Axis (Science Festival)
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AXIS is a national-level technical festival held at the Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology
Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology
Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology , Nagpur, also referred to as NIT, Nagpur, is a premier engineering college in central India...

 in Nagpur
Nagpur
Nāgpur is a city and winter capital of the state of Maharashtra, the largest city in central India and third largest city in Maharashtra after Mumbai and Pune...

, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

. One of the largest technical festivals in India, the festival is organized annually at the end of September. Events at the festival include coding
Coding
Coding may refer to:* Channel coding in coding theory* Line coding* Computer programming, the process of designing, writing, testing, debugging / troubleshooting, and maintaining the source code of computer programs...

 competitions (Cypher), architectural event (DEVISE), robotics
Robotics
Robotics is the branch of technology that deals with the design, construction, operation, structural disposition, manufacture and application of robots...

 event (Robotix), and paper presentations (Technodox).

Axis was first organized in 2004 after merging the two traditionally held technical festivals - the IEEE Expressions and Odyssey. Now it has gone on to become the largest technical festival in central India with a combined participation of more than 3,000 participants from all over India with a combined budget of about Rs.2.5 million (as of 2009).
Recently, the students have started a new guest lecture series under TED which is referred to as "TEDxVNIT" and an initiative towards the environment called "SOW GREEN". Both of these are the integral part of AXIS from the year 2010.

Organisation

Axis is an entirely student-organized fest organised by VNITians. The managers can be broadly categorized into two sections—The Core and Individual Event Managers. The events managers deal with the events that are conducted;like competitions, exhibitions, lectures, workshops. The Core deals with issues like accounts, infrastructure, marketing, hospitality, publicity and media.

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