This year IRIS, our very own Management and Cultural fest, incorporated a number of off-beat events into the mainstream, from de-mystifying mind mapping tools to playing poker with prudence, from envisaging social entrepreneurship to laughing out loud with stand-up comedy, IRIS’15 had it all. Let us take a sneak-peek into some of our unique events.
Kalpavriksha
Making its big debut with humble origins and mammoth seed funding, Kalpavriksha certainly was the cynosure at IRIS 2015. The social B-Plan competition powered by Sir Dorabji Tata Trust funded INR5 lacs to the most innovative, implementable and impact driven idea. The event reflected the wave of growing social responsibility and witnessed social enterprises from all over India, pitch their idea for change. ‘Help Us Green’ a social enterprise based out of Kanpur that preserves rivers around Kanpur by recycling waste from places of worship into reusable green lifestyle products were adjudged winners.
Ashwamedha
Traditionally, the most coveted event at IRIS, Ashwamedha was won by Matthews Matthews (hearty congratulations). The final round witnessed 3 potential leaders who could foster the future, face probably the most grappling and nerve wreaking interviews of their lives with a theatrical element of the spot light on . The judges impulsively pulled off crowd winners with witty wordplay and provoking political power play, keeping the audience and contestants gripped to seats. To those who seek to conquer Ashwamedha next year, here’s a tip, know thy constituency.
Poker Nights
The Online-gaming partner of IRIS 2015, www.spartanpoker.com, kept night life glowing, turning students into gamblers. While the gamblers dilemma being sleep v/s poker play, the latter took precedence over the prior. Spartan Poker, with no real cash, engaged students till early dawn simulating Mess 1 as Monte Carlo, with calls, folds and an infrequent straight that won it all.Spartan Poker clearly made its returns on investments (sponsorship) by creating learning experiences in poker, a new found love for many and were generous enough to give redemption vouchers worth INR500 and goodies to join their digital platform. For the pros, this event suddenly turned Planet-I into paradise, while for the amateurs all-in was the ideal route out.
Salsa Workshop
The Salsa workshop organized by Bazinga let the Latina in you come alive. While keeping up with the beats, memorizing steps and most importantly synchronizing movements,this workshop integrated music and (e)motion. With the tempo of music rising, hand-eye and probably foot coordination deteriorating, there was laughter in the air if not in-sync rhythm. The participants thoroughly enjoyed themselves, in a mildly embarrassing yet dance-enriching experience. Let’s hope that the next time the title track of Bang Bang plays, the participants put on their dancing shoes and get grooving.
TVF
The most anticipated event, was the Pitchers preachers, The Viral Fever. This crowd puller and ‘bookmyshow’ publicized event partly fulfilled the humor quotient at planet-I. While the expectations were jovially high, their performance undoubtedly let laughter loose, however TVF didn’t do their pre-reads well as they visibly lacked preparation on the ‘newness’ quotient.Rummaging between rowdies and repeats, there was too much Q-tiyapa. Those who hadn’t already seen it all, got their money’s worth. While those who had seen it all, can now flaunt the fact that they’ve seen it all…live.
Records broken
This year, there were no Guinness World Records in the making, The IRIS MEDIA team and the Coordinators did an outstanding job on social media platforms, with a 100% response rate and 2 hour response time, they managed to reach out to 132,313 people on Facebook and it’s still counting. While on campus a flooded mailbox, over the last two weeks was courtesy IRIS. Their sincere apologies but all they intended to do was to save some paper.
Management Canvas 