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New Horizon College of Engineering, Department of Management Studies, in collaboration with Entrepreneurship Development Cell organised “E-WEEK” from 23rd October to 28th October 2017. NH-EDC assist the students and institutes’ faculty to solve commercialization issues and aims to provide exposure to our students and the team constantly work on finding creative events and competitions to ensure all the aspiring entrepreneurs are exposed to opportunities and much more, and one such event organised by ED Cell is “E-WEEK”.
E-WEEK was 6 days entrepreneurship festival which mainly focused on creating awareness among the students and also generating ideas for start-ups.
EVENTS:
DAY-1 & DAY-2 (23rd Oct – 24th Oct) E-JAAGURTHI (EMPOWERING YOUTH)
The programme was conducted for two days on 23rd and 24th. The aim was to spread the awareness of entrepreneurship development and reach government school students. The students were divided into groups to visit schools and colleges to spread the awareness, it was a good interacting session among , where the students made them understand about the importance of entrepreneurship through their motivational speeches and also made it more lively by doing some activities. In two days the students visited 10 different schools in areas like Kudulu gate, Bommasandra, etc

DAY-3 (25th Oct) E-BAATCHEET (E-TALK) & E-TALAASH (E-HUNT):
In E- talk young entrepreneurs were invited from different sectors to share their experience with the students. It was a round table discussion. Budding entrepreneur like Mr Shaswath Swaroop founder of a technology based start-up and Ashok Kumar founder of my dream garden were the speakers for the day. It was 3 hours session were the students received various inputs from the entrepreneurs.
Followed by E-Baatcheet there was live contest in New Horizon campus. The participants were hunted and were tested on their entrepreneur knowledge.

DAY-4 (26th Oct) E-DANGAL (RUBIX):
On day four, 5 different competitions were organised. These competitions were running simultaneously. The event had a good response with close to 200 participants coming from various colleges in Bangalore. The main objective of the event was to motivate the students to consider entrepreneurship as an option against jobs. The first prize was awarded with the cash of Rs2000/-. It was an exhaustive one day programme with lot of learning and encouragement

DAY-5 (27th Oct) E-UDHYOG (I EXPO):
The 5th day started with thought provoking talk by eminent entrepreneurs. Intellectual personality like Mr Pranav Jha, Nodal Manager (Karnataka) Prime Minister Yuva Yojana, Ms Harmeet Kaur Bajaj, Founder and CEO of Fermata Ventures, Mr Gourav Singh, NEN wad, Ms Pooja Bajaj, Founder and CEO of Soulblaze and Ms Syamili Syam is Alumni NHCE and Business Analyst and Agile Process Specialist for Philips Ltd. at Wipro Technologies. The session continued with the presentation of student’s live projects and start-up ideas. The idea behind E-Udhyog was to inculcate the spark in the students to start their enterprises and support the country.

E-WALKATHON
NHCE organised a Walkathon for the social cause of women empowerment and it was inspired by PM’s initiate of “BETI BACHAO, BETI PADHAO”. There were 400 participants from the college. The students started walking from Mysore Bank circle to Freedom Park holding plug cards and shouting the slogan “Beti bachao, beti padhao and save the girl child”. This occasion was graced by eminent personalities like Dr. Kalpana Gopalan IAS, Department of Additional Chief Secretary, Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms (AR, Training and Poltical Pension), Govt. of Karnataka, Ms Rapid Rashmi, RJ Big FM, Ms Pooja Upendra, Namma Radio and Ms Vaibhavi, Member of AWAKE. Students presented a street play to show the importance of women empowerment.