Co/Extra Curricular Activities

FUSION is a multi-talented quest, a combined event that aims to promote healthy cooperation between colleges through unique competition that includes traditional day, business quiz, Ad-Mad, Best out of the west, LAN games, fashion show, and other unexplored adventures. FUSION gives an opportunity for students to participate, play and perform together and learn about each other.

Dr. D. Y. Patil Institute of Management Studies (DYPIMS), Akurdi, Pune has organized a 3-day annual cultural and professional fest of DYPIMS i.e. Fusion-2018.

We had organized our annual cultural fest ‘FUSION’ from 8th- 10th March 2018. In this fest, our major activities include Traditional day, Management Poster Competition, E-Bazaar, Intercollegiate events and Cultural Night.

The events organized in Fusion-2018 include Management Poster Competition, intercollegiate events like Business Quiz, Ad-Mad Show, Antakshari, Entrepreneurship Bazaar, Best out of Waste, etc.

MANAGEMENT POSTER COMPETITION

Dr. D. Y. Patil Institute of Management Studies (DYPIMS) organizes Management Poster Competition since 2012. To enhance the creativity and imagination of management students by giving them an opportunity to think beyond books. Hands painting on management related themes are created by five MBA II year students along with the expertise of fine arts students under the leadership and guidance of industrial representative and faculty & staff.

The event is the perfect catalyst for cross-pollination of ideas and apt training ground for cross-functional training among students. Through the activity, a perfect blend of ingenuity and attitude of each team was exhibited.
Management Poster competition organized by DYPIMS receives laurels and appreciation from corporate academia.The value of a poster is further augmented by shaping all of them in the form of a calendar.

The main objectives of the Poster competition are:

1. To establish a common platform where students from different competencies perform a collaborative act under the guidance of a Senior corporate person, Principal from graduate/undergraduate College, a Fine Arts student and a faculty member/staff of DYPIMS.

2. To augment creativity, imagination, and innovativeness in the minds of aspiring managers.

3. To make the students more resourceful and ingenious by giving them an opportunity to think beyond their books.

On second day of Fusion, DYPIMS organizes Management Poster Competition in the post-lunch session. On this occasion, corporate personnel from different industries and fine Art Students are being an integral part of 12-15 teams. Each team constituted students from DYPIMS, corporate invite/s, a faculty from DYPIMS and Fine Arts Students.

The poster competition focuses on clarity of thought, the importance of teamwork, principles of management, creativity, brainstorming, and effective communication. All the corporate members enthusiastically participate in the event. At the end of the day judges evaluate management poster made by the students based on Aesthetics of Display, Poster Design,presentation skills, and Relevance to management concepts.

Further, these posters will be converted to an annual calendar of DYPIMS which will include all the posters in each month of the calendar based on the order of their ranking.

Sports teach discipline to students. It also develops the spirit of sportsmanship and players derive a lot of pleasure by playing games. It also inculcates the quality of team spirit in them. The students learn the qualities of leadership and team work while participating in the sport events. Dr. D. Y. Patil Institute of Management Studies, Akurdi, Pune had organized CRESCENDO�- an inter-college championship of indoor games -Chess, Table Tennis, Badminton, and Carrom. Badminton was introduced the first time in Crescendo. The event was organized on 21st and 22nd February 2016 at our esteemed Institute. It was a fun-filled event and everyone was excited & energetic.

There were 8 colleges and 3 corporate from Pune who had participated in various events. The events started at 10 am sharp and got over by 4:30 pm the next day. The competitors performed to exceptionally high standards in all events. The players sprinted their way around the track, even in the longer distances and left us all astounded with their prowess. A large number of students who were competing as well as the spectators thoroughly enjoyed their afternoon.

We thank all the teams for their active participation. We had students coming from Ness Wadia College, Singhad Institute of Management studies, Dr. D. Y. Patil Institute of Management Studies, D.Y.Patil College of Engineering, SIBM, D.Y.Patil College of Arts & Commerce, Indira Business School and NBN, Singhad. Players from corporate (Tata Motors, Tata Teleservices and Talentica Software Private Ltd.) also participated in the event. The players showed their tremendous stamina, energy and performed extremely well and broke previously held records. The winner of the Table Tennis events was Mr. Indrajeet Singh from Ness Wadia College and the runner-up was Mr. Saransh from the same college. The Winner of the Chess event was Mr. Dibas Biswas, an alumnus of DYPIMS, currently working for Talentica Software Private Ltd and the runner-up was Mr. chittari Abhishek from SIBM. The winner of the carom event was Mr. Akshaya Pradhan from NBM, Singhad and the runner-up was Mr. Usman Khan from the DYPCOE. Badminton (singles) was won by Mr. Chetan Pandey of Tata Motors and the runner up was Mr. Ashish Damodar of DYPIMS. The winner of Badminton (Doubles) was Mr. Ashish Damodhar and Mr. DebojyothiDey and the runner up was Mr. sudharsan and Mr. Farahan khan of Ness Wadia College.

This student-oriented program wouldn�t be complete without the coordination, commitment, and enthusiasm shown by everyone. The collective intake of the audience and the outburst of cheers were amongst the best feelings one could ever hope to experience on such a day. It seemed that the students were thoroughly enjoying themselves. Everyone had a role to play. The whole day was amazingly harmonized with students stepping out to cheer their classmates and friends. No one stood in the center of the field on that day; one would be startled with the activity and regular cheers erupting from different corners of the field. Crowd-managers and faculties were all doing their jobs flawlessly.

Once again this year, the youth of Dr. D. Y. Patil Institute of Management Studies, Akurdi had performed tremendously well. We affirm our faith in learning through this sports meet. Organizing various events helps us to reaffirm our team spirit and cooperation thus providing an experiential learning platform to our students.