I&E Cell Secretary ’22

The Milestone

• Disclaimer: I really didn’t want to lead this responsibility as I became GDSC Lead by that time, but due to personal commitment the other team members had and due to the legacy we built from the first year itself, I didn’t want it to go into the wrong hands, so I also took the flag of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Cell of AIT and led it with complete responsibility.
• The problem with GDSC was that it was very uncertain and didn’t know their next step, but in E Cell we had our yearly budget of more than 5 Lakhs at that time and I knew what I could do in this whole year with this kind of budget and what we could plan in the time period.
• Well, as a Secretary I had a lot of responsibility because our E Cell had shown a lot of growth in the past few years compared to other clubs because we were running it like a startup, so did our responsibilities and for that year we focused on going to inter-college events and reaching out so that the students in our college had the right exposure and opportunities.
• The favorite part if someone asked me in E Cell then I would say the team we had, it was phenomenal they worked day and night to achieve the tasks which I as Secretary envisioned and they did all of that because they respected me and couldn’t say no to me.
• We conducted our first physical Startup Saga, since it was the first time and we implemented new ideas altogether for the events and it was uncharted territory for everyone and I would say we did pretty good as a team and it was 90% success and 10% failure. 10% because we changed the judging criteria before asking the judges whether they were comfortable or not, for speaker sessions we had some amazing speakers like unicorn founders, Shark Tank Pitchers, financial experts, career coaches and we couldn’t get more than 200 people in any of the sessions.
• Apart from that we did pretty good and I really made some good bonding with my juniors over that time.
• I, as a Secretary, did many other great and worst things, but if I start writing that also over here, then it would make this a long chapter instead of an article. But over the three years, it taught me many things and opened a lot of doors for me.