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Ideation Club

About the club

Madras Christian College has taken an initiative to kindle ideations and innovations among the students. In order to encourage innovative ideas from students, share inputs from stake holders and provide directions for start-up enterprise, MCC-Entrepreneurship Development Cell formulated a forum called Ideation Club, in October 2020. It provides an avenue for the students to discuss, share, and interact among themselves and mentors pertaining to the above subject. Dissemination of information, creating awareness and encouraging the MCC student community to be part of the ideation club are the major agendas. Students as individuals or teams are provided an opportunity to present their proposals and objectives. The members of the group presently interact through WhatsApp, e-mails and virtual meetings due to pandemic, while in the future a physical space inside the campus will be provided for the student members of the ideation club. Phase-wise inclusion of student members from all departments/subject domains is being carried out to encourage ideation and innovation among the entire MCC student community.

Activities

01.
(23rd Nov of 2020)
Ideation Club meeting

The Principal of the college, Dr. Paul Wilson, addressed the ideation club students and shared his vision on creating an innovation ecosystem in the campus. Students later interacted with the Principal, which was followed by students’ presentations. Student presenters were Mugil Vanjinath (Journalism) and Gurukalyan (BBA), Anusha (English literature), Alan & team (BBA), Leah & team (BBA), Divya John & team (BBA), Tamil Udayan (Physics), and Vamsi Raju (Botany).

Identification of students’ ideation interests was carried out for pooling various resources and talents. In order to identify specific areas of interest/strength, facilitate with the inputs and to provide creative environment, an online survey was conducted. More than 150 students were part of the survey and the students’ interests were identified across 13 categories.

02.
(Dec 2020)
Survey on students’ ideation areas
03.
(29th of Jan 2021)
Official inauguration of Ideation Club

Mr. Steven Manuels, Talent Manager, Ford delivered the inaugural address, during which he talked about design thinking and innovation.

The contest was announced on 1st of February 2021 and was open to MCC students. Twenty-  six proposals were received, and preliminary evaluation of proposals was completed by Dr. Aparna Rao, Senior Manager, DS School of Entrepreneurship, IIT Bombay, followed by online presentation by shortlisted students on 27th of March 2021.

04.
(Feb-Mar 2021)
MCC Innovation Contest 2020-21