The morning session proceeded with Guest lectures given by Dr Joseph Thomas (Head, Centre for Bioethics, Manipal Academy of Higher Education) who discussed Ethical challenges in Student research, Dr Narasimha B Bhat (CEO, Manipal Dot Net Pvt. Ltd.) on Innovation in Backyard and Dr Srikanth Prabhu (Associate Professor, Dept of Computer Science & Engineering, MIT, Manipal) who spoke on technology and health sciences, also encompassing a presentation from the winners of Philips Hackathon engaging a humongous audience covering senior faculty members and students from various institutions like KMC, MCODS and MIT, Manipal.
An equally fiery afternoon session was up next comprising of Inter Collegiate Poster Competition for Undergraduates witnessing a hefty exhibition of about 100 posters on topics ranging from Health to Technical Sciences leaving the judges with a challenging task.
The day concluded by giving out the winning certificates and momentos that were bagged by 6 participants from Health Sciences category while 2 from Technical Sciences.
Winners : Health Sciences
1st Prize : Keerat Kukreja & Supriya Bhatara - MCODS, Manipal
2nd Prize : Shradha Bhutoria & Manan Arora - MCODS, Manipal
3rd Prize : Anoop Shaji - Century Dental College, Kerala
Winner : Technical Sciences
Atishay - MIT, Manipal
Consolation Prizes
Meenakshi Ray - MCODS, Manipal
Prabhjeet Singh - MCODS, Manipal
Akshay Mohan & Jonathan Koshy - MCODS, Manipal
Debanjan Panja - MIT, Manipal
