ICON 2010

ICON or InterCorporate Outbound National Championship was a three day

extravaganza held between 10th September and 12th September 2010. The
objective of the event was to bring corporates out of their sedentary work style
and give them a shot of adrenaline pumping adventure. In that,the event was a
grand success as no less than 13 corporate teams participated & the participation
of a few host teams added to the fun as well.Emerald, a photography contest was
held as a curtain raiser to the main event.It was a grand success with around 120
participants and there were 330+ contesting photographs in the lot to choose the
winning ones from. The creative imagination of the participants was on display as
pictures ranged from stacked water containers to the camera-shy spotted deers-
the cynosure of the IIT-M campus. The top honour went to this picture
<<emeraldwinner.jpg>> of the IIT oxidation pond shot against the backdrop of a
hostel building by Silambarasan .As part of the main ICON event, games such as
Snake Race, Burma Bridge, Rafting, Trust Fall were held and the management of
the adventure events was done by Adventure Zone, an ISO 9001:2008 certified
firm. Students of DoMS volunteered themselves for aiding the coordinators to
make the event look organized and spotless. The feedback from the corporate
teams that had participated was highly encouraging. As the age old adage goes
Pictures can speak louder than words can! Have a look at some of the ICON
snapshots. <<ICON1,2,3 Jpgs>>
 SHAASTRA 2010
Shaastra is an identity of IIT-Madras and year after year it has been bringing
together creative, intelligent & thinking minds to a conglomeration and this year
was no different. In this year's event held from September 29 to October 3,
student participants were from all IITs & other prominent engineering colleges
across the country and the distinguished chief guests and event judges were from
among the who's who of the research world.
It also gave the DoMSians a wonderful opportunity to collect the pearls of wisdom
offered by professors such as Richard.B.Freeman, professor of Economics at
Harvard University and Alex Taghi Tabarrock, a professor of Economics at
Virginia’s George Mason University. If the thirst for technical enlightenment was
quenched by astonishing events such as AirShow, HackFest, Da vinci Machine,
AeROBOtics, Imagineer, the mathematics related Pentathlon, an array of
workshops et al , ethereal entertainment was offered by a spellbinding Laser
show which ended, aptly, in making us look forward to Saarang - The other big
identity of IIT-M to be held in January 2011! The impact of Shaastra was so huge
that it left people staring the 365 day countdown for Shaastra 2011 when the
curtains went down.