Forge Accelerator organized iDAY- Demo Day & Graduation day for the 6th cohort of ProtoSem, a curriculum-based skill & competency development program. Forge Accelerator, organized the iDAY- Demo Day & graduation day for the 6th cohort of ProtoSem at Forge recently. Dr. B.K. Krishnaraj Vanavrayar, Chairman, Kumaraguru Institutions presided over the event and felicitated the Innovation Engineers.
Protosem is a first-of-its-kind, 20-week full-semester course offered as comprehensive skills and competency development program that embeds an innovation centered approach to engineering education right into the core of the engineering college. During the program, students pursuing engineering, science, and technical courses work on real-time problem statements from Industry, Government and social sectors to co-create cost-effective technological solutions.
The 6th Graduation Day of Protosem began with a live demonstration of the Minimum Usable Prototypes and Product Innovations by the students which they have built over the 20-week time period. Thiruppathy Srinivasan (Vice-President, Ather Energy), Dorai Thodla (Founder, Technology Strategies LLC), Dr.Saravanan (Dean Academics, KCT) and Kumar Sachidanandam(Founder, Ydealogy Ventures), other startup mentors, technology experts, and industry veterans witnessed the demo and evaluated the progress of the innovations. The event also had received wide participation from parents.
The demo was followed by a formal graduation ceremony with Vish Sahasranamam, CEO & Co-Founder, Forge welcoming all the guests, parents of the graduating students, faculty members of the participating student institutes and the batch of graduating students. Dr. Lakshmi Meera, Program Director, Forge, shared the vision and evolution of Protosem over the last three years. Dinesh, Program Manager Forge elaborated on the structure of the program and presented the science behind managing product innovations. Parents shared their happiness and excitement about the transformation that ProtoSem has brought in their children. All the guests were honoured with mementoes specially designed by the ProtoSem students.