Kumbhthon II

On the day of 23 of February of 2014 Kubhthon community arranged an meting. For process of project development. To know about Kumbhthon  please follow link Kumbhthon I. "Mr. Rajesh nair" is guest for second meet-up. He has started national level project competition that is "TECH-TOP". He works in the MIT lab. On the day of meting with mr. Nair, he firstly understood that what is kumbhthon and why it is started. Meeting is arranged in "Sandip Foundation". Mr. Nair sir said that explain about your project in only 2-3 minutes. So we are get confused how to explain about project in 2-3 minutes. Nair sir guided us to what should we have to explain about respective project. Mr. Nair sir suggested some of the questions are listed below. Try to answer this question about your project. So the one member from each group is on the dice for answering these questions. 

Also Mr. Nair sir explained about how to start your own business with the same project. depending upon all of these points sir suggested some question. If we are able to answer these questions then it is possible to start business. 

Questions are:

1. What is the problem do you want to solve?
2. Who faces these problems?
3. Who will get beneficial from our project?
4. Who decides?
5. Who pays?
6. How to develop?
7. What are the resources required?
8. How you will reach to customer? 

From our group Mr. Wasif is on dice, he explained all of the things regarding our project. Mr. Nair suggested some of the changes in our process of development. Also one thing that sir says repeatedly is your meetings are necessary for successful project development. 

Sir also suggested that find your project stakeholders such as: visitors, government, local businesses, transports, Health, NGO, media, trusts etc. 

This session is completely brainstorm session. we have learned lot much of things from mr. Nair sir.

    

Kumbhthon

Kumbhthon is an technical event organized in Sandip Institute of technology and research centre, mahiravni Nashik. This event is organized by Mr Sunil Khandbahale, Mr Ramesh Raskar, Mr Pachorkar and also there are many more people are involved in organizing the Kumbhthon. This event is an workshop for  72 hours. that is all the participant are in the institute for entire 72 hours. The main intention of organizing such event is developing project for the event will organized in the year 2015. This event is called " KUMBHMELA ".

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Government has been done survey that in this event near about 2 millions of people would come. Kumbhmela happens once in 12 years. At the previous kumbhmela people coming to kumbh are faced lot much of problems like accommodation, transport etc. So to take over these problems above stated people take initiative to solve these problem. Kumbhthon organizers are from technical background so they knows that these problems can be solved with the use of technology and they decided to conduct an technical workshop to solve these problems by implementing projects. They invited lot of people from outside and inside of country as mentor for developing project so they will guide participant to implement their project ideas. Following listed persons are mentors invited to kumbhthon:

1. John Werner, Innovator, MIT Media Lab
2. Teppo Jouttenus - EdX (Harvard and MIT)
3. MJ Jouttenus - Language Innovator
4. Gautam Morey - Grassroots Entrepreneur
5. Bal Mahale - head of World Bruhan Maharashtra Mandal
6. Aravind Chinchure - Reliance Labs
7. Kshitij Marwah - MIT Media Lab India Initiator
8. Pete Bell, Entrepreneur
9. Subhash Patil, MKCL
10. Bruce Hecht, Analog Devices
11. Dr. John MacDonald - MIT Sloan
12. Athanasios Athanassiadis - MIT
13. Nilesh Salgaonkar - Teknocrat’s       
14. and many more

In this technical event thousands of participant submitted their ideas, from them hundred participant are selected for 3 days event kumbhthon.

In the first day of event 25 project teams are formed and guest session is conducted after this. As per my experience It was really nice experience to be part of this workshop. My team is working on project online registration for kumbhmela. You would not believe that each participant of that event is acts as like nut's of invetor. because everyone is continuously working from 9:00 am to 1:am every day. At the end of workshop 12 projects are selected for further development. My team continuously focusing on the problem "CROUD MANAGEMENT". My team members are:

1. Borade Vaishali
2. Ghosh Kabita
3. Joshi Puja
4. Mirza Wasif
5. Patil Mayur
6. Wagh Ravikumar 

So I think that it is most effective way to make invention.