Student Activities

Naissance 2015

Naissance, the Student managed flagship management fest of SDMIMD was inaugurated by Mr. Girish Karunakaran, Vice President of Eurasia, Software Paradigm International (SPI). The 3-Day event scheduled during January 29 to 31, 2015, is the arena wherein the brightest minds from the best B-Schools across India battle it out to attain supremacy in intellect and creativity. This year the theme ‘Unscramble for Success’ emphasizes the need for synergy and distinctness among managers to enable them, make the right moves at the right time to scale greater pinnacles in this scrambled world.

Mr. Girish Karunakaran in his inaugural address to the young minds gathered stressed on the role of youth towards building the nation. Speaking about the entrepreneurial initiatives in the country, which is steadily growing over the past few years, he called upon the young managers to build their career and provide employment to others as well.

Dr. N.R. Parasuraman, Director, SDMIMD welcomed the gathering and appreciated the effort and managerial acumen of SDMites in making Naissance 2015 possible.

Over 180 students representing B-Schools across India participated in this event.

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Amazing You… amazed SDMites once again

Amidst all the pressures of academica, students of SDMIMD managed to keep their creative spirits up. The students managed to maintain the legacy of photography project – Amazing you - which was started last year. On January 30, 2015, SDMIMD witnessed the Amazing you exhibition. More than 350 visitors had visited the exhibition. The visitors were pleasantly surprised on seeing the pictures of students getting clicked with such wonderful concepts. A few notable photographs which grabbed special attention were those of Neha Patil, Ashish Mishra, Sandeep Negi, Aakash Rawat and Titas Debnath.

The Amazing You project aims to bring the best out of every student of SDMIMD. “We feel, everyone has something amazing and beautiful in themselves and we thrive to bring out the same through photographs. The project has the same fan following as it had last year.” says Aditya Jiddu the student coordinator of the event. The photographers travelled across Mysore in different times to catch the perfect light for the photograph. The members of the Team Amazing You Phase –II include Aditya Jiddu, Vaibhav Bhandari, Aditya khandelwal, Prateek Jain, Abhijeet Mishra, Shreyas H N and Vishnu A A. The group has students from both first and second years.

Big Future: the B-Plan Competition 2015

Swayam – the Entrepreneurship Cell (E-Cell) of SDMIMD has organized national level B-plan competition – Big Future, in which premier B-schools across India were participated in this event. It was a platform where the budding entrepreneurs got a chance to fulfil their dream plan into real. The competition was organized as a part of Naissance 2015. The event scheduled on January 29 & 30, 2015 were adjudged by the SDMIMD alumni members - Mr. Ravi Shankar, CEO, Aim High Consultancy and Mr. Murali Mohan, Managing Partner of Gopika Perfumeries. Dr. M. R. Suresh & Prof. Rajendra Todalbagi the faculty members were present.

The B-Plan competition organized by SDMIMD E-Cell – Swayam was very encouraging. The team from Goa Institute of Management - findadspot.com comprising of Mr.Ankur Jhunjhunwala and Mr.Suneet Dashora emerged as winners of this event.

66th Republic Day Celebration

SDMIMD commemorated 66 years of Indian Republic day with the usual enthusiasm and zeal. Dr. M.R. Suresh, Professor – Marketing, was the Chief Guest of the function. The function began with the hoisting of the flag by the chief guest followed by the singing of the national anthem. Prof. M R Suresh and Prof. N.R. Govinda Sharma, Professor – Business Ethics and Strategy spoke on the occasion and gave away the certificates to the winners of various sports events organized recently. Several students shared their thoughts on the country. This was followed by a community breakfast at the Institute mess. Many faculty members including the Director were present.

Ra-Ga Sisters Musical Melody

SDMIMD had organized a Carnatic vocal concert on January 19, 2015 at SDMIMD Auditorium. Ranjani and Gayathri known as Ra-Ga Sisters, kept the audience bound to their music from start to finish. The entire Carnatic musical program was filled with melody and was greatly appreciated by the large audience.The program was held under the aegis of Kalanubhav, a student cultural forum at the Shri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara Institute for Management Development (SDMIMD) . Every year this student body conducts an event pertaining to music or arts to sensitize the students on Indian culture.

Vittaksh 2014 from SDMites Finnacle Team

SDMites Finance Club - Finnacle successfully conducted Vittaksh-2014 – the Annual National Level Finance Fest during November 28 & 29, 2014. Vittaksh 2014 had 9 rounds which tested and teased the brains of young management students who took part in the event. 17 teams from reputed b-schools including TAPMI, SIBM-Bangalore, Christ University, MYRA School of Business had participated in this National level event. Team from TAPMI emerged as winners of the event and bagged a cash prize of rupees twenty thousand. The team from SIBM-Bangalore was the runner up which got the cash prize of rupees fifteen thousand.

Blood Donation Camp

"The blood you donate gives someone another chance at life". SDMites are always seen coming forward with great enthusiasm to address social issues whenever the situations so warrant. Sunday, November 28, 2014, was one such day. SDMites as many as 61 in number donated their blood to Government Krishna Rajendra (KR) Hospital Mysore at a special camp held at the Institute. The medical team from K.R. Hospital and doctors from Mysore Medical College provided the medical support.

58th Karnataka Rajyotsava Celebration

On November 21, 2014 SDMIMD was transformed into a festival mood on the occasion of Rajyotsava celebrations. Students from 28 states of India happily participated in the festivities of the 58th Anniversary of Karnataka State Formation day.The event began with decorating of the photo of ‘Bhuvaneshwari - Karnataka Maate’ and lighting the traditional lamp. All the SDMites got an opportunity to taste various cuisines of Karnataka which included traditional Ragi Muddae (Ball) and Holige. Students from Karnataka played host for all the celebrations and cheerfully served the food on plantain leaves. Melodious Kannada songs were played on this occasion. The celebration culminated with the cultural programs in the evening.