Quark

Quark 2011 is BITS Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus' International Techno-Management and Innovation Festival. It is scheduled to be held from 3rd-6th February, 2011.

Since its inception in 2006, Quark has shown unprecedented growth evolving from an intra-college festival to one of the biggest technical and innovation festivals in the country. The 2011 edition of the festival promises to be one of the biggest ever seen in the history of the BITS Pilani institute, and certainly the biggest innovation festival India has ever witnessed.

The predecessors of Quark have successfully shown India a whole new side of technical and scientific thought process and innovation never seen before in the country.

Quark 2010 Lookbacks:

• Guest Lectures by Nobel laureates - Sir Harry Kroto and Prof. Douglas Osheroff.
• Guest Lecture by delegates from Mozilla Foundation, who are scheduled to visit India for the first time.
• Presentation by Mr. Chris Csikszentmihalyi, Research Director, Computing Culture Group - MIT Media Lab.
• Exhibitions from Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO), Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), aimed to focus on present research and development areas of science and technology
• Graviton - Workshop Series: An off Campus platform, which aims at spreading the enthusiasm of Science and Technology throughout India by organizing variety of workshops with focus on imbibing spirit of innovation among the student community. Presently, under this initiative, we are conducting Robotics, Aerodynamics and Ethical Hacking workshops in more than 17 cities across India.
• BITSMUN : BITS Model United Nations, where students from schools and colleges from all over India get together and discuss about global issues, and come up with solutions to the present global problems under the General Assembly, Security Council and Eco-Soc Council.
• WiCamp Seminar: Seminar organized together by Wipro and Quark to bring together students, academicians, innovators, engineers and industries from all over India to share and present their views, ideas, projects and works on different topics related to science, technology and management.
• 37 Events and 8 Categories viz. ChemiQ (Chemical Engineering), MecQ (Mechanical Engineering), Corporate (Economics,Finance and Management), RobotiQ (Robotics),ElectriQ (Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation), Programmers InQ (Computer Science & Information Systems), ScientifiQ (Pure Sciences) and UniQ (Specials)

Quark is the annual techno-management and innovation festival held in and by BITS Pilani, Goa campus. The objective of Quark is to provide a platform for the best minds in the country to showcase their talent and ingenuity. It aims at providing a platform for students from different disciplines to come together and share their enthusiasm & love for science, technology, management & the humanities.