ahmedabad as the temperatures soar this summer students at the indian institute of technology gandhinagar iitgn are turning to cinematography android application development photography and various other extracurricular activities at the institutes sixweek long summer camp during the summer break iitgn is hosting a summer camp which is offering courses on statistical computing and android application development and cinema and visual representations in addition to the faculty working professionals and experts are teaching the two courses the course on cinema is being taught by a professional photographer sameer bakshi and faculty members from iit kanpur prof satyaki roy and prof shatarupa thakurta roy the other course is being taught by the faculty along with goutam mallick a professional from tata consultancy services tcs a workshop on design principles and a workshop on poetry will also be held as a part of the summer camp apart from these the summer camp also involves activities such as swimming power yoga aerobics painting sketching and various sports prof shankarjee krishnamoorthi who is one of the coordinators of the programme said the summer camp provides an opportunity to the students to add some more skills and capabilities to their list and enhance their personalities rather than playing video games and whiling away their time during the summer more than 50 students mostly from the undergraduates have signed up for taking part in the camp the summer camp has grown from two weeks last year to six weeks this year