IIT Madras CFI Open House 2022 features more than 60 innovative tech projects made by students
India Today
For the first time, the event was also accessible on a Metaverse Platform called 'Gather Town' to a limited audience this year.
The Indian Institute of Technology, IIT Madras Centre for Innovation's Annual 'Open House' event, which showcases students' innovative tech projects, returned to physical mode this year. Opened to business and industry leaders, alumni, faculty, and students, the CFI Open House 2022 was held on March 13, 2022, on the campus, featuring over 60 projects.
Further, for the first time, the event was also accessible on a Metaverse Platform called 'Gather Town' to a limited audience this year. The students developed a virtual world to showcase their innovations to other stakeholders not present physically.
More than 1,500 people, including around 100 eminent industrialists and IIT Madras Alumni, participated in person with another 500 taking part virtually through 'Gather Town.'
The Centre for Innovation in India's largest student-run 24/7 innovation lab, home to 13 clubs, four competition teams, and more than 700 members. It provides a unique platform for the students of IIT Madras to apply their engineering knowledge and materialise their ideas into products.
Speaking after inaugurating the event, Professor V Kamakoti, Director, IIT Madras, said, "Innovation is the heart of any academic institution. This activity taken up by CFI provides not only a platform for young innovators to showcase their creations but serves as a great source of inspiration for other young students to innovate."
Speaking about CFI, Professor Nilesh Vasa, Dean (Students), IIT Madras, said, "The CFI is a student-driven facility, which inspires students to work creatively and in a collaborative manner towards new technological developments. An open house organised by the CFI will showcase the affiliated team's achievements and dreams which they would like to implement towards realizing the novel technological frontiers."
The Open House hosted projects such as CFI Team Abhiyaan's autonomous vehicle called the 'Bolt,' Team Abhyuday's rocket, Team Avishkar's Hyperloop, a 'Sports Science and Analytics' Project done in collaboration with Sports Science Centre of Excellence, IIT Madras, a Bird Diverter project undertaken in partnership with Wildlife Institute Of India, and projects on Blockchain Technology.
