The document describes the KIIT University ACM Student Chapter. It provides information on the chapter's vision/mission, benefits of ACM membership, chapter officers and members, events held, and opportunities for the chapter. The chapter aims to help computing professionals advance their skills and make a positive social impact. It is currently the only active ACM student chapter in Odisha, giving it opportunities to promote computing and digital literacy in the state.

1. KIIT University ACM
Student Chapter
Chapter Group Id: 153142
Prepared by
Tathagata Bandyopadhyay
Chair
KIIT University ACM Student Chapter

2. Presentation Overview
 Introduction
 Vision and Mission
 Benefits of being an ACM Member
 Benefits of ACM Student Chapter
 Chapter Officers
 Group Members
 Membership Policy
 Events
 ACM Tech Talk
 Golden Opportunity
 Challenges
 Conclusion

3. Introduction
 ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery (www.acm.org), is the premier
global community of computing professionals and students with nearly
100,000 members in more than 170 countries interacting with more than 2
million computing professionals worldwide.
 In recent years, KIIT University has become a global platform.
 To add a new feather to this global standard of our university, we, some students of
School of Computer Engineering started this KIIT University ACM Student Chapter on
3rd October, 2016, with the motivation, inspiration and guidance of our faculty sponsor
Mr. Rajdeep Chatterjee, Assistant Professor, SCE, KIIT University.
 All of our faculty including our Dean, Prof. Samaresh Mishra supported us in
this noble cause.

4. Vision and Mission
 OUR MISSION: We help computing professionals to be their
best and most creative. We connect them to their peers,
to what the latest developments, and inspire them to
advance the profession and make a positive impact on
society.
 OUR VISION: We see a world where computing helps solve
tomorrow’s problems – where we use our knowledge and
skills to advance the computing profession and make a
positive social impact throughout the world.

5. Benefits of being an ACM Student Member
As per the information given by ACM, one ACM Student Member can get
the following benefits:
 Complimentary Subscription to Digital CACM- a three-month
complimentary electronic subscription to ACM’s flagship publication
Communications of the ACM.
 An email forwarding address – Chapter members are eligible for a
“@acm.org” email forwarding address with filtering
 Receipt of ACM’s Popular E-Newsletters – TechNews, the latest
news in computing; CareerNews, the latest career and industry
news; and MemberNet, all about ACM people and events
 A full-year electronic subscription to XRDS, ACM's Student Magazine
(quarterly)

6. Benefits of being an ACM Student Member: Contd.
 Student Awards and Competitions - ACM Student Awards and Competitions
were created to recognize chapters and individuals that display considerable
initiative and ambition throughout the year. ACM holds 4 main competitions
throughout the year:
 ICPC: International Collegiate Programming Contest
 SRC: Student Research Competition
 Student Chapter Excellence Awards
 Upsilon Pi Epsilon ACM Student Scholarship Award

7. Benefits of ACM Student Chapter
 Administrative Interface - allowing you to manage your chapter’s member roster, update your
chapter’s contact information, and much more!
 Chapter Web Tools – Website hosting, wikis and blogs
 Chapter Website Template - ACM has developed a custom ACM WordPress theme with the look-and-feel
of the main ACM site http://campus.acm.org/public/infodir/wordpress.cfm
 Local Activities Calendar – Let Chapter Members, ACM Members, and other computing professionals,
know about your upcoming events
 Chapter Outreach -
 ACM offers to publicize noteworthy chapter events to ACM members in their geographical area.
Chapters are limited to one message per month.
 If a group of Chapter organizers needs assistance in recruiting members, ACM will send a message on
their behalf
 Promotional Materials - ACM can provide Chapters with materials for Chapter events or
recruitment drives

8. Benefits of ACM Student Chapter : Contd
 Chapter Member Newsletter– Receive a quarterly update on all the
latest and greatest happenings, specific to ACM Chapters.
 ACM Distinguished Speakers Program – an outreach program of ACM
that brings distinguished speakers from academia, industry, and
government to give presentations to ACM chapters.
 Recognition of Service Certificates – Recognition of service
certificates for outgoing chairpersons who have served at least one
year in office will be issued free of charge upon written request.
 ACM Business Insurance Coverage – The Commercial Package covers
ACM legal liability for negligent acts on the part of ACM employees,
volunteers, and ACM Chapters causing bodily injury, personal injury, or
property damage to a third party up.

9. Chapter Officers
 Faculty Sponsor :
Mr. Rajdeep Chatterjee,
Assistant Professor,
SCE, KIIT University
 Vice Chair :
Arkaprava Bhandari,
Student,
SCE, KIIT University
As per the ACM instructions we have four Officers in four posts :
 Chair :
Tathagata Bandyopadhyay,
Student,
SCE, KIIT University
 Treasurer :
Kaustav Mukhopadhyay,
Student,
SCE, KIIT University

10. Group Members
 Chapter can not run with only the officers.
 At present we have 13 ACM members (paid) and more
than 28 chapter member(non paid).
 Different members are assigned to different roles
 Members are broadly categorized into Design Team, Event
Management Team, Publicity Team
 All teams work together to organise events.

11. Our Team

12. Membership Policy
 As per the ACM instructions, we have two types of members:
 ACM Members (paid):
 These people pay ACM membership fees to ACM
 Chapter Members (free):
 These people are not registered with ACM.
 They need not to pay membership fees to ACM.
 Chapter Officers must be ACM members (paid).
 Only the ACM members can take part in voting for officer selection.
 All members can have access to the online resources shared by ACM

13. Events
 Our ACM chapter has organised quite a fair number of events till date
with its limited resources.
 Events includes:
 Evening lecture by In House Faculties on specialized and emerging topics.
 Evening hands on session by expert Students on trending Technologies
like: Python, Java Script, P5.js etc.
 Guest lecture by experts from Industry / Academics.
 All the events are free of cost and open to all students.

14. Glimpse of Some Events till date
 Evening
session on
Python by
some group of
expert students.
 More than 25
students
attended the
session to get
some hands-on
experience with
python

15. Glimpse of Some Events till date : Contd.
Evening lecture by our
in house faculty
Prof. Mahendra
Gourisaria on
Over View of
Web
Technologies

16. Glimpse of Some Events till date : Contd.
Session on Cryptography by Rishav
Chatterjee, an expert Student.

17. Glimpse of Some Events till date : Contd.
 Data Analytics
Lecture by in house
faculty Prof. Rajat
Kumar Behera

18. Glimpse of Some Events till date : Contd.
 Hands-on Evening
session on
interactive
Graphics using
P5.js by some
group of students.

19. ACM Tech Talk
 This is the biggest event
organised by our chapter in
collaboration with KIIT FEST
 Dr. Avinash Kumar Singh from
HCL India delivered interesting
talk about advance robotics,
computer vision, machine
learning.
 More than 80 students
participated.
 This was the first ACM Tech Talk
 Many more versions of it to
come.

20. ACM Tech Talk : Few Moments

21. Golden Opportunity
 According to the information
available in the ACM website, our
ACM chapter is the ONLY ONE
ACTIVE Chapter in All
Over Odisha.
 So we have tremendous
opportunities, including
taking a leading role in
opening more such ACM
student chapters in Odisha.
 We can play a significant
role in creating awareness of
digital Literacy in the state
of Odisha.

22. Conclusion
 Our ACM Student Chapter is very young and emerging
 It is the only one ACM Chapter in all over Odisha(as per
the data available in the ACM website).
 So it has tremendous opportunities and possibilities in
creating digital awareness.