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Announcing Winners – BITSAA Awards

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BITS has had a tradition of recognizing and commemorating its faculty, alumni & students or their achievements in academics, extra-curricula’s  and  contribution towards business or a societal cause. BITSAA International continues that tradition with the BITSAA Awards.  It gives us immense pleasure to recognize and honour this year’s outstanding efforts of those volunteers who keep the 40000+ BITSians spread across the globe connected with each other as well as their alma mater.

The BITSAA Awards were instituted earlier this year in order to recognize and commend all those who went above and beyond their call of duty to take BITSAA one step further to its vision of creating a resourceful and well networked alumni community.

This is our humble attempt to reward the exceptional amount of time, efforts and interest these people have put in. The following are categories being awarded this year:

  • Most Successful Team – Given to the team(s) that has shown remarkable commitment, excellent execution beyond the listed goals, and credible collaboration across teams. All BITSAA teams are eligible to be nominated in this category.
  • Distinguished Service to Alumni Community – Given to the individual(s) that has served the Alumni Community not just to the best of his/her ability, but over and beyond that. He/She has exhibited consistent and sustainable efforts over time, and spent considerable efforts in developing relationships and individuals for the benefit of BITSAA. This category is open to all BITSAA leaders.
  • Exceptional Leadership – Given to the individual(s) who has proven to be an exceptional leader with proven integrity, interpersonal skills, goal setting for team, and carrying the team along with him/her. This category is intended for Managers and above, but exceptions will be made if there is sufficient justification.
  • Outstanding Volunteerism – Given to the individual(s) who put in efforts outside of his stated project tasks, has excellent communication skills, and is result driven. This category is open to all Volunteers and Team leaders
  • Promising Newcomer – Given to the individual(s) who joined BITSAA recently, but proved to be an invaluable resource to the team, and the organisation, through his/her dedication, leadership, and commitment. As the name suggests, this is open to any leader who is a newcomer.

The nominations under each category were rigorously reviewed by the leadership team to choose winners who have shown skyrocketing levels of enthu!. It was really tough to choose between such talent and dedication, and took us several rounds of discussions and debates!

Finally the time has come for us to open the envelopses and reveal the winners. We take great pleasure in announcing and congratulating the recipients of BITSAA Awards 2013:

  • Most Successful Team:
    • Shared by Scholarships team and BITS Spark team.
  • Distinguished Service to Alumni Community
    • Aalap Tripathi, Ex-CEO
    • Kaushik Subramanian, Ex-CFO
    • Vijay Sharma, Ex-COO
  • Exceptional Leadership
    • Soumyadeep Ghosh, BITS2MSPHD
    • Kaushik Balasubramanian,  Marketing & Communications
    • Rahul Parsani, Finance
    • Hari Kishore, Scholarships
    • Sherin Kurian, Scholarships
  • Outstanding Volunteerism
    • Hari Prasath, Alumni Membership
    • Deepan Kishore, Campus Relations
    • Pramod Vadlamani, People Strategy
    • Anurag Jaipuriar, Scholarships
    • Aakash Goel, Technology
    • Chetan Bansal, Technology
  • Promising Newcomer
    •  Sunalini Sinha, Operations

Congratulations to all the winners!! You have made BITSAA and BITS- Pilani proud.

Rest assured, such dedication and efforts will continue to take us forward by leaps and mark us on the map as one of the best alumni organizations in the world.

 

BITSConnect 2.0 – The journey so far

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2 years of all the hard-work  planning, and anticipation come to fruition with the inauguration of BITS Connect 2.0 on Jan 9th and 10th ! Our alma mater will take its first step in becoming a world class private university with the state of the art TelePresence installations. We at BITSAA International are thrilled – to say the least !

The team has been publishing a series of newsletters covering the idea of the game changing project, how BITSConnect 2.0 will change the way the world looks at BITS Pilani and the passionate BITSians who have generously donated for the project. If you had missed out on reading the newsletters, here’s a quick recap on what’s been happening around the BITS Connect 2.0 front

    • The Bridges to the Future fundraising Campaign was formally launched on Dec 6, 2011 with the flagship initiative being BITSConnect 2.0. Here’s a snapshots of the events so far http://www.bitsaa.org/news/109013/
    • Two BITSians scripted one of the first BITSian entrepreneurial success stories in the US and then generously donated US$ 100K towards a TelePresence room at the BITS Pilani Hyderabad campus. http://www.bitsaa.org/news/111338/
    • Two BITSians join hands to pay Gurudakshina to their favorite Professor at BITS – They donate $50K for BITS Connect 2.0 and name a TelePresence room in Goa campus after Prof. Handa – http://www.bitsaa.org/news/112178/
    • Young BITSian entrepreneurs talk about how BITS and BITSians supported them in their entrepreneurial journey. As a pay-back, they donate $50K towards a TelePresence room in Pilani Campus  –  http://www.bitsaa.org/news/112322/

You can also watch the inauguration from the confines of your home – Connect with us via our Facebook page and stay updated about the webcast of the launch !

Spread the word about BITS Connect 2.0. Feel Proud to be a BITSian !

Wear your BITS Tshirt to Work day – Dates Postponed

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BITSAA International had announced the ‘Wear your BITS Tshirt to work’ day on 11th Jan, 2013 – When BITSian across the world would show their Support for BITS Connect 2.0 by wearing their BITS Tshirts to their work-places.

We loved the enthusiasm that BITSians have shown and truly appreciate their coming together supporting BITS Pilani’s flagship project.

We received an overwhelming response from BITSians across the globe to participate in the campaign. Unfortunately, catering to the large orders and shipping them around the peak holiday season posed logistic problems – and we are forced us to postpone the ‘Wear your BITS Tshirt to Work’ day to a later date.

BITS Pilani is entering its 50th year of functioning as a private university and the BITS administration is gearing up for grand celebrations across all 4 BITS campuses.This will be a bigger project and a bigger initiative for BITsians to show their support. The Wear your BITS Tshirt to work day will now coincide with the Golden Jubilee celebrations at BITS slated in the next academic year. We will keep you posted on the exact dates!

Stay tuned for more updates on the campaign and look forward to your enthusiastic participation next year !

Making Sense from Numbers: Our Mario Bros

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The Alumni Membership team at BITSAA International have been looking at a lot of numbers in the past few months – numbers about registrations on the portal across demographics. The team decided to publish some of the stats, and come with some insights on these numbers. If you have ideas on how we can improve these numbers and bring in more registrations, we are all ears – Shoot out an email to membership-team@bitsaa.org and we will be happy to learn from you.

 

Analysis Period : June 22 – August 22 (2012)


Batch – Wise data

The batch-wise data looked much like the prior months, except for one batch which stood out. No points for guessing here, as to which batch it was. But we didn’t understand the reason initially, until we realized that this was a special year for the batch of 1983.  If you do some simple arithmetic, you would have realized that It is their Silver Jubilee year, 25th year post graduation. It is wonderful to see that they are making a step towards having their batch members register in BITSAA.org, and towards the goal having one repository for all BITSian.

 

A special congratulation to the ‘Batch of 1983’! Do share some pictures with us, once you are done with your Silver Jubilee Reunion (SJR). 

 

Campus- Wise data
 
Now from the campus-wise data. Looking at the trend of the prior months, things look quite healthy, and very similar to the prior months. Goa seem to have been gaining some steam more recently, increasing their month over month membership count. I am sure, that the other campuses aren’t going to sit and watch.  Are you? Let us make sure we make some noise, and have all our friends registered. Now, you know, what to ask, when you talk to them after a next time. 😉
Have fun people until we see you in a few weeks.

 

PS: Mario Bros arcade game was created in 1983. Now how can we forget them!