IGNITE - 2019 Witnesses Mass Participation

 

The Department of Commerce and Management conducted its first inter-class business fest IGNITE -2019 on 20^th and 21^st November 2019 at CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Lavasa.

The event was inaugurated by Academic Coordinator, Dr Fr Arun Antony on 20^th November 2019. In his inaugural address Fr Arun motivated the students to give their best and reminded them that winning and losing is not as important as taking part. He inspired them to make use of the given platform and enhance their leadership skills by competing in a healthy spirit. Then the anchor introduced all the participants to each activity with related inspirational videos emphasizing its importance.

The contestants competed for the following events; Best Manager, Best Management Team, Debate, HR, Finance, Marketing, Business Plan and Business Quiz. The two-day event saw a lot of active participation of nearly 182 commerce and management undergraduate students across multiple verticals. The event created the right platform for new undergraduate entrants to showcase their talent in various activities.

The teams were classified as follows:

TEAMS

BBA - A RHODES

BBA - A SPARTA

BBA - B DELPHI

BBA - B PHOENIX

BBA - C LARISSA

BBA - C HISTRIA

BCOM - CORINTH

BCOM - ATHENS

The participants were facilitated by a large number of post graduate management students who volunteered to organize the fest. Despite regular classes management students of CIML took out time and coordinated the event. They were spirited and enthusiastic and came up with ingenious ideas. Their involvement went beyond the obvious coordination as they encouraged under graduate students to take part with a lot of zeal and zest. 

A festive atmosphere was created through active participation of the contestants. The tasks rightly assessed their endurance, stress management skills while the focus was on something very specific pertaining to the topic. The events tested their knowledge acumen, communication skills, leadership qualities and it was a perfect event to explore, modify and enhance their professional and personal potential.

Best Manager was most coveted title and tested their skills through marketing strategy, One Man Debate, HR Rap, matters related to Finance and a quiz through Kahoot. They were also given additional tasks such as making Creative CV and Video on Ethics.

To bag the Best Management Team title the participants were judged through a quiz, B-Plan, fun filled activities such as HR Team Building, Art Attack and Dumb Charade. In the final round there was a detailed Case Analysis.

The Business Plan Event was equally exciting and tested the enthusiastic contestants on different parameters. At the outset they had to generate a new business idea with specific reference to the challenges to be faced, they had to also formulate marketing strategy to relaunch an outdated product and convince the investors in their venture. Debate rounds were highly interactive in nature and tested their oratory and debating skills. B Quiz tested their basic and in-depth knowledge on a given topic. The highly thought-provoking and collaborative rounds for HR, Marketing and Finance saw active participation by the contestants. They participated wholeheartedly and gave their best to score points for their respective teams. The fest was one of its kind wherein students competed against other teams to emerge as the best team and get the overall trophy.

Director & Dean, Dr Fr Jossy George graced the occasion on 21^st November 2019 and gave away the prizes in a grand finale which comprised of some final round of Business Quiz, Best Manager etc.  

Fr Jossy appreciated the coordination between the students and teachers. He admired the organizers for taking keen interest in the event and encouraging the students to take active participation. He further congratulated the participants for their whole-hearted participation and inspired the audience to take part in future.

The Best Management Team was DELPHI and the runner up was PHOENIX. Best Manager prize was bagged by Prisha from SPARTA. The other results are as follows:

B QUIZ

WINNER – PHOENIX –KARTHIK AND PAHAL

RUNNER UP – HISTRIA – ANIKET AND TANYA

SECOND RUNNER UP – ATHENS – HAARSH AND NOEL

DEBATE

WINNER – DELPHI – TANWANT AND PV AAHLAD

RUNNER UP - PHOENIX – HARSH AND AYUSH

SECOND RUNNER UP – LARISSA – DEEPIKA AND ADITYA

B PLAN

WINNER - DELPHI – DIVYESH AND VARSHINI

RUNNER UP – RHODES - SAURAV AND HARSHIT

SECOND RUNNER UP – PHOENIX – VAISHALI AND SRI SHANKAR

MARKETING

WINNER – HISTRIA - VAIBHAV AND MOHIT

RUNNER UP – LARISSA – NIKITA AND RABJOT

SECOND RUNNER UP – PHOENIX – NANDINI AND SHUBHAM

FINANCE

WINNER – RHODES – ROHAN AND PRADEEP

RUNNER UP – DELPHI – SRISHTI AND NAMITA

SECOND RUNNER UP – PHOENIX – ANANYA, KALYANI AND AJINKYA

 HR

WINNER – LARISSA – UJJWAL AND JYOTSNA

RUNNER UP – LARISSA – VANSH AND TRIPTI

SECOND RUNNER UP - DELPHI – KANISHK AND KOUSHIK

Fr Arun’s aptly congratulated CMA and the organizing team spearheaded by Dr Benny and expressed his sincere appreciation. He found IGNITE – 2019 an igniting experience and felt that it was heartening to see great student engagement which everyone can emulate.

 

As a goodwill gesture Dr Benny Godwin expressed his heartfelt gratitude and appreciated the positive influence of young Management students on the undergraduate students. He also congratulated them for their support and generosity. He further added that their sheer professionalism eventually won the Fathers' and faculty members' confidence, juniors' respect, and above all it has been successfully proved that they can be depended for any event in future.

Dr Daisy Alexander, HOD, School of Law was overwhelmed by the event and noticed that nearly every student contributed to the business fest in a holistic manner which eventually led to its sheer success.

IGNITE - 2019 was successfully and efficiently coordinated by Dr Benny Godwin, Assistant Professor Shubhashree Acharya and Assistant Professor Amala Siby.