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Sparsh Chennai schedule is up. Please go through the 'Sparsh Chennai' section below

Shaastra Sparsh is one of the many new initiatives taken up by the Shaastra team in the Golden Jubilee year of IIT Madras. Sparsh, as the name suggests, is an effort to bring Shaastra closer to your home to enable budding engineers in the locality to take part in the competitions without even having to travel to Chennai. Through Sparsh, Shaastra attempts to reach out and conduct various competitions and workshops in your locality. However, this isn't an attempt to discourage students from coming to Shaastra. It has always and will continue to welcome everyone!

In its inaugural year, Sparsh will be conducted in Hyderabad and Chennai for students in respective cities along the lines of Shaastra itself, albeit on a smaller scale. It will have competitions such as Robotics, Contraptions, Rubik's cube workshop and a few unwind events, all of which will serve as a prelude to the scaled up events at Shaastra. Sparsh Robotics and Contraptions will serve as a preliminary round for the corresponding events in Shaastra. Selected teams in these two events will automatically get through the elimination round of the corresponding events in Shaastra. Apart from a new opportunity that Sparsh provides, there are attractive prizes to be won as well.

No other teams from Hyderabad or Chennai will be allowed to participate in Contraptions and Robotics "Emergency Exit" at Shaastra 2008. Only teams qualifying through Sparsh, as per policy no. 2, will be allowed to participate. Please refer to the Sparsh Policy Document for the detailed rules and regulations.

Sparsh is an effort by the Shaastra team to reach out to everyone and build a bigger and better Shaastra. And we shall continue down that path with all our energy and enthusiasm.

See you in Hyderabad and Chennai!

Cheers,
Shaastra Core Team.

Sparsh Chennai

Date: 20th September
Venue: IIT Madras, Chennai

Schedule:

19 AM to 2 PMContraptions
23 PM to 9 PMRobotics


Robotics Problem Statement               PDF        

Contraptions Problem Statement       PDF         HTML

Sparsh Policy Document

Shaastra 2008 will be conducting an event in Hyderabad and Chennai, hereafter referred to as "Sparsh".

  1. Shaastra 2008 will conduct Robotics, Contraptions, Puzzle Championship, Sparsh Main Quiz and Rubik's Cube workshop as a part of Sparsh in Hyderabad. There will be only Robotics and Contraptions as a part of Sparsh in Chennai.
  2. Sparsh will have Contraptions and Robotics "Emergency Exit" as the main events and Sparsh will serve as a preliminary round for these two events in Shaastra.
    The top 8 teams in Sparsh Contraptions from each of the two cities will automatically qualify for the final round of Shaastra 2008 Contraptions.
    The top 8 teams in Sparsh Robotics from each of the two cities will automatically get through the elimination round and qualify for the second phase of Shaastra 2008 Robotics "Emergency Exit" event on a condition that the team's robot performs all the necessary tasks mentioned in the problem statement.
  3. All prize money will be given out only if the teams participate in the next round at Shaastra 08.
  4. Two more teams will be waitlisted per main event, with participation in Shaastra to be confirmed within 3 weeks of Sparsh.
  5. Shaastra will not pay any consideration to the host college for hosting the event.
  6. Shaastra will not bear any expenses of the expenses borne by the host college, other than any items required during Sparsh.
  7. Shaastra will not bear any incidental expenses borne by the host college with regard to food, travel etc.
  8. No other teams from Hyderabad or Chennai will be allowed to participate in Contraptions and Robotics "Emergency Exit" at Shaastra 2008. Only teams qualifying through Sparsh, as per policy no. 2, will be allowed to participate.
  9. Teams from Andhra Pradesh can participate in Sparsh Hyderabad, and teams from Tamil Nadu can participate in Sparsh Chennai, but participation in Sparsh would render them ineligible to participate in the same event in Shaastra 08, unless they qualify through Sparsh.
  10. Irrespective of the team's participation in the main events of Sparsh, the teams are eligible to participate in the rest of the events, viz. the events other than Contraptions and Robotics "Emergency Exit", in Shaastra 08.
  11. The judgment of the respective event coordinators shall be final and binding with regard to events.
  12. In case of any disputes, the decision of the Co-Curricular Affairs Secretary, IIT Madras shall be final.
  13. Any legal disputes shall be in the jurisdiction of the Chennai High Court.

Certificate and Prize Money Policy

  1. Certificates of appreciation will be awarded to each of the members of the top 3 teams in the main events.
  2. Sum total of INR 24000 will be awarded as cash prize to the winning teams in main events.
  3. If the teams winning this prize money were to win the corresponding event at Shaastra 2008 too, then an equivalent amount will be deducted from the final Shaastra prize money.
  4. No other certificates will be awarded at Sparsh in accordance with the certificate policy of Shaastra 2008.