Quark 08-Engineering Perfection

Quark 07 was the first technical festival of bits-pilani goa. The festival was not up to the expectations of many students for they wanted something as flashy as waves again. Quark happened only a week after waves and this did serve as a reason for the not so enthusiastic quark 07.

Having  studied the reasons for failure, the orgC of quark 08 began their work months in advance. The mistake was not repeated – gap between quark and waves was a decent 30 days this time and quark happened earlier. Care was also taken to keep the teams for both the events as disjoint as possible. Division was done more professionally with more care and every department that was involved in the event tried their best. The result was evident- abt a 1.3 million sponsorship amount, an outstation participation of 400 students and more than  registrations. Quark 08 showed that technical festivals can also be entertaining. rohan and bhiday came up with a software that took care of every participant’s complete data reducing the woes at the registration desk as well as providing necessary information whenever necessary?  the total number of registrations for the events ended at a  4300..a very good participation for a technical event in an infant college like BPGC. An awesome work by the information management team that communicated for more than four months with the students and answered their queries, the publicity team that looked into the registrations and sending posters to good colleges in major citieslike  bangalore, hyderabad, mumbai, chennai, the spons who garnered a very respectable amount, all the assocs who worked for the betterment of their events led to the glory. The performance by the mime club was decent on the second day but was shadowed by the breath taking performance of the jugglers from the London “Feeding the fish”. The standing ovation by everyone inside the auditorium after the show just gives a glimpse of their perfection.

the magical jugglers in action

Three workshops were a part of the three day event- aeromodelling, origami and telescope making . Stalls by major companies like Bosch, nVidia, Schlumberger, Reuters adored the library and the venues. Quark merchandise also was everywhere during the event- from notepads and pens to tshirts. The airshow was a great treat to the eyes. The gaps in between the events were covered by informals where akhil, pranshu, prateek and co did a wonderful job.

The result was the fantastic quark 08 whose  team was congratulated by many participants from other colleges via mails, calls and appreciation through blogs . At the end of the day,i only had one thing in mind, the caption would have been more apt, had it been redefining perfection rather than engineering perfection.