{"id":579,"date":"2013-11-12T19:06:34","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T13:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/?p=579"},"modified":"2013-11-12T19:06:34","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T13:36:34","slug":"corporate-mind-games-iit-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/corporate-mind-games-iit-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporate Mind Games IIT-style!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/elephant.gif\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-584\" alt=\"Corporate Mind Games IIT-style!\" src=\"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/elephant.gif\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>New Delhi: <\/b>The Technology Alumni Association (TAA) of <a title=\"Top Engineering Colleges, IIT-Kharagpur\" href=\"http:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/top-engineering-colleges\/iit-kharagpur\/\">IIT Kharagpur <\/a>recently organised the second edition of their interesting Olympics for corporate intellectuals \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 Mind Trigger \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 this year. Inspired by the institute\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s annual cultural fest called Spring Fest, Mind Trigger was well-organised but fun and informal in nature.<\/p>\n<p>Infosys team emerged as the \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00cb\u0153winner\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 of the fest and bagged the trophy and the cash prize of Rs 1 lakh. Team from IIM Bangalore was the runners up. Other teams that participated in the fest included those from Yahoo!, Deutsche Bank, SAP, Sungard, 2AdPro, Capillary Technologies, and Affine Analytics.<\/p>\n<p>The events organised in the fest included Potpurri, a mixed bag competition with four to five different games; Cryptic Crossword, where teams had to crack clues and get at the correct word; Armchair Treasure Hunt, where clues were hidden in the books given to participants; Strategize where participants had to find solutions to real-life problems; the Whiz Quiz which included questions from English, History, Politics, Technology, Sports, Music and Films and other general-knowledge areas; and the ultimate \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 Spin a Yarn competition, in which teams had to come up with stories beginning with the line given to them.<\/p>\n<p>While some participants found it fun and a good break, some others thought the questions were way harder than what they did in college. But all of them enjoyed the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Technology Alumni Association (TAA) of IIT Kharagpur recently organised the second edition of their interesting Olympics for corporate intellectuals \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 Mind Trigger \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 this year. Inspired by the institute\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s annual cultural fest called Spring Fest, Mind Trigger was well-organised but fun and informal in nature. Infosys team emerged as the \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00cb\u0153winner\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}