Somaiya Vidyavihar launches Vigyan Yagnya 2013 - A mega Science and Technology fair for school, college and engineering students

Somaiya Vidyavihar launches Vigyan Yagnya 2013

- A mega Science and Technology fair for school, college and engineering students

Mumbai: 10th December, 2013 ; K J Somaiya college of science and commerce, an autonomous institution affiliated to the University of Mumbai in sprawling campus of educational institutions of Somaiya Vidyavihar hosted a mega science and technology fair in Mumbai between 10^th and 12^th Dec, that kick-started today witnessed more than 50,000 students on its launch itself that exhibited more than 125 projects from all the enterprising students of Somaiya Vidyavihar .Vigyan Yagnya, the fair will showcase exhibition-cum-competitions of working models in science and technology for students from 11th to 12th, Undergraduate & Post Graduate Science students and Engineering and Polytechnic students.

The motto of the mega Science and Technology fair is “Inspire, Invent and Innovate.”The fair will continue on the 11^th and 12^th of December thus providing a good platform to encourage young minds who have an interest in science to explore, attain greater knowledge and learn.

The fair witnessed very interesting projects this year by the talented students, one such project was the ALCOHOL DETECTOR the main aim of this embedded application is to detect the alcohol drunken people. An embedded kit which will be placed in a vehicle, which will be under the control of the kit .If any drunken person enter in to the vehicle it gives a buzzer sound immediately , and the car will be under the control of the hardware used. Another highlight for the fair was a remarkable project that attracted maximum eye balls was “ Quad rotor which ” are a new breed of aerial vehicles that are now taking there early footsteps in world of aerial vehicles, these have stood apart from other aircrafts for their highly flexible capabilities to move around in air, they can move around in any plane of a 3D space, they have capabilities to switch their direction and regulate speed which is incomparable to any other aerial vehicles. Quads are highly used to for aerial survey and high peak weather monitoring applications, quads can fly a heights around 300mt fighting winds and atmospheric pressure.