash S,
will take it all - a cash prize of INR 1, 00,000
and a PPI with Citibank.
“I found this very interesting”, said a radiant
Abhilash as he cradled his trophy. “We had to
devise new ways which were off-beat. The overall
experience has been tremendous. The dedication
shown by the organizers blows me away – the
speed with which they improvised to adjust to
the weather conditions was astounding. The last
round was especially compelling. Overall, it
has been an Exceptional experience”. Nidhi,
a 2nd year PM/IR student of XLRI Jamshedpur
said, “Challenging! Out of the box!”
The
grand finale of another flagship event – Call
for Arms was one of the highlights of the day.
The event saw an intense competition and battle
amongst eight finalists from India’s best b-schools.
If January 23 saw the teams battling on individual
subject rounds related to an M&A, the teams
on the last day battled it out for a B-plan.
Ankur
Soni from IIM Indore said “It was a good competition.
All the rounds were designed in such a way that
all members had to be involved. The whole competition
saw a team effort from all. We liked the concept.”
The organisers had invited Mr. Parthasarthy,
Head of M&A division at Mahindra & Mahindra.
He announced that the winners were the team
of MDI Gurgaon and the runners up were the team
from IIM Ahmedabad.
It
was also a day of entrepreneurial streaks as
the finals of “Nirvaan – The B-Plan competition”
unfolded. Winning the event were the team from
JP.College, Noida. The social entrepreneurship
awards were won by Army Institute of Management
Kolkata, with the team from IIM Shillong coming
second.
The
evening saw a parliamentary style debate “Contrapunto”.
8 teams qualified after an eliminatory extempore.
The topics for the debate revolved around the
Manfest theme India: Expect, Explore, Experience.
Performing live on campus was Kailash Kher and
his band “Kailasa”. Dishing out his popular
numbers like “Teri Deewani” “Allah ke Bande”,
hundreds of music lovers thronged the grounds
and enjoyed the musical maestro at his best.
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