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Manifesto: Tinkerers' Laboratory

Anirudh Mittal proposes initiatives if elected as GSTA including developing hobby clubs, promoting innovation at the Tinkerers' Lab, and supporting impactful student projects. Key plans are expanding digital resources and facilities at the Tinkerers' Lab, incentivizing technical projects and teams, coordinating technical clubs, and increasing outreach through videos and social media.

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Manifesto: Tinkerers' Laboratory

Anirudh Mittal proposes initiatives if elected as GSTA including developing hobby clubs, promoting innovation at the Tinkerers' Lab, and supporting impactful student projects. Key plans are expanding digital resources and facilities at the Tinkerers' Lab, incentivizing technical projects and teams, coordinating technical clubs, and increasing outreach through videos and social media.

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MANIFESTO

I, Anirudh Mittal (170020057), if elected as General Secretary of Technical Affairs (GSTA),


will strive to develop communities around hobby clubs, make the Tinkerers’ Lab a centre for
innovation and promote projects having a strong impact on the student community.
I propose to do the following.

TINKERERS’ LABORATORY
• Promote further digitalization of TL:
❖ Entry System: Installation of a biometric system to track the usage of the lab; to provide
insights to administration by analyzing the collected data
❖ Issuing System: Issuing TL equipment without submission of ID cards using roll no.
❖ Inventory Management: Tagging equipment using bar codes / RFID tags and
maintaining a concise database that will be available online
• Revamp the look and feel of the second phase of TL and establishing a ‘Thinking Corner’ with
coffee machine, bean bags and whiteboards, making it more hospitable for users
• Incentivize students who complete training sessions by providing restricted access to machines

TECHNICAL PROJECTS
• Sophie Startup: Restructuring Technovation by specifically targeting sophomores to promote
technopreneurship with a timeline similar to ITSP in collaboration with the entrepreneurship cell
• Collaborate with the BETiC Lab for projects during ITSP and semester-long projects
• Float industry projects among students with the help of alumni startups and IITB Research
Park, especially during the winter break, providing hands-on experience on real-life projects
• Maintain an online tagged repository with ITSP, SoC and SoS documentations across years
• Prepare an exhaustive database of technical facilities available in the institute and make these
facilities available for students at subsidized prices or free of cost
• Consolidating a database of vendors in and around the city for facilities like PCB printing, etc.
• Organizing field visits to manufacturing centers to expose students to large scale production

TECH TEAMS
• Provide funding opportunities for tech teams from companies hosted in the IITB Research Park
• Tech team workshops: Conduct workshops to publicize area of expertise of teams, which
further may be leveraged for their recruitment process
• Developing websites for new tech teams and updating existing websites of old tech teams by
providing standard templates with the help of the web nominee

INSTITUTE DEVELOPERS’ COMMUNITY


• InstiApp: Add features like course scheduler and cab sharing to InstiApp along with DevCom
• Coordinate with academic and hostel affairs council to facilitate the working of DevCom on
projects like CourseRank, resume verification portal, canteen remote payment, etc.
• Initiate hardware projects that can be deployed in the institute like vacancy counter, etc.
TECHNICAL CLUBS
• Initiate a centralized book lending system for books from all technical clubs
• Chemistry Club: Maintain an inventory and set up a managerial council for the club
• Involve hostel tech secretaries in convener training spread across multiple technical clubs
• Coordinate with other IITs to host pan-IIT competitions for competitive coding & cyber security

INTER IIT TECH MEET


• Tech Schools: Expanding the Inter IIT boot camps to span a longer duration and covering in-
depth knowledge of recurrent problem statements, aiding the process of contingent selection
• Pseudo Inter IIT Team: Formation of a team comprising previous meets’ participants,
contingent leaders and various seniors for planning and contingent selection for the meet
• But what exactly happens in Inter IIT Tech Meet?: Make short videos for problem statements

PG TECH
• PG Tech Orientation: Conducting an orientation briefing students about tech events and
facilities available for PG students, especially resources available in the Tinkerers’ Laboratory
• PG Tech weekend: Conducting events comprising six-hour hackathons, lab visits and fun events
• Collaborate with PG academic council to conduct workshops on technical software and skills
• Revive the tradition of including PG students in the council to increase reach in the community

TECH GCs AND HOSTEL TECH CULTURE


• Expanding the documentation GC by evaluating tech rooms at regular intervals and
incentivizing user-friendliness and issuing process to promote usage
• Hostel Tech Expo: Presenting technical projects made by residents during hostel fests
• Conduct weekly movie and documentary screenings & ensure availability of science and
technology magazines, journals and comics in hostel common rooms

PUBLICITY AND OUTREACH


• One minute series: Creating short and engaging videos with the media team to promote tech
team recruitment, flagship events & Inter-IIT Tech Meet on various social platforms
• Coordinate with IIT-BBC for the coverage of major events and competitions around the year
• Reddit: Leveraging the IIT Bombay thread to provide a platform for tech-related doubt solving
• Publicize ‘Made In TL’ brand in the institute through social media and other platforms

MISCELLANEOUS
• ITSP reimbursement: Creating a portal to make the process transparent for participants
• Tech Vouchers: Promote purchasing of tech equipment as prizes for competitions
• Follow up on converting the STAB Room into a meeting, discussion and storage space
• Institute Technical Mentorship Program: Allot mentors to freshmen to create awareness

CREDENTIALS
• Institute Electronics & Robotics Secretary [2019-20]
• Bronze medal, 8th Inter IIT Tech Meet [2019-20]
• DAMP Mentor, Chemical Engineering Department [2019-20]
• Convener, Electronics & Robotics Club [2018-19]

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