1 Volume 2 Issue I, January 2020 PDF of the CURSOR 5.0 Volume 2 Issue I, January 2020 2 Contents 2nd Runner-up - MR FABB INDIA Beauty Pageant show 2019. .................................................... 4 ACM Hour Of Code ....................................................................................................................... 5 ACM Winter School ....................................................................................................................... 7 ACM Women Hackathon ............................................................................................................... 8 Armed Forces Day at SICSR......................................................................................................... 9 Ayushi Khare, Chhavi Trivedi And Meghna Das placed 3rd for TRIDENT Track Smart City ....... 11 Banking Sector: Year in Review .................................................................................................. 12 Chishki Knowledge Sharing Session ........................................................................................... 15 Completed the .22 Bore Rifle Open Sight Rrimary Rifle Training Course ................................... 16 CURSOR 5.0 - Launch ................................................................................................................ 17 Deepankar Pundale and Diksha Choudhary were shortlisted to attend the ACM Winter School on Cyber Security ............................................................................................................................. 18 Developer Circles from Facebook ............................................................................................... 19 Empathy- The power within ......................................................................................................... 20 Ganesh Festival........................................................................................................................... 30 Gender Sensitization ................................................................................................................... 31 Handover Ceremony of ACM Student Chapter ........................................................................... 33 Hatching Out................................................................................................................................ 34 IEEE Day at SICSR ..................................................................................................................... 37 IEEE SIGHT ................................................................................................................................ 38 IEEE Student Branch at SICSR has received the Outstanding Upcoming Student Branch Award 2019 under IEEE India Council. .................................................................................................. 39 IEEE WIE International Leadership Summit ................................................................................ 40 Independence Day 2019 ............................................................................................................. 42 Induction for the Batch: 2019-2021 ............................................................................................. 44 International Intercultural Day...................................................................................................... 45 International Internship at Ritsumeikan University....................................................................... 48 IS Orientation Programme by International Cell SICSR .............................................................. 49 Kick them,Boot them,make your way,Barca Barca all the way!! .................................................. 50 Megh Sawke , Devang Joshi, Akshat Jain and Vaikunth Goyal placed 5th for TRIDENT Track Agriculture ................................................................................................................................... 51 O GREAT AFRICA: A WONDERFUL PLACE ............................................................................. 52 Orator Club Event Block Trade.................................................................................................... 55 Prof. Dr. Jatinderkumar R. Saini acclaimed amongst the top 1% of Reviewers by Web of Science .................................................................................................................................................... 57 Prof. Dr. Jatinderkumar R. Saini conducted an FDP on 'NLP and languages' in ELTIS .............. 58 3 Prof. Dr. Jatinderkumar R. Saini has successfully completed the ' Certified Peer Reviewer Course' by Elsevier. ..................................................................................................................... 59 Pune Mentoring Programme - IEEE, SICSR ............................................................................... 60 Simeen Khan Ayyub, Pragya Parmita Sambodhi and Pragya Kumari placed 4th for TRIDENT Track ........................................................................................................................................... 61 Talking Hands .............................................................................................................................. 62 Teachers Day Celebration ........................................................................................................... 63 Top Researcher of the Quarter (RotQ) for the period of July-October 2019. awarded to Prof Dr. Prafulla Bafna .............................................................................................................................. 65 Trident 4.0 - Hackathon ............................................................................................................... 66 Waste Management at SICSR..................................................................................................... 68 WIE Affinity Inauguration ............................................................................................................. 69 Winners of the Critics Award – International Day Dance Competition ......................................... 71 4 2nd Runner-up - MR FABB INDIA Beauty Pageant show 2019. Author: Devraj Kukreja(BBA-IT, 2018-21) Devraj Kukreja(BBA-IT 2018-21) was selected amongst the top 3 amongst 700 contestants in MR FABB INDIA Beauty Pageant show 2019. He bagged the third prize for the modeling assignment on July 21, 2019 Finale. CURSOR 5.0 | VOLUME 2 ISSUE 1, JANUARY 2020 5 ACM Hour Of Code Team of Volunteers for ACM Hour of code on 9th December, 2019 at Hutatma Rajguru School Students interacting with ACM Hour Of Code volunteers on 9th December, 2019 at Hutatma Rajguru School CURSOR 5.0 | VOLUME 2, ISSUE 1 JANUARY 2020 6 7 ACM Winter School ACM Winter School on 10th December-20th December, 2019- Deepankar Pundale from SICSR ACM Student Chapter, was shortlisted to attend the ACM Winter School on Cyber Security at NISER, Bhubaneshwar wherein she learnt various insights on security and cryptography algorithms. CURSOR 5.0 | VOLUME 2, ISSUE 1 JANUARY 2020 8 ACM Women Hackathon 4th National Level ACM Women Hackathon on 16th and 17th November, 2019 in the reading room. CURSOR 5.0 | VOLUME 2, ISSUE 1 JANUARY 2020 9 Armed Forces Day at SICSR Major Akshay Kulkarni addressing the students in Room 407 on the occasion of Armed Forces Day celebration by Cultural clubs on 7th December, 2019 Our audience of Armed Forces Day celebration by Cultural clubs on 7th December, 2019 CURSOR 5.0 | VOLUME 2, ISSUE 1 JANUARY 2020 10 11 Ayushi Khare, Chhavi Trivedi And Meghna Das placed 3rd for TRIDENT Track Smart City On September 20th and 21st, 2019, TRIDENT 4.0 was a joint student branch initiative hackathons funded by IEEE Region 10 and IEEE Pune Section. 35 teams participated from across Pune colleges. SICSR students bagged the third, fourth and fifth positions. Ayushi Khare, Chhavi Trivedi and Meghna Das participated from track smart city, received sum of Rs.2000 and third prize certificates. CURSOR 5.0 | VOLUME 2 ISSUE 1, JANUARY 2020 12 Banking Sector: Year in Review Author: Siddhesh Sarode (BBA-IT 2017-20) Banking sector started with a pretty slow trade on, marking the new year opening of 2019 with opening of 27,304.55 points (as of 7 Jan 2019) . Turning ahead with the introduction of ICT enabled banking features and drop in PSU bank customer retention, the market showed a bear side to the BANK Index till the end of the fiscal year. With new boom of RBI norms changes, the banking sector showed a massive bounce back in the month of March and April , marking total volume and sales increase by 2678.27 points. The Election of May 2019 added onto the fear and tension in the banking sector , with major party influencing the policies and laws , the market was laid low for a couple of weeks. Third week of May became the market changer as the Exit Poll predicted NDA of regaining power , with positive response from dalal street the banking stock with other market indices soared , which brought up nearly 5.33 Lakhs Cr. from the market to the investors , other markets were being directly influenced too. The rally lasted till first week of July touching the index to 31660.81 points. Marking the 5th of july , the Bank Index showed nose dive technicals.The introduction of new laws and norms by Finance Minister N.Sitharaman erode the investors money by 2.22 lakhs Cr in couple of days.The banking sector since then saw a really bad phase with lowering the Index down to 26727.24 13 points. The major anchor weight was Repo Rate cut , an amalgamation of various PSU and district corporate banks (Karnataka Bank) and the Case of YES BANK which was termed as “Diamond Stock” in the starting of the year and then started to degrade, with lakhs of investors vested in it.The Yes Bank Crisis got the Banking sector investor in dilemma and 14 so does the stock started to dive in from 275.09 INR to 47.05 INR (52 week lowest of 29.2 INR). With a total of 12 banks (as of listed on NSE) , all the bank showed negative change in there stock price with lowest being -3.31%Chg of RBL Bank. Government is putting heavy amount of taxpayers money to solve all the NPA’s , which doubts the integrity of the banking system ,as most of all the state owned bank were indulged in NPA clearance. With newer reforms and international monetary changes , the indian banking sector is likely to grow back in year 2020-21, with major focus based on categorization of banks , minimizing NPA and increase in lending options by Banks. Private banks like YES Bank is trying to meet its financial debt by considering foreign investment as to maintain its position in the market and pay back all the debts. While it's too early to predict the path of the Banking Sector , it is sure that Private Sector Banks will perform adequately enough to maintain investor interest and pull back the stock up to the bull position. CURSOR 5.0 | VOLUME 2 ISSUE 1, JANUARY 2020 15 Chishki Knowledge Sharing Session VOLUME 2, ISSUE 1 JANUARY 2020 Chishki Knowledge Sharing Session on 2nd July 2019, Lecture by Prof. Harshad Gune in Room 306 16 Completed the .22 Bore Rifle Open Sight Rrimary Rifle Training Course Author: Nachiket Raval (BBA-IT, 2019-22) Nachiket Raval completed the .22 bore rifle open sight primary rifle training course by Ahmedabad military and rifle training association. CURSOR 5.0 | VOLUME 2 ISSUE 1, JANUARY 2020 17 CURSOR 5.0 - Launch Cursor 5.0 Launch on 6th of July,2019 Prof. Harshad Gune, Dr. Rajashree Jain and launching the cursor the SICSR magazine in Room 407 CURSOR 5.0 | VOLUME 2, ISSUE 1 JANUARY 2020 18 Deepankar Pundale and Diksha Choudhary were shortlisted to attend the ACM Winter School on Cyber Security Author Name: Deepankar Pundale (Msc.SS 2019-21) , Diksha Choudhary (BCA 2018- 21) Deepankar Pundale and Diksha Choudhary from SICSR ACM Student Chapter, were shortlisted to attend the ACM Winter School on Cyber Security at NISER, Bhubaneswar on December 10th to 16th, 2019 wherein they learnt various insights on security and cryptography algorithms. CURSOR 5.0 | VOLUME 2 ISSUE 1, JANUARY 2020 19 Developer Circles from Facebook Event Date: 15th of September,2019 CURSOR 5.0 | VOLUME 2, ISSUE 1 JANUARY 2020 20 Empathy- The power within Author: Gayatri Venugopal-Wairagade, Faculty Member, SICSR, Pune. With the onset of this semester, I was presented with a teaching challenge. I was assigned to teach a course named ‘Design Thinking’, a course that was devoid of programming or any technical element, putting me completely out of my comfort zone. The course was relatively new to me, and to the best of my knowledge, it had not been taught to the earlier undergraduate batches, which made it difficult to decide the pedagogy to be followed. The course content looked theoretical in nature at first glance, but as teachers, we know that a one hour monotonous lecture on the theory of a topic is the best strategy one can adopt if one wants the student to start calculating the number of remaining sessions they should attend to clear the dreaded 75% mark. This may come as a surprise to a few students reading this article, but teachers themselves are not very enthusiastic about monotonous sessions either. So I started taking blended sessions that involved lecture, solo and group activities on general topics around design thinking, such as innovation, stretching your imagination, team formation etc. I used this time to study more about the history, applications and various phases of design thinking. The first phase was Empathy; this article does not cover the remaining phases. You may refer to designthinking.ideo.com to know more about Design Thinking. Empathy refers to the ability to understand the other person’s feelings and feel what they are experiencing. This is much different from sympathy, a more familiar feeling. It is easy and relatively effortless to sympathise with a living being in distress, but empathy requires a selfless intent, patience and practice if it does not come naturally to you. The big question in front of me was, ‘How can empathy be taught in class?’. Design thinking is about solving problems by ideating with limited resources at your perusal. And to implement the same, I referred to various articles and a few research papers revolving around empathy. For the challenge at hand, I decided to take inspiration from Cameron et al. (2019), wherein the researchers studied how students empathised with a picture presented to them. The activity was divided into five tasks. You may also take part in the exercise as you read through this article.