IIPM CHENNAI Amaze

“AMAZE 2008”
Date:               28/02/08 & 29/02/08
Venue:             IIPM Campus           
Participants:   All IIPM students

ARE YOU AMAZED?

Amaze, a creation of Alchemy Club, gives all IIPM-ites the platform to bring forth their positive gesture, to elicit the dormant determination and decisively showcase their talent before an electrifying audience. Amaze is beyond just another B-School festival. It is a celebration of joy, of colors, of success. In fact, Amaze creates a positive approach for these excited young minds and helps to sustain their sporty spirit. IIPM always takes pride in beckoning new challenges and achieving the impossible. In keeping with the same theme, this year’s Amaze was hallowed with the true spirit of Chak De!

Setting the intrinsic energy of Amaze ablaze, IIPM Chennai hosted the event on 28th & 29th February 2008 at its own campus. Organizers and participants were oozing with equal enthusiasm. True to tradition, the event this year opened with a welcome note delivered by Ms.Suchita Lohia of the Fall Winter ’06-’08 batch. The guests of honor Mr. Stanislav Simakhov, Vice Consul, Consulate General of Russia and Director, Russian Centre of Science & Culture and Mr. Vladimir E. Potapov, Deputy Director, Russian Centre of Science & Culture and Head of Russian Language Institute shared their thoughts on the auspicious occasion. Prof.Amlan Ray, Dean-Administration IIPM Chennai and Prof R.Krishnan, Dean-Academics IIPM Chennai, were also present while the guests of honor set the function rolling by the traditional ‘lighting of the lamp’.

The gathering witnessed the participation of a dozen reputed colleges across the city. The students had a celebration time over the mixed flavor of both cultural as well management events like Debate, Quiz, Best Manager, Flip Back, New Product Launch, ADZAP, Antakshari, Face Painting, Sattar Minute (70 minutes) etc, spanning two full days. Brilliant minds argued vociferously over the extremely contentious topic "Mergers and Acquisitions are Murders and Accusations”. Meanwhile the campus was a riot of colors of National Integration for the Face Painting contest. A beautiful concept of fixture created a whirl to the air stream inside the college grounds. The match ‘Sattar Minute’ was uniquely designed to gel with the theme of Chak De’. The conceptualization of the game has its roots in the famous inspirational speech given by the coach of Chak De India’s Women Hockey team just before the final game… “Go out and play the 70 minutes (Sattar minute) of your lifetime.” Sattar Minute managed to ignite souls, challenge minds, evoke sportsmanship and even shot the winner to stardom in 70 minutes.

Here is a run-down of the exciting events.

• The Sr.Manager M&A, ERS, HCL, Mr.Chatrathi V Kalyan adjudged the debate competition-Kurukshetra. Mr.Abhishek Banerjee as faculty coordinator conducted this ‘war of the rational’.
• Mr.Solomon, RJ Radio City, was the judge for the event flip-back. Mr.Ankit Gupta and team, who were the student coordinators along with Mr.Anil Meshack, faculty coordinator coordinated this Twenty-20 contest.
• Sahara Filmy Regional Head South, Mr.Subhasish evaluated the Ad-Zap contest. The student coordinator Mr.Suren Kumar and his team hosted this Style ‘n’ Ad competition.
• Mr. SA Praveen of Planman T & D team hosted the Quiz contest - Breaking the D Box. Mr.Thiagarajan Munusamy, the student coordinator, made his work easy.
• Mr.A.Loganathan, ICMR, Planman Consulting, gave the verdict for New Product Launch (Launch Pad). Ms.Varsha Lal Budhrani and her team members did the student coordination for this event.
• Prof.Abesh Guha, Faculty IIPM Chennai and Mr.Akhil Pattnaik, System Administrator, IIPM Chennai along with Mr.Sharath Kumar and team, hosted the Antakshari competition with great effort.
• Mr.Sagar K Jain of ICMR, Planman Consulting, was the judge for the financial warfare, Wall Street. The student coordinator Mr.Mithileash along with his team coordinated this stock war.
• The student coordinator Mr.Sudhansu Mohan Garnayak and his team hosted the contest for Best Manager-Kabir Khan. Prof.R.Krishnan, Dean-Academics IIPM Chennai kindly consented to pick the best manager from the participants of the event.
• Ms.Chippy Sunny, Admissions, IIPM Chennai, hosted the color contest Rang-De. Mr.Abhishek Banerjee, Administration, IIPM Chennnai, adjudged this Face Painting competition.
• Mr.Ronak Saraf, the student coordinator for the event Sattar Minute hosted the multi-stage, exciting match in a much-organized way.

The young achievers won many prizes and were honored with Certificates of Merit amidst delightful spectators. Mr. Sai Prasad of SRM B School emerged as the champion for the cultural events securing a cash award of Rs.17, 000/-. The grand finale manifested a spectacular choreography and striking ramp show.  The exalted tiaras of Mr & Ms Amaze were bestowed upon Mr. Manaaz Sherrif of BSA Crescent Engg.College and Ms. Paavana Mohan of Womens Christian College respectively by Mr.YoYo, the renowned RJ of Big FM along with IIPM-Chennai’s alumni, Mr.Nabu Chacko Philip. This contest was well managed by the faculty coordinator Mr.Ranjan Sen, Administration, IIPM Chennai along with Ms.Suchita Lohia on behalf of the students’ coordinating team. Mr. James – the famous choreographer of James Dance Company was faced with the daunting task of deciding the top performers of the day in the choreography competition. Mr.Nimesh P.K, SMG, IIPM was the faculty coordinator for this event.

A sleepless night’s effort of the team Amaze 2008 paid off in multiple accolades and applauds from the overwhelming crowd that witnessed the festival. This, however, enticed the team to work with full zeal for the forthcoming Amaze, promising to make it even more challenging.

We received immense support from all our sponsors for this 2 day- long festival. This included Atlantis Engineering, Silver Prince, Thermocraft, Frontline, Mahesh Sindhi Stores, Maha Lakshmi Furnitures, M.A.Enterprises, Olive Enterprises, Siemtel Communications, The Professional Couriers, Reliance Communication and Aaman Welding Works.

Amaze 2008, Chak De! triumphed gloriously and carried a feel of buoyancy among all the IIPM associates. Kudos to all those who participated, organized, competed, contributed, won and enjoyed this festival of youth!