TechnoparkToday.com – Techies News, Jobs, Events & Lifestyle! Technopark News Jobs & Lifestyle!
TechnoparkToday.com>> August 30, 2014: With the dawn of Atham, Technopark fell into the festival mood of Onam. Techies in traditional attires made the campus in a celebration mood.
The onam celebrations in the IT park kick started with the Athappookalam competition held at the Technopark club house. Eleven companies participated in the contest.
Techies are busy these days, some are on a shopping spree to buy dresses for family to celebrate onam at their native place. Some have headed to Balaramapuram to buy traditional onam wears from hand loom shops. Some techies are rushing to Thovala flower market to arrange flowers for company’s pookkalam.
“Everything is fine and perfect this onam, but techies have no onam special bonus to celebrate the festival” quipped a techie.
“Most of the software companies will have onam holidays, but we in the ITES sector will have work even on Thiruvonam as we are working on US/UK schedules.” another techie said.
In the coming days till Thiruvonam, various companies will have onam celebrations in Technopark campus with pookkalam, pulikali, and onasadya adding glitters to the festival. The celebrations will be held at Technopark club house and park center.
Technopark floral decoration competition, 2014
In the floral
decoration competition which was conducted by Technopark authorities for
the year 2014, it was a clear cut showcase of absurdness and immature
way of conducting a tournament. First of all the competition was
conducted without having an external judge evaluating the Atham’s being
decorated by different teams. The evaluation was asked to be done by the
team captains who were participating the tournament, which itself was a
stupid decision taken by the authorities.
Soon after the prize was announced it created a negative vibe altogether
across all the participating teams, since the prize was announced to a
team which was not even up to the mark and was incomplete. At first even
the tournament authorities were not even showing the individual marks
that were awarded to the teams. This made a huge negative impact since
many teams even withdrawn their prizes which were to be awarded for the
Tug-of-war winners.
And after constant argument by the participating teams the authorities
made the decision to have a recount initiated for the tournament and
after the recounting was done the first prize was awarded to Noratel’s
floral decoration instead of the previously announced Nest’s floral
decoration.
There are many companies across Technopark, who has been taking part in
all the floral decoration tournaments conducted by Technopark in last
years, and every year we educated ourselves from the correction and
suggestions provided by the experts who normally come to invigilate the
competition, and we expected the same year as well. But it was a very
much disappointed outing for all of us this time, since the actions
happened was totally unexpected from a very-well managed entity like
Technopark. And with all due respect we would like to inform that if
things are to be continued in the similar manner there will be many
companies who will discontinue taking part of the competitions that
Technopark would be organising in coming years.
A proper and adequate measure needs to be initiated to come up with
corrective and effective measures to make an event fruitful, unbiased
and enjoyable across all the teams.
Technopark floral decoration competition, 2014
I was one of the participants in the competition. Nest was declared the winners first. But after a rightful disagreement by the participating teams the authorities made the decision to have a recount initiated for the tournament and after the recounting was done it was found the judgement was wrong. The first prize was awarded to Noratel’s floral decoration instead of the previously announced Nest’s floral decoration. My company Speridian Technologies bagged the second prize after being denied the first time. This has been a major disappointment from the Technopark authorities. What is reported here “Eleven companies participated in the contest and among this Nest bagged the first prize” is wrong. It is an insult to us winners and I sincerely hope the Technopark Today authorities retracts this story reports the correct news. With all due respect I would like to inform the Technopark Today authorities to please ensure to get the facts right before reporting a story.
“Eleven companies participated in the contest and among this Nest bagged the first prize.” This is not the correct result. Noratel bagged the first prize and Speridian Technologies bagged the second prize. In the middle of hectic work schedule, the hard work that participants had put in to the tournament was immense. But where the authorities really serious about the competition? If yes, then how did they leave space for such a mistake?
It was actually treated as a childish game. It was not considered as a competion between the companies. Actually spent money, and valuable time for a mock test instead off feeding poor people living around.
From Ariva’s side we appealed and again started with judgement which was not correct though. The right contestant GDS who fulfilled all the criteria 1.Message 2.Colors 3.Arrangement 4. FLoral. Among 11 contestants Nest was the second Last.. ANyway .. it was funnn…………..And please club wont repeat this
Floral decoration judgement was poor and not in a good manner, judge from outside, The authorities who conducted the competition shows their indifferent attitude. “team captains of each team evaluate other’s floral decorations” such a waste of time and effort for all contestants and the price is useless and shameful for the team who win the competition. “every team wish to get a price without argument”. Even the small clubs outside technopark can conduct a contest better than this.
Not a childish game but a preplanned game . Spent money and valuable time for this type of crookedness. The actions happened was totally unexpected from a very-well managed entity like Technopark…….
The floral decoration conducted by Technopark club last week is really a mess for participating teams and team members. The judgment is total foolishness from the authorities. No outside judge was there, the judgment done by the team captains each other without any criteria for floral decoration. There is no outside judging panel for this competition. The authorities shows there indifferent attitude on this competition. 11 teams participates the competition. This kind of judgement is a total foolishness. This is such wast of time and effort. Internal evaluation by the teams each other such a funny thing, even the clubs outside the Technopark can conduct better competitions than this kind of foolishness. No team can wish to get a price after argument with the authorities.
An organization such as Technopark should be
conducting a competition in a trustworthy manner. The judgement of a floral
decoration requires that all the criteria be fulfilled. The authorities were
not even showing the marks first, which clearly indicates that they had planned
to give it to Nest. The authorities asking the team captains to judge
without any criteria is nonsensical.
An organization such as Technopark should be conducting a competition in a trustworthy manner. The judgement of a floral decoration requires that all the criteria be fulfilled. The authorities were not even showing the marks first, which clearly indicates that they had planned to give it to Nest. The authorities asking the team captains to judge without any criteria is nonsensical. Proper evaluation of a competition can only be done by external judges, not by members of the team participating.
I hope that the technopark authorities conduct the floral decoration competition in a sensible manner next year.
Why Technopark was so careless in judging these kind of a tight competition. Actually what was the issue..?