Jam Jehanzaib, President was indeed the power house behind the whole event. To lead and manage a huge team is a great task. Being a student of final year, with exams and final year projects approaching, he did quite a good job in everything. We took his five minutes to gain some insights on the events and his journey with naSCon so far. Jam was nostalgic, he pointed to the main gate and told The AppJuice:
“I started as a volunteer, a security volunteer for naSCon and I can vividly remember standing at the entrance gate for more than 12 hours with my feet swollen, but emotions were too high and I was very happy to be a part of naSCon.”
The journey that started with being a security volunteer ended with being the President of naSCon Intl. It was hard work, patience and persistence that lead him to this presidency. Jam also said that he wanted to break the bounds, he saw ex-presidents enjoying a lot of protocol but he didn’t want that. Therefore, he stayed very humble and low profile throughout, and helped everyone during the three event days. Jam gave the credit to his whole team for the event’s success. He said,
“The team has worked really very hard with me, we have spent days and nights working for the event, and we are happy that the upcoming student organizers are going to refer to this event as a reference point in the years to come”
Mohammad Moazzam was the Vice-President of naSCon. As Vice President, his task was to take care of all the major and minor matters, and looking over all the things that were happening under the umbrella of naSCon. Moazzam earned his position as the vice president after organizing a lot of events on the small scale. Moazzam had to compromise on his studies in order to work on this event, but he said his hard work has paid off and there has been quite a lot of learning. When we asked about organizing a mega event by collaborating with all International universities, he said that this is going to be ideal; but looking at everything geographically, this doesn’t seem possible.
Adeel Omar was heading Information and Relations, his job was to cater all the requests that came from within the naSCon team and from all the people who are interested in participation. Yes, that’s the guy who responded to all the requests pertaining to naSCon. Adeel Omar’s phone was ringing all the time, day and night, even after 12am when most of the people were in bed, sleeping calmly. Adeel looked very excited about his new role. We asked if he was overwhelmed by the number of queries:
“I am enjoying every bit of it, I am not taking it as a job. It’s something I am very passionate about, and for sure I am going to take it next level by doing MBA after I graduate from here.”
Fahad Qazi headed the marketing of naSCon. Fahad did a tremendous job in gathering a lot of cool and unique sponsors for the event, and that too in a very short span of time. He looked very thrilled and excited, we asked him how difficult it was, and he said, “Yes It was difficult, yet I enjoyed my role very much. When you are the marketing head, a lot of things rely on you. You have to go out, meet people, inspire companies to sponsor the event, and urge the students to participate in it. I think I was quite honest with my work, and the result is in front of everyone. Due to huge marketing, we received a great number of participants.”
Fahad believes that there are a lot of technical events happening in Pakistani universities now, and it would be great if all the universities worked together to arrange a mega international event for International audience.
Syed Awn Raza headed the finance department, and since he is also studying finance, he thinks he was the right person for the job. Awn said that it was tough yet fulfilling, he learned a lot of lessons on how to organize events in a projected budget. He also audited everything, and managed the registrations. He mentioned that the budget allocation for different events and marketing was very well balanced. “This is why everyone is happy, and we haven’t faced any budget constraints or any financial problems for the event”. When we asked about his future plans, he told that his ultimate plan is to start his own business, but he wants to gain some experience before that.
Osaaf Jamil was heading all the management events. Osaaf looked very thrilled and happy to be a part of naSCon. Being a student of Management at FAST, he believed that heading all of the competitions under management was a great learning experience. The things that he learned here can’t be learned in the industry, even after years. He also started his journey as a volunteer. Osaaf told us that working on the event has affected his studies; but after the event is over, he would be studying day and night to get good grades in the final semester!
Rameez Syed was heading all the EE events under the umbrella of naSCon. Rameez started his journey as a front desk volunteer. But his patience, persistence and faith enabled him to lead a whole new array of events for naSCon this year.
And the winners of different competitions are:
Engineering Competitions
Circuit Mania:
E.H: Hassan Habeeb
Winner: IUIC Hawks
Runners up: IUIC Tigers
Interface-a-thon:
E.H: Ammar Sajid
Winner: Company IIUI
Runners up: Iqrian 1 Iqra Univeristy
Engineering Problem Solving:
E.H: Asad Mumtaz
Winner: Hammad Ur Rehman Iqrian Engineers Iqra University Islamabad
Runners up: 1. Hunters
Math Marathon:
E.H: Muhammad Asim
Winner: DRAW. Einents, EME NUST + Master Minds, FAST LAHORE
Runners up: Quaid Team, Quaid-e-Azam University
Battle of Bots:
E.H: Ahmed Saleem
Winner: Shockwave Unversity of Punjab
Runners up: Steel-x Fast Lahore
Robo Sprint:
E.H: Naveed Hussain
Lego Based Category
Winner: Sniffy EME NUST
Runners up: Bumblebee Headstart School
Logic Based Category
Winner: Lanthanides Air Univeristy
Runners up: Smart Hawk Comsats
Micro Controller Based Category
Winner: Shooter Air Univerity
Runners up: SMART HAWK COMSATS
Best Design Category
Winner: Lanthanides Air University
MATLAB Master Quest:
E.H: M Ahsan Khan
Winner: NT Quarks, IIUI
Runners up: Amijee Coders
Scavengineer:
E.H: Shaad Ahmed
Winner: Fuuastians, Federal Urdu University
Runners up: IUIC Engineers 3, Iqra University
Engineering Project Competition:
E.H: Rafu Ul Zaman
Winner: Siafullah (Markerless Arm(FAST LAHORE))
Runners up: Muhammad Amir Malik (Hawk (IST))
Computer Science Competitions
Debug Police:
E.H: Kashan Danish
Winner: JIR CASE
Runners up: FAST 3 FAST PWR
Mobile App Development:
E.H: Ali Kareem Raja
Winner: BIIT (BIIT)
Runners up: Codex Iqra University
Poster Designing Competition:
E.H: Faizan Ahmed Soomra
Winner: The Slices FAST lahore
Runners up: Yahya Iqra University
Quiz Competition:
E.H: Nabeel Mahmood
Winner: Wild Pointers Private team
Runners up: BIIT (BIIT)
Software Project Competition:
E.H: Muhammad Abu Baker
Winner: The Furturistic Fast ISB
Runners up: Team NUML
Speed Programming:
E.H: Ibrar Arshad
Winner: Programmer’s 11 FAST KHI
Runners up: Mini Coders CASE
Web Application Development:
E.H: Rashid Ahmed
Runners up: Webbers Comsats Wah
Business Competitions
Accounting Guru:
E.H: Farwa Malik
Winner: Hafza QAU
Runners up: Yasir Malik NBS
Ad Mad:
E.H: Sehrosh Gohar
Winner: Ahsan, LUMS
Runners up: Iqra Technolia
Business Plan Competition:
E.H: Khwaja Saad Sohail
Winner: DSSW engineering solutions FAST LHR
Runners up: LUMS team 2
Ideal Candidate:
E.H: Muhammad Hamza Ilahi
Winner: Mehras LUMS
Runners up: ZAIN Nust
Marketing Plan Competition:
E.H: Arsalan Ahmed
Winner: LUMS
Runners up: NUST
Editing by (Usman Younas)
