INSPIRA’21

Inspira’21 was an inter-collegiate business and management fest conducted by CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Pune Lavasa Campus. Students from colleges and universities across the country competed for the title of the undefeated paladins in a spirit of healthy camaraderie in this intellectually stimulating fest. The participants’ managerial abilities were put to test in an assortment of perplexing events and challenges of a conflicting reality in an unknown realm. Where the destructible scenarios demanded immediate attention, participants had to devise solutions that meet out-of-the-world concerns.

“Theme: The Paladins of Alternate Reality”

Before time travel transcends into a physical reality, suffice a series of opportunities that delve into the mystics of the other side. A Parallel reality that instigates and era of trials and tribulations that demands the use of cosmic awareness to amalgamate the powers of the MIND within an audacious will to survive. Combine the paramount managerial abilities as you compete amidst psychological warfare to Battle the Ultimate Nemesis.

We started off with the inauguration ceremony where our honorable chief guest spoke about the importance of being a responsible citizen, our dean and director spoke about the importance of ‘beyond the class learning’ and our HOD emphasized on the role of each and every team member for any event to be a success. The day was then followed by the enthusiastic participation of students, from colleges across India. We saw the Best of Managers and their teams fight against the pressure of being pitted against the clock. We saw the rise and fall of stocks and how future traders plan on handling the news. We saw pitches being delivered in elevators and products being ideated for a better tomorrow. The rounds were both a challenging and learning experience.

Each judge came prepared for a fiery round of questioning. Stress interviews, presentations, and crisis aversions were all thrown around for a bit of the “real world” feel.

All in all, the participants, organizing members, and everyone involved walked away with realms of experiences, that no time travel can give you!

BEST MANAGER: The Crisis Commander

This event consisted of a total of 10 stimulating rounds with 14 participants from various colleges all over India. Both the days saw challenging rounds like website promotion, Crisis of Employment, stark expansion, and countless others which touched upon skills of elevator pitching, budgeting, promotional abilities, analysis and of course stress interview!

BEST MANAGEMENT TEAM: The Four Scorers

This was a contingent event of Inspira’ 21, which saw the participation of a total of nine teams competing against each other. The event included 6 rounds in every possible domain of the corporate world be it finance, marketing, human resources or analytics. Day 1 started off with a basic round and the complexity of the round increased as the participants moved further. Day 1 had a total of 4 rounds with elimination starting from the 4th round. Out of 9 teams, only 7 qualified for the 5th round and finally 5 teams qualified for the final round and competed in the final battle of grit and unity!

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: The Lanista

This event saw a total of 14 teams (28 participants), who participated in 6 rounds, spanning over almost all functions of HRM. These challenging rounds persuaded the participants to display their best human resource management skills. Where rounds like Desi it Up required the teams to create interesting job profiles, DisCalibre assessed the participants’ ability to make candidate screening questionnaires. Nine out of fourteen teams could qualify and participate in the second day which saw extempore, fiery press conferences, and impressive presentations.

FINANCE: The Recession Ragnar

This finance event of Inspira'21 was a 2-day event with 7 teams participating in total. There were 5 rounds conducted over the course of 2 days. On the first day the participants had different rounds from multiple domains of finance. Presentations were collected in the form of videos and judgement was done based on the knowledge and creativity executed by them. The second day had 2 rounds and both the rounds had live presentations. The final round had 3 phases in it and the round was conducted for 2 hours. The quiz and group discussion were interactive and lively and was conducted simultaneously.

MARKETING MANAGEMENT: The Tigrus Transmuters

This war of trades consisted of a total of 6 stimulating rounds with 10 teams (20 participants) competing from various colleges all over India. Rounds spanned over riddles, trivia, sentiment analysis, spontaneous presentations and all participants walked away with experiential promotional and marketing skills.

MOCK STOCK: Stockgic

In mock stock there were total 12 teams competing for the title. The first round was quiz round which had 3 levels. The next round was IPO round which was a submission-based round. The last round for the day was night round which was Anchor round. In this round, students have to analyse a stock like Business news anchors. It was a great round and was carried on till midnight. Now moving on to next day we started with crossword puzzle round which was also an elimination round and 2 teams were eliminated and 5 teams moved to the final round which was Portfolio Management round and Mr. Ravi Barla was the judge of the final round. He gave the whole team valuable feedback and all the participants had an enlightening experience.

CASE STUDY EVENT: The Crisis Chronicles

This event consisted of 6 challenging rounds which pushed participants to their peak potential. The Day 1 began with a fun challenging Crossword based on recent events in the business world. Day 2 starts with a bang as participants engage in a Tug of War, which was a debate round. The Finale culminated with three teams who rose above the rest through their hard work, smart work and dedication, with victory on the line.

BUSINESS QUIZ: Quizzical wars

The event augmented with 13 teams battling their way through various and uniquely designed rounds such as ‘with credits comes great powers’ and not to forget the ‘Allied Wars’. All the participants cooperated and took part in each of the rounds enthusiastically and after immense battles of day-1, top 6 teams made their way to the Quiz-masters Arena i.e., day 2. The top 6 teams faced various interesting challenges in the day 2 rounds hosted by none other than Mrs. Sonal Jain, our Quiz-Master. After two days of constant battles and long history of Quizzical Wars, 2 champion team(s) emerged as the ultimate winners.