Kathmandu, December 29: LOCUS 2020 has officially kicked off with record-breaking participation from students all over Nepal in its first three pre-events, namely, Hardware Fellowship, Software Fellowship, and Home Electrification. The events were meticulously designed for beginners who aspired to pursue technology in the future. Every event was guided by a syllabus prepared with utmost care to provide the right learning curve for the students.
Hardware Fellowship, a 10-day workshop, saw a total participation of 251 students who were introduced to hardware simulation, bread-boarding, soldering, Arduino, and other basics of electronics armed with a pragmatic teaching method. Software Fellowship, not unlike the Hardware Fellowship introduced a total of 91 fresh-men year students to modern programming paradigms such as Python, web development and a primer to database management systems. Home Electrification was a 7-day workshop where a total of 110 students were trained using different electrical circuits and simple house wiring circuits with visible outputs.
LOCUS 2020 committee recently organized its Theme Release program which was graced by the presence of personalities from United Nations Nepal, namely, Ms. Moon Gurung from UN Volunteers and Mr. Subhash Nepali, SDG advisor from UN Resident Coordinator's office. The presence was warranted by the recent partnership of LOCUS 2020 with UN Nepal wherein the UN offers LOCUS guidance in its strategy formulation. Other dignitaries present in the program were the Campus Chief of Pulchowk Campus, Mr. Laxman Paudel, HoD of Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Dr. Surendra Shrestha, Prof. Dr. Subarna Shakya, and Dr. Arun Kumar Timilsina.
The main theme of LOCUS exhibition this year is 3 of 17 UN-mandated SDGs:
- 3rd SDG: Good Health and Wellbeing
- 7th SDG: Affordable and Clean Energy
- 11th SDG: Sustainable Cities and Communities
The upcoming events of LOCUS 2020 are Energy Hackathon, Autocad Workshop, Latex The workshop,Girl To Code among others.
About Locus:
LOCUS is a technological festival organized jointly by students of Electronics, Computer and Electrical Departments of Pulchowk Campus. Every year LOCUS conducts many skill development programs, competitive hardware, software and electrical events among students from various national level colleges as well as non-competitive events like exhibition, seminars, paper presentation, gaming competitions, simulation competition and many more providing a platform for interaction and healthy competition among creative minds in technical fields and marketing management.
