ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF IIIT SRIKAKULAM

NATIONAL CRICKET PLAYER FROM IIIT SRIKAKULAM

TECH FEST IN CAMPUS

STATE 1ST AND 2ND PRIZES IN YOGA

EXTRA CULTURAL  ACTIVITIES 

BOONS IN IIIT

WHAT IS THE BOONS IN IIIT?

1. Providing 6 Years Free B.Tech Integrated Course to the Rural Background Students for the Youth of Andhra pradesh
2. Providing Laptops to Each Individual Student
3. It is known for it’s world class Infrastructure.
4. You will find friends from Diverse Backgrounds from Various Mandals in the state of Andhrapradesh.
5.  Faculty are Highly Qualified and Knowledgeable 
6.  Faculty are Interactive with the students, they encourage students to Start Clubs like Programming Club, Student Development Cell, Helping Hands, Web Development Club, Robotics Club,Cultural Activities Club etc.
7. Apart from Academic clubs there is a Music Department, They will train Classical Music and Dance.
8. Provide practice in yoga,sports etc..
9. Bagged so many prizes in National Wide Competitions.

                                   

WHY IIIT?

WHY IIIT?

At IIIT, a a “Lowest Best Model” is used to select students from a small community like a Mandal which had a few hundred students graduating each year in comparison to selecting students based on a state wide or nationwide ranking system based on marks or entrance tests. Such a practice overcomes the disparity in the selection process between the urban and rural environments. Therefore, the better performance of students in an urban Mandal doesn't have an impact on the selection process of students in a neighboring rural Mandal.

The other issue IIIT is attempting to tackle is the issue of "Early Specialization". In most cases, once a student goes into a Junior College for a pre-university program, he gets routed through coaching factories that drill them to get the top ranks in entrance tests which will enable him to secure a seat in a good college or university. This kind of intensive coaching makes students uni-dimensional with very little understanding of anything other than what they have been coached in.

Once students get into professionals colleges, they don't get any exposure to Humanities and Social Sciences for the rest of their lives. IIIT attempts to deal with this issue by giving students direct admission into a 6-year integrated program after class X. Here, they are not subjected to two years of torture preparing for entrance tests. Since these students are already gifted and belong to the top 1%, it is expected that they will do well naturally and don't need other entrance tests. However, the reservation system, based on the Affirmative Action Program of India, requires that students belonging to the weaker sections of society be given at least 50% of all the available seats. Many of these students, due to their backgrounds, are likely to be less educated and less trained even though they might be the best in their sub-group. Thus, the student body entering IIIT will have a diverse educational level. What is common is that they are selected because they are the best in that community. Medium of instruction is almost always Telugu. This in turn brings about the need for remedial programs to be developed so that all students can go through an educational program with English as the medium of instruction.

In Andhra Pradesh, over a million students pass the class X state wide exam yearly. Of these, the top 1% or about 10,000 students are probably brilliant but their educational levels of achievement are diverse and disparate based on their schooling and quality of education. Since admission into IIIT is based on a "Local Best Model" and uses the rule of reservation as put forward by the government of India, this top 1% has a wide diversity of marks. 60-70% of the students come from rural backgrounds and will have the opportunity to study in a world class institution.

Education at IIIT is based on the intensive use of Information Technology. Every student has access to a laptop and education uses the latest advances in Learning Sciences such as Learning by Example, Learning by Doing and Problem-based Learning. Online lectures are provided and lectures are followed by problem solving sessions that reinforce what has been covered in each lecture.