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CHENNAI, OCT. 10. A solar water distillation plant, model tower cranes, a groundnut de-sheller, and a platoon of remote-controlled robots: Shaastra 2004, Indian Institute of Technology-Madras's technological festival, is all about innovation. On the closing day today, students had a video-conferencing sessions with U.S-based scientist, Stephen Wolfram; brain and cognition expert, V.S. Ramachandran from the University of California, San Diego, and astrophysicist, Srinivas Kulkarni from Caltech, U.S.A. "Last year we had around 400 outstation guests on the campus. This year we had 700, and 200 living off-campus," said organiser, Jaiwardhan Gupta. Karthik Subramani, student and team member in charge of sponsorship, said evidence of Shaastra's success was the number of companies that had volunteered to sponsor the events. "It is growing exponentially," said Vineet Punoose, an IIT-ian, who with Vikramam V.S., won internships with General Electric (Bangalore) in an event. The highlight of the fest was the tensegrity tower. Designed by five students with assistance from their professor, V. Kalyanaraman, it has a communications transmitter fixed on top. In the auditorium, quiz teams pitted their wits against each other in the finals of the Shaastra Main Quiz. But then there were some complaints as well. "There are hardly any events related to biology," said Gaurav Gandhi, a bioengineering student from Sastha Institute of Engineering and Technology. Outstation guests too were unhappy with the delay in schedules and the mosquito problem in hostels.
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