BPPIMT has a rich tradition to inculcate in its students an attitude of inquiry in diversified areas. Technical Forum has been formed to nurture their technological know-how. It is the right platform where students can showcase their expertise in robotics, hardware modelling, software and app design.
Function of the Cell
- To provide a platform for students to enhance their technical curiosity with satisfaction.
- To create an environment where they will use acquired technical skills as an individual as a member or leader in diverse teams to implement their ideas successfully in a cost effective manner.
- To encourage students to transform their innovative ideas into sustainable products for the welfare of the society.
Facilities of the Cell
- Auditorium with a capacity of min. 600 for corporate presentations or PPT
- Audio visual aids such as LCDs, OHPs, VCRs, and TVs etc for presentations are provided.
- Networked Computer Labs with high speed internet facility to conduct online test for min. 300 students in single process
- Seminar hall of 200 capacity for result declaration or student interaction.
- Server control room with sufficient IT infrastructure.
- 24/7 Power backup.
Roles & Responsibilities
Coordinator
- To motivate and coordinate students participation in different events and workshop.
- To coordinate students’ participation in inter institute events.
- To coordinate various activities run under Techforum.
Faculty Members
- To motivate and encourage students in different competition.
- To organize seminar and workshop for students to enhance technical knowledge.
- To coordinate various activities run under Techforum.
Student Members
- To enhance awareness of other students
- To participate in various workshops, seminars, awareness camps, competitions and skill development training programs outside the Institute.
- To organize events and workshops programs within the Institute.
Committee members
| Name | Designation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Gitosree Khan | Associate Professor, IT | Co-ordinator |
| Mr. Subhasis Mallick | Assistant Professor, CSE | Member |
| Dr. Susmita Dey | Assistant Professor, CSE | Member |
| Mr. Suvadeep Bhattacharjee | Assistant Professor, CSE | Member |
| Ms. Ankita Indu | Assistant Professor, ECE | Member |
| Mr. Ramesh Kumar | Assistant Professor, ECE | Member |
| Mr. Arindrajit Chaudhury | Assistant Professor, ECE | Member |
| Ms. Sudipta Roy | Assistant Professor, IT | Member |
| Ms. Protyasha Mukherjee | Assistant Professor, IT | Member |
| Mr. Subhasish Das | Assistant Professor, EE | Member |
| Dr. Argha Kamal Pal | Assistant Professor, EE | Member |
| Dr. Arijit Dey | Assistant Professor, MCA | Member |
| Ms. Pampa Ghosh Saha | Assistant Professor, MCA | Member |
| Dr. Kakali Karmakar (Sur) | Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering Mathematics | Member |
| Mr. Joy Roy | STA, IT | Member |
| Md. Atif Khan | Jr. Technical Assistant, IT | |
| Mr. Debasish Sarma | STA, ECE | Member |
| Mr. Ranjit Kumar Paul | SLA, EE | Member |
| Mr. Nabin Pal | TA, CSE | Member |
Annual Planner
| S.N | Programme Details | Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Hardware Model Design Competition (Juno 2.22) and Arduino Programming (Forma 2.22) Competition | 26th March, 2022 |
| 2. | Smart Coders Challenge 2.22 | 26th March, 2022 |
| 3. | Workshop on “PLC Programming” (Only for ECE & EE Departments) & Workshop on Robotics using Python Programming” (For all the Departments) | 17th January, 2021 |
Event List
| Sl. No. | Name of the Program | Activity Date | No. of Participants | Winners | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Academic Year 2024-25 | |||||
| 1 | SIH Internal Hackathon 2024 | 7th September, 2024 | 367 | Rwik Kumar Dutta, Mohammed Azib, Ritwik Bhar | |
| 2 | Inter-College Events – SMART Coder 2.24 (Coding Competition) | 20th & 21st September, 2024 | 312 | 1st: Gourav Dey & Sneha Lahiri – Cppros, Heritage Institute of Technology; 2nd: Sayan Sen & Amit Karmakar – Smart Coders, BPPIMT; 3rd: Arka Chatterjee & Arup Rai – Bit-Byters, BPPIMT | |
| 3 | Inter-College Events – FORMA 2.24 (Hardware Model Design Competition) | 20th & 21st September, 2024 | 56 | 1st: VEDABOTS (BPPIMT, ECE) – Smart Wearable Cap for Blind People; 2nd: Covalent Innovators (JU + BPPIMT, ECE) – AI & IoT Smart Remote Health Monitoring System; 3rd: VANGUARD (CIEM) – Smart Sonar & LDR Missile Launch System | |
| 4 | Inter-College Events – JUNO 2.24 (Arduino Programming Competition) | 20th & 21st September, 2024 | 66 | 1st: Binary Bosses – Kuntal Mondal, BPPIMT; 2nd: Codeplay – Aditya Jaiswal, Bharati Mishra, BPPIMT; 3rd: Quickfix – Harsh Singh, Bapan Banik, BPPIMT | |
| 5 | DIVYANTRA – The Robotics Club Awareness Programme | 1st March, 2025 | 178 | ||
| 6 | TechStorm 2.25 | 17th, 18th & 22nd March, 2025 | 412 | Code Bee: 1st – Abhishek Saha, Sougata Seth; 2nd – Abhishek Tiwari, Ashish Singh (Dhruv). Appmania: Winner – Team SARATHI (Suryanshu Paul, Sujal Agarwal, Srijeeta Dutta); 1st Runner-up – Team FALCON (Upama Das, Mayank Jha). Tech Writing: Winner – Team ULTRON (Md Danish, Md Sayeed Anwar, Afridi Hussain); 1st Runner-up – Prerna Singh, Nerula Institute of Technology; 2nd Runner-up – Tanushka Joshi, BPPIMT; 3rd – Ashwin Kumar, Aman Raj, BPPIMT. Tech Hunt: Winner – Autistics (Rahul Kumar Shaw, Prashant Jha, Yash Kr Singh, Sudiksha Singh); 1st Runner-up – Astros (Aahana Chatterjee, Dishari Anuja Deb, Debosmita Paul, Divyasha Halder); 2nd Runner-up – Byte Buddies (Harsh Jaiswal, Ayush Raj, Adarsh Kumar, Debjeet Kumar, Pata Rani Nandini De). Omegatrix: Winner – Abhir Dutta; 1st Runner-up – Sayan Jana; 2nd Runner-up – Srijan Manna. PES: Winner – Argha Ghosh, BPPIMT; 1st Runner-up – Arkajit Mitra, The Heritage Academy. FIFA: 1st – Abhishek Palu; 2nd – Abhishek Singha. KNET: Winner – Rohit Kumar Mahato, Anish Poddar; 1st Runner-up – Amit Das. Passion with Reels: Winner – The Anonymous Smile (Team Dristikon). Creative Canvas: Winner – The Hands that Forgot to Paint (Team: The Silent); 1st Runner-up – Sriti (Team: Godhuli). Creative Canvas (Team OP): Winner – Protyoy Bhandary, Olivia Sikdar; 1st Runner-up – Shubham Srivastava; 2nd Runner-up – Sania Dhar, Adrija Ghosh (Wings of Fire). RO Terrain: 1st – Unity Vayu (Amitabh Daripa, Tridesh Jha, Anirban Bhandari); 2nd – Unity Akasa (Debayan De, Ritwika Saha, Anirban Bhandari); 3rd – Devta. Aqua Race: 1st – Devta (Rishav Thakkar, Debosmita Paul, Anamika Bhunia, Anwesha Mahapatra); 2nd – Blackbird (Ayan Kumar Mahato, Souvik Mitra, Abhishek Verma, Subhajit Dutta). RO Soccer: Winner – Unity Rudra; Runner-up – T-Rex (Arindam Nandi, Raghunandan Deb, Francis Sayan Majumdar, Nilanjana Dutta, Archisman Mallick). RO Navigator: Winner – GIGABYTES (Rajarshi Bhattacharya, Akash Kundu); 1st Runner-up – GLITCH (Shaswata Mondal, Debashish Dey, Soumil Paul); 2nd Runner-up – ARES (Tiasa Mahanty, Sudiksha Singh, Akanksha Kumari, Soumili Majumdar, Subhankar Sarkar). RO Combat (8 kg): Winner – Devta (Sagnick Rout, Rishav Thakkar, Anamika Bhunia, Probuddha Bikash Chatterjee, Debosmita Paul); Runner-up – Bloodfire (Bilana Chakraborty) | Techstorm 2025 |
| 7 | Budding Genius | 4th April, 2025 | 105 | Technomania Junior: 1st – Sithi R.B.T. Vidyapith (Santu Naiya, Emon Sil, Supriyo Porel); 2nd – National English School (Deeptanshu Chandra, Sayan Samanta, Saksham Roy); 3rd – Patha Bhavan (Archisman Mukherjee, Arghya Roy, Aryaman Banerjee). Code Bee Junior: 1st – St. Augustine’s Day School, Barrackpore (Dwaipayan Paul, Sayan Pal); 2nd – National English School (Aditya Raj Gupta, Sai Siddharth Maharana); 3rd – Narayana School, Sodepore (Aayush Sen). iLLumIZen: 1st – Sumon Sarkar, Chittaranjan Colony Hindu Vidyapith; 2nd – Aritra Karmakar, Chittaranjan Colony Hindu Vidyapith; Joint 3rd – Md. Mobasher Javed, Chittaranjan Colony Hindu Vidyapith & Soumyajoy Chakraborty, St. Augustine’s Day School, Barrackpore | |
| Academic Year 2023-24 | |||||
| 1 | Info Session | 27th August, 2023 | 102 | ||
| 2 | Cloud Demo Day | 1st September, 2023 | 124 | ||
| 3 | Demo Day | 2nd September, 2023 | 119 | ||
| 4 | SIH Internal Hackathon 2023 | 16th September, 2023 | 232 | ||
| 5 | Tech Tide Coding Ninjas with Google DSC BPPIMT | 4th October, 2023 | 200 | ||
| 6 | Smart Coder 2.23 (Part of TechStorm 2.23) | 4th October, 2023 | 525 | Winner: Devil – Aman Raj & Aditya Kumar Sahu, BPPIMT; 1st Runner-up: Gojo – Dipnarayan Sen & Anushka Mukherjee, BPPIMT; 2nd Runner-up: ThroneHolder – Affan Ahmed, Amity University Kolkata | |
| 7 | Inter-College Events – SMART Coder 2.23 (Coding Competition) | 6th October, 2023 | 306 | Winner: Devil – Aman Raj & Aditya Kumar Sahu, BPPIMT; 1st Runner-up: Gojo – Dipnarayan Sen & Anushka Mukherjee, BPPIMT; 2nd Runner-up: ThroneHolder – Affan Ahmed, Amity University Kolkata | ABHIYANTRAN Report 2023 |
| 8 | Inter-College Events – FORMA 2.23 (Hardware Model Design Competition) | 7th October, 2023 | 65 | Winner: Velocita – Sohom Das, Rishita Biswas, Shruti Singh, Pramit Nandi (FIEM); 1st Runner-up: Inspiron – Anuska Das, Mookul Paul, Sabuj Bhattacharya, Rohit Yadav (BPPIMT); 2nd Runner-up: ROTO Phantoms – Abir Kundu, Avirup Bhunia, Anish Das, Dibyamoy Roy (BPPIMT) | ABHIYANTRAN Report 2023 |
| 9 | Inter-College Events – JUNO 2.23 (Arduino Programming Competition) | 7th October, 2023 | 37 | Winner: Qwikfix – Swastik Kumar Tripathi, Sakshi Singh, BPPIMT; 1st Runner-up: led-pin-13 – Md. Miran Jawed, Fahmid Raza (Techno India & Aliah University); 2nd Runner-up: UNO Electronauts – Soumyajit Dey, Subhankar Kolay, BPPIMT | ABHIYANTRAN Report 2023 |
| 10 | DIVYANTRA – The Robotics Club Inauguration | 7th October, 2023 | 55 | ||
| 11 | Microsoft Azure Fundamentals | 13th October, 2023 | 77 | ||
| 12 | Website Launch | 25th November, 2023 | 33 | ||
| 13 | Solution Challenge BPPIMT | 27th December, 2023 | 147 | ||
| 14 | Android Talk | 30th December, 2023 | 45 | ||
| 15 | Glimpse of Advancement | 18th January, 2024 | 77 | ||
| 16 | The Power of Unity in Game Development | 28th January, 2024 | 32 | ||
| 17 | TechStorm 2.24 | 3rd & 5th April, 2024 | 245 | Techstorm 2024 | |
| Academic Year 2022-23 | |||||
| 1 | Hackathon – Pre-Winter Coding Contest | 4th November, 2022 | 52 | ||
| 2 | Intro to Google Cloud Career Practitioners | 15th November, 2022 | 72 | ||
| 3 | Info Session – Flutter Forward, Firebase | 11th March, 2023 | 65 | ||
| 4 | Valorant (Online) | 21st March, 2023 | 263 | ||
| 5 | TechStorm 2.23 | 22nd & 23rd March, 2023 | 450 | ||
| 6 | Introduction to Offensive Security | 8th April, 2023 | 64 | ||
| 7 | Introduction to Kubernetes | 8th April, 2023 | 53 | ||
| Academic Year 2021-22 | |||||
| 1 | Smart Coder Challenge 2.22 | 26th March, 2022 | Event Report | ||
| 2 | Hardware Model Design Competition 2.22 | 26th March, 2022 | Event Report | ||
| 3 | Arduino Programming Competition 2.22 | 26th March, 2022 | Event Report | ||
| Academic Year 2020-21 | |||||
| 1 | Webinar on PLC Programming and Python with Robotics | 30th – 31st January, 2021 | Event Report | ||
| 2 | Hardware Model Design – JUNO 2.21 | 30th – 31st January, 2021 | Event Report | ||
| 3 | Arduino Programming – FORMA 2.21 | 30th – 31st January, 2021 | Event Report | ||
| 4 | Online Inter-College Coding Competition – Smart Coders Challenge 2.20 | 20th December, 2020 | Event Report | ||
| 5 | 3-Day Web Workshop on Android Application Development in collaboration with Ardent Computech Pvt. Ltd. | 4th – 6th August, 2020 | Event Report | ||
| 6 | Inauguration of Developer Student Club (DSC) BPPIMT under Google Developer Technologies | 26th September, 2020 | |||
| 7 | Git and GitHub | 4th October, 2020 | |||
| 8 | 30 Days of Google Cloud | 15th October – 5th November, 2020 | |||
| 9 | Android Study Jam | 30th November, 2020 – 25th January, 2021 | |||
| 10 | Career Beyond Academics | 7th December, 2020 | |||
| 11 | DSC WOW – DSC India Collaboration | 7th – 14th December, 2020 | |||
| 12 | 30 Days of Web Development | 21st December, 2020 – 21st January, 2021 | |||
| 13 | Hash Code | 25th February, 2021 | |||
| Academic Year 2019-20 | |||||
| 1 | Hardware Model Design – JUNO 2.19 | 5th November, 2019 | Event Report | ||
| 2 | Arduino Programming – FORMA 2.19 | 5th November, 2019 | Event Report | ||
| 3 | Smart Coder Challenge 2.19 | 6th November, 2019 | Event Report | ||
| 4 | TechStorm 2.19 | 15th & 16th March, 2019 | Event Report | ||
| Academic Year 2018-19 | |||||
| 1 | TechStorm 2.18 | 12th & 13th April, 2018 | |||
| 2 | Hardware Model Design – JUNO 2.18 | ||||
| 3 | Arduino Programming – FORMA 2.18 | ||||
| 4 | Smart Coder Challenge 2.18 | ||||
| 5 | Smart India Hackathon 2018, Govt. of India, Panipat | 31st March, 2018 | |||
| 6 | Techniche 2017, IIT Guwahati | 9th July, 2017 | |||
| 7 | INSTRUO 2017, IIEST Shibpur | 13th – 15th October, 2017 | |||
| Academic Year 2017-18 | |||||
| 1 | Hardware Model Design – JUNO 2.17 | 20th September, 2017 | Event Report | ||
| 2 | Arduino Programming – FORMA 2.17 | 20th September, 2017 | Event Report | ||
| 3 | Smart Coder Challenge 2.17 | 13th September, 2017 | Event Report | ||
| 4 | TechStorm 2.17 | Event Report | |||
| Academic Year 2016-17 | |||||
| 1 | Hardware Model Design – JUNO 2.16 | 29th September & 1st October, 2016 | Event Report | ||
| 2 | Arduino Programming – FORMA 2.16 | 1st October, 2016 | |||
| 3 | Smart Coder Challenge 2.16 | ||||
| 4 | TechStorm 2.16 | ||||
| Academic Year 2015-16 | |||||
| 1 | Hardware Model Design – JUNO 2.15 | ||||
| 2 | Arduino Programming – FORMA 2.15 | ||||
| 3 | Smart Coder Challenge 2.15 | ||||
| 4 | TechStorm 2.15 | Event Report | |||
Clubs
Google Developer Student Club (GDSC)
Google Developer Student Club (GDSC) has been initiated by Google developer technologies on Sep 26, 2020. Google Developer Student Club (GDSC) are university based community groups for students interested in Google developer technologies. This community conduct webinars, hands-on workshops, tutorials, informative talks and more to engage with the audience and grow the community at large. To connect with GDSC and help to promote the peer-to-peer learning culture.
Robotics club-DIVYANTRA
Abhiyantran – The Technical Forum of B. P. Poddar Institute of Management & Technology, Kolkata inaugurated the institute Robotics club-DIVYANTRA on 7th October, 2023 at Seminar hall. Divyantra is a platform where passionate minds converge, share ideas, and work together to turn their visions into reality. It is a space where the students nurture their creativity, cultivate technical skills, and foster a spirit of teamwork. The club organize workshops, competitions, and events that not only challenge the intellect of the young minds but also ignite the passion for robotics. This robotics club pledge to use the knowledge and skills for the betterment of humanity, to tackle challenges in healthcare, environment, and beyond.