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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Commencia  is an entrepreneurship carnival organized for the first time by
Visionate entrepreneurship club of SRM University in association with TiE
and under the guidance of the MBA department.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The word "Commencia" finds its origin from the
French word "commencer" which translates to beginning.
Commencia  intends to foster the idea<br />
of entrepreneurship amongst students and also strives to give a platform
to showcase the initiatives and business models of the<br />
existing start-up communities.</span></div>
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The events for Commencia are as enumerated below :<br />
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(3 day event)<br />
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This is a platform for all the existing start-ups to network and showcase
their idea. Every start-up purchased a stall, and exhibited for 3 days be
for several dignitaries. The best start-up will be awarded with cash
prize .<br />
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<b>START-UP WEEKEND (Game Changers)<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(2 day event)<br />
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This event exposed the participants to a hands-on experience in building a
start-up from scratch, i.e., idea to execution.<br />
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Day 1 included formation of teams and problem description. The teams had
to come up with a solution, prepare a business model and revenue model and
make a presentation in front of the other teams, which also included a
question-answer session, to validate their idea.<br />
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Day 2  tested  the teams on the grounds of marketing and
networking. The teams had to create a facebook page of their idea and get
maximum popularity. They had to exhibit their idea in a mock
start-up expo to a panel of judges.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP (Entrepreneurship Without Border)<br />
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(2 day event)<br />
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This event aims to bring an actual change in a rural area (village)nearby
Chennai, through entrepreneurial thinking and action.<br />
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On Day 1, all the teams met the village womenfolk, talked to
them, interviewed them and understood their lifestyle, income, expenditure
and savings, problems they face, aspirations etc.<br />
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After their research on Day 1, the teams  conducted a class for the
villagers teaching them anything that might solve some of<br />
their problems, add to their marketplace literacy, help them handle money,
run businesses, utilize resources etc.<br /><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">MONOPOLY</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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This event aims to test the business and money handling sense of the<br />
participants through an SRM-customized version of the game, Monopoly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The event was conducted on the same lines as the
original monopoly, the difference being that instead of buying cities,
the players will buy places of importance within SRM like Tech
Park, Library building,  Hi-Tech block, Auditorium, etc. A preset
story-line<br />
 ran and the players obtained their revenue on the basis of
the footfall in the places they own at a particular time in the story.<br />
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<b>QUIZ</b><br />
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(2 day event)<br />
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This event had the structure of any typical quiz, the theme being business
and entrepreneurship.<br />
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Day 1  hosted the preliminary round.<br />
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Day 2  saw the finalists competing in a quiz that tests them on their
knowledge about entrepreneurship, the principles of business and<br />
prominent people and their stories.<br />
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<b>FRANCHISE IT!<br />
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(2 day event)<br />
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This was an event which  tested the marketing strategies and
business tactics of the participants in a very small yet competitive
platform.<br />
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A preliminary round on Day 1 filtered out participants who will be formed
into 4-6 teams. The primary goal of the teams was to set up a store of a
company brand and manage all expenditures in the allotted budget, as per a
contract.<br />
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The teams  bid for the location of their respective stores
(Java, Library, Auditorium, Main Campus, etc).<br />
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They were  provided with a list of quotations for everything,
like Hiring staff (male and female separate quotations).<br />
Products<br />
Social media data entry rates<br />
Advertisements<br />
Add-on (decorations, store name board, charts, direction boards, etc.)<br />
Transportation<br />
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25% shares of every team was liquefied shares (stock market), and every member
of the team was entitled to an equal percentage.<br />
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Day 2 was  the on-field day, when the teams  actually
competed and tested their skills with real crowd.<br />
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</span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">TECHPRENEURSHIP</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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(1 day event)<br />
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The objective of this event was to promote technical solutions
for existing problems, i.e., technical entrepreneurship.<br />
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The first round consisted of a problem given to the participating
teams for which they had to design a technological solution.<br />
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The second round  required them to pitch it in front of a panel of judges
who will test its feasibility and practicality.<br />
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<b>IDEA GENERATION (Connect The Dots)</b><br />
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(2 day event)<br />
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This event  targeted  people who were new to the field
of entrepreneurship and aimed at giving them a basic knowledge about its<br />
principles and the skills required.<br />
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On Day 1 all the participants were formed into teams of 4-5 on the basis
of a questionnaire. All the teams were allocated a similar<br />
amount of virtual funds/resources.<br />
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Next, they were tested on their decision making abilities by
giving them various situations in a paper test and around 20 teams will be<br />
shortlisted.<br />
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On Day 2, a different crisis or problem was described to each team for<br />
which they have to design a solution.<br />
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Next, the elevator pitch in front of a panel of judges.<br />
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<b>SPORTS MANAGEMENT (Dream IPL)</b><br />
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(1 day event, rolling)<br />
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This is an event that tested the skills required to manage a
sports team and required you to bid for a city's franchise and manage it
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">scratch. Each team will be given a large virtual budget for
this.<br />
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The first phase involves bidding for a city which will be the base of the
franchise followed by handpicking a set of players from an<br />
available pool of players. Each team has to comprise 11 players
while satisfying a particular preset criterion. Participating teams have
to<br />
factor in the costs for running the entire sports team and the
revenue from each franchise is through ticketing sales. Criteria for<br />
ascertaining the winner was based on a set of predetermined
statistics about a player and this is applied for the whole team.<br />
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</span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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This event is for all the budding startups and entrepreneurs<br />
participating in a long campaign that involves filling up Google<br />
forms, presenting their ideas in front of a panel of judges.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The first Entrepreneurship Carnival of SRM University, 'Commencia'

ABOUT COMMENCIA Commencia is an entrepreneurship carnival organized for the first time by Visionate entrepreneurship club of SRM Uni...

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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The induction program of Medicine and Health sciences happened at Dr. T. P. Ganesan Auditorium, Kattankulathur on August 16, 2012. Parents and students of all the courses under Medicine and Health sciences turned out in considerable number to attend the inaugural function. The program began with the invocation song followed by kuthuvilaku lighting by the guests.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Dr. James Pandian, Dean, Medicine, in his visual presentation, gave a glimpse of SRM Medical College Hospital and Research Centre. The dean also said that SRM group is going to come up with a multi-specialty hospital at Vadapalani in Chennai which would house eminent physicians with respect to each field. He also explained all the facilities available at SRM University and MoU signed with the foreign university.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Dr. M. Ponnavaiko, the Vice Chancellor, SRM University delivered the presidential address. He highlighted the milestones of SRM Medical College Hospital and Research Centre. He told the parents to be rest assured about the future of their wards for they are in the best hands. He impressed the audience by stating many anecdotes from his real life.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Dr. N. Chandraprabha, Director, Health Sciences introduced the Deans, Vice Principals and Head of the Departments of Health Sciences. She read out the brief profile of various faculty members and she advised the new entrants to make use of the stay at campus and to progress in their future.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Dr. Gireesh, Deputy Dean and Vice Principal of SRM Medical College Hospital and Research Centre congratulated the medical aspirants for choosing SRM. He said that there is huge demand for doctors in India for the ratio of doctors to patients is too less when compared to western countries. Dr. Murukesan, Associate Dean, Dental College then introduced the head of the departments of the dental college.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Dr. B. Mohan, Professor of Conservative Dentistry and Dr. V. Vidyashree Nandhini, Professor of Prosthodontics explained the laurels won by the dental college for the academic year 2011-2012. The parents were then called on to the dais to share their feedback.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Mr. Santhanam, Father of BDS student, Ms. Akshaya said that he has not seen a huge auditorium and an audience before and he thanked the organizers of the program for giving an opportunity to talk in front of such a learned group. He also expressed his interest that his daughter should join SRM University as a teacher once she finishes her education.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Induction Program - Medicine and Health Sciences

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men - Cicero The induction program of Medicine and Health sci...