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Yesist12

Yesist12 is a project competition, whose target audience is

the international student population. The contest is

conducted by the IEEE education society in order to

encourage and inspire young engineers globally. The

preliminary focus of the workshop was to bring out the

unique and innovative ideas and product prototypes that
would be appealing and viable when realised into the

markets.

The first round of the contest took place in VIT Chennai, on
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the 13 of July 2019 and emphasized on various subjects
including, uplifting societal standards, disaster prediction

and risk management, special needs and health care, women

and children safety, geographical and space, science, and

natural resources management and protection. The

participants hailed from 5 different renowned universities

and were segregated into a total of 7 teams.

The project that were presented had great scopes of

implementation. Each team was give an time span of 15

minutes to present their ideas, at the end of which there was
a question and answer round. Our guest and evaluator Dr.

Satheesh Kumar Perepu offered great insight on the various

aspects and modifications required for each project. The

winner of the event was team WeStitch form SRM Institute

of Technology who will have the great opportunity.