Event Descriptions

The following is a list of non-kernel events. For kernel events, please visit: https://epcbits.wordpress.com/2018/02/10/kernel-events/

Civil:

• Krazybridge: This event looks for innovative designs of a bridge – built from scrap – over an obstacle to maximise strength and efficiency.
• Roller Coaster: This event requires participants to design a marble roller coaster with the longest running time. The model must have a loop, a turn and a jump, with additional points for creativity and complexity.
• Anti-coding: A competitive coding event, Anti-coding puts a spin on the format by formulating additional constraints, such as to write code without using a ‘while loop’.
• CDoku: Participants are required to solve C/C++ puzzles, to discover numbers for solving the given Sudoku puzzle.
• Code Relay: Code Relay is a way to test coordination and coding skills. A team of 2 works on separate problems without communicating, only for them to swap places and continue where the other left off when the buzzer rings. This relay goes on until all questions are done or time runs out.
• Hackathon: Sponsored by ExxonMobil, this Hackathon will require a Machine Learning based solution to a relatable problem statement – with ₹80000 on offer for winners.
• Microsoft Azure ML Flight Prediction: This is an event based on machine learning, with the objective of creating the most efficient algorithms for the given problem. 

Electronics and Robotics:

• Arduinix: Arduinix required participants to write Arduino code to solve the maze. Bots to work with will be provided.
• Circuit Design Challenge: This event, which has witnessed great participation in the past, is related to the application of concepts from Digital Design.
• Hackatronics: A design-type problem statement will be provided, and participants must try to use what they are given to try to solve the problem. The event has two rounds – a qualifying round and a final round.
• Hack-a-date: A quizzing event where you only score points if both teammates are in sync.
• Robosoccer: Participants need to design an autonomous or remote-controlled robot which can play soccer by complying to some basic rules.
• Trackomania: In this event, participants are required to make a line-following bot that competes against other bots. Two rounds of competition will judge the robot’s speed, control and distance covered.

Mechanical:

• Junkyard Wars: A true test of your IC engine knowledge and problem-solving capabilities, this event requires participants to make a vehicle out of junk according to the problem statement.

Mechatronics:

• Airborne: Participants are required to design the toughest and fastest remote-controlled (RC) hovercraft. Endurance and Speed are key here.
• Battle of Waterloo: Named after the famous battle between Napoleon and the Iron Duke, the Battle of Waterloo is a race of radio-controlled boats in the waters of the BITS Museum pool.
• Water rocketry: This event requires participants to design and launch a water rocket as far as they can.

Quizzing:

• 42: This Astronomy and Astrophysics quiz has risen to command the attention of passionate quizzers, over several years of excellent quizzes. It will be held over two rounds, and will require a deep understanding of astronomy and related fields.
• Biz Quiz: A business themed quiz hosted by Kushan Patel, with attractive cash prizes and highly competitive quizzers on offer.
• Brain of BITS (BoB): A general quiz for the coveted title of “Brain of BITS”, hosted by last year’s winner Mustansir Mama. Only BITSians may participate in this lone-wolf quiz.
• Doper’s Quiz: An offline quiz in which the questions will be related to narcotics.
• India Quiz: An India-themed quiz hosted by Major Chandrakant Nair.
• MELA Quiz: Hosted by Samksha Bhardwaj, this quiz is about Movies, Entertainment, Literature, and Art.
• Overhead Transmission: A general quiz which tests lateral thinking abilities along with general knowledge. This event is hosted by Major Chandrakant Nair.
• Sci-Tech Quiz: A science and technology themed quiz, to be hosted by Kushan Patel.

Sciences:

• ChemWars: This is a three-round quizzing event. In the first round, participants will be given riddles based on their knowledge of chemicals, after which they will be given credits based on their score. They can then use these credits to bid on reagents that help create the given reaction. In the final round, players will have to solve some chemistry-based practical questions.
• Dexter’s Laboratory: This event will have players deconstructing one of the inventions of the titular character from the cartoon, through a quizzing component, and later, a laboratory session. It will be conducted jointly by the Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, and Biology Associations.
• Gambling Mathematics: An event fusing technology with the thrill of gambling. 
• Strategia: This is a case-study competition with two rounds – the first requiring the preparation of an estimate, following which a solution-based case-study is presented.
• Unravel: This event is divided into two rounds: Round 1 consisting of 30 general-biology multiple-choice questions, and Round 2, where winners from Round 1 are required to solve real-world issues.
• Who Dunn It: This is a murder-mystery quiz. After the elimination round – featuring aptitude questions – six teams with three members each will be given a murder-mystery. Points will be awarded for solving each clue, and the team with the highest points will win.
• Zombie Mathematics: Players will try to block their opponent’s path on a grid by solving questions in the cells surrounding the opponent. This 1v1 game will be held in IPC.

Miscellaneous:

• Aarohan: A nationwide, theme-based exam for senior-secondary school students, Round 1 of Aarohan had been conducted with excellent participation from schools across the nation. Round 2 will be conducted during APOGEE, with toppers of the first round winning an all-expenses-paid stay at BITS to participate in and witness the fest.
• BattleBAE: An action-packed game developed on the Unity software platform, BattleBAE requires participants to be wily and double-crossing. Be the last man standing, in the cold and harsh environment of Alpha Zetauri 3.
• Bob the Builder: Participants are required to build a structure from diverse materials such as dominoes, PVC pipes, and marbles, which will be provided to them. The structure will be judged on creativity and how closely it adheres to the competition design, among other parameters.
• Checkmate: Checkmate is a variant of the classic game Minesweeper, with engaging logical questions which pop up from the boxes along with bombs. It promises to be fun-filled, with every answer a piece of a puzzle to be put together.
• CrAC Galleria: Artworks by members of the club and open BITSian entries will be displayed, along with structures related to the theme of the fest. 
• Defrag: Defrag is a series of lectures by renowned computer scientists. This year’s line-up includes scientists like David Stork, who has more than 40 patents to his name, and Neena Gupta, the first person to solve a 70-year-old mathematical problem.
• Everyone Dies: This literary event will evoke contestants’ reverse-engineering skills, for a non-traditional cause; to plot the end of the world. Each team will be given a list of objects with some cost associated with each object.  They will then have to use these objects to create a chain of scientifically plausible events that lead to destruction of life on Earth.
• Goodbye Earth: Participants here are required to plot the conditions for colonizing a different planet. This event will consist of three rounds – the Resource Round, Portfolio Round, and Prototype Round.
• I-Report: This event requires participants to submit video reports on an event of their choice.
• Join and win: An online event with questions based on the events happening in APOGEE.
• Media Mania: This is a ten-round quiz with media-related questions.
• Mindkraft: A quiz-like event which tests creativity and lateral thinking abilities.
• Mushayra: This event features renowned Hindi poets, Balmohan Pandey and Prabhat Chaturvedi, who will recite poems for forty-five minutes each.
• Night’s Watch: Night’s Watch is a two-night event organised by the Astro Club, BITS Pilani. Visitors will get the unique opportunity to view several celestial objects including Jupiter, the Moon, the Orion nebula, star clusters and coloured star systems through telescopes and binoculars.
• Pictionary: Pictionary is the classic word-guessing game, but the twist of having to use Virtual Reality. A creative mind is required, to get your teammates to recognise the word by animating it on a drawing app.
• Polysis: This event requires participants in teams of 2-4 to present perspectives on any one of Agriculture Policy, Triple Talaq, or FDI Policy. The winners will then be asked to provide their views on a topic given a week in advance, for the final round.
• Qrious: An online quizzing event based on the theme.
• Raze and Rise: This is a logic-based quizzing event with a requirement of knowledge in finance. Teams will need to solve a crossword in the prelims, followed by a final round where each team will receive virtual cash to trade commodities. The team with the highest net worth at the end, wins.
• Relay Dumb Charades: Participants need to convey popular dialogues, movies, and scenes to their teammates by enacting them. Team chemistry is fundamental to win this one.
• Reprise: Gurukul will perform a mix of English, Hindi and Instrumental songs at Rotunda on the 23rd.
• Taboo: A game in which players have their partners guess the word on the taboo card without using the word itself or five additional “taboo” words listed on the card. 
• Tech Aahvan: This is a debating event based on technological issues.
• Wheel of Fortune: A variant of the famous game which combines the play of chance with general knowledge and knowledge of pop culture.