Bangalore :

Schneider Electric India recently concluded the finals of ‘Blaze 2013’ at RVCE College, Bangalore. ‘Blaze’ is an annual energy efficiency contest by Schneider Electric exclusively aimed at students from engineering colleges across India. The contest witnessed nail biting finish when MSRIT-Bangalore was declared winner for Schneider Electric’s Energy Efficiency challenge this year. The winning team was awarded Rs 75,000.

The first runner up team from PESIT-Bangalore and the second runner up team from VIT-Vellore were awarded with Rs. 50,000 and Rs. 25,000 respectively. VIT-Vellore was awarded the “Best Diversity Team” for a healthy mix of team members from different engineering branches and gender balance. RVCE-Bangalore, NIT-Trichy and MSRIT-Bangalore won the “Best White Paper Award” while MSRIT-Bangalore also took the “Best Audit Report Presentation Team Award”.

The contest this year was launched online across 14 engineering colleges from India. Applications were received from more than 80 teams covering more than 500 students across different colleges. Based on the performance in initial rounds of the contest top 14 teams were selected for the mega finals.

The contest comprised of two rounds in which engineering students submitted a white paper on the topic “Energy Efficiency First” in the first round. In the second round, selected students undertook energy audits of their respective university campus. The teams that made through the different rounds then battled it out in the mega finals where they submitted their reports to the jury and the winning team was decided.

The 14 colleges who competed in the final round were Jadavpur University-Kolkatta, IIT-Delhi, NIT- Durgapur, VJTI-Mumbai, COEP-Pune, New Horizon-Bangalore, SJCE-Mysore, IIT-Chennai, MSRIT-Bangalore, MIT-Manipal, RVCE-Bangalore, VIT-Vellore, NIE-Mysore, NIT-Trichy.

source: http://www.articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> City> Bangalore / TNN / June 02nd, 2013