TECHFEST Asia's Largest Technological Event

Techfest: The Asia's Largest Science and Technology Festival of IIT Bombay.

This year 'Nexus', a unique initiative by Techfest with a motive to spread technology across India introduces field of Solar Energy. Nexus competition:Photoroller a blend of solar power with popular robotics, will be the first ever National Solar Robotics Challenge. Nexus in association with colleges across India serves as a preliminary round to the main competition Photovore held at Techfest

2009 scheduled on 24-26th January.Centers are Patiala, Mumbai, Indore and Hyderabad.

Workshops have been planned at various centers across the country.Tutorials too will be uploaded on the website.Though new, the field of solar robotics is fairly easy and the solar cells are available cheaply at many places. For more details check out the website

Apart form nexus, techfest has a large number of worldwide competitions such as micromouse-in which one ineeds to make a machine which travrses across the square grid and finds shortest path anthrobot-- obstacle racing of multipods g.o.a.l. robosoccer along with image processing techniques prayaas-competition of searching new ideas

for more details regarding these and many such competitions visit