kanpur techkriti the annual technical festival of indian institute of technology kanpur iitk reached its crescendo on the third day of the event on saturday the exuberance of the students was high as the events and competitions had entered into the next round the events organised included a three kilometer racing event organised by myntracom an online shopping portal and playing of holi by the participants another most interesting highlight of the day was the sunburnedm electronic dance music organised in the main auditorium where students danced till they got tired the day also had in store several interesting workshops in which the participants gained valuable knowledge about mobile hacking android application development robotics and cloud computing workshops were also held on automobile designing satellite construction can sat quadcopters and share marketing juniper networks also gave a talk on effective marketing practices one of the major attractions of this years event was talks delivered by people at the forefront of their fields the audience got enlightened about condensed matter physics by ramamurti shankar professor in yale university in the afternoon an interesting talk was delivered by peter schultz the coinventor of the optical fibre he narrated the fascinating history of the development of optical fibre and highlighted how his invention has radically changed the world of communication and made internet possible wolf prize winner harald rose talked on electron microscopy the session espeak had divya sornaraja ceo and founder pith inc amit ranjan cofounder slideshare and alok soni from yourstorycom sharing their experiences and expertise on diverse areas of sales and marketing the electromania finals in the morning saw fierce competitions between the best of teams with team electrohub and team mentos emerging as the joint winners while team mavericks bagged the third place the morning air was charged up with knockout rounds of robogames like wild soccer hoverush and maneuver with teams working hard to make their bots decimate the rest the techkriti grand prix continued to the next round with the struggle becoming tougher and tougher the talent of participants flew high in competitions of aeromodeling like multirover sky sparks and cruise control the competitions on bridge designs aisrc and imp brought forth novel innovations and creativity the mixedbowl quiz had the best minds competing to prove their mettle in various fields for potential entrepreneurs there were competitions on business ventures and stock markets like battlefield do your due and marketing villa the fest also saw some worthwhile discussions in soccon social track and 29 statespeople of all age groups were seen taking photographs with stunning exhibits at the tech planet the highend technologies and supercars continued to be major crowd magnets even on the third day of the fest the events at megaworld added a further zing to the fest with fun events like 24 mini auctioning suicide chess blind date finals poker and mafia the events gave the workedup minds a good chance to take a break and relax the audience enjoyed the much awaited edm