Cognizance, IIT Roorkee

About Cognizance

Cognizance, the annual technical festival of IIT Roorkee, is an agglomeration of over 200 events which encompass every wavelength of an entire technical spectrum. Commenced in 2003, cognizance has emerged as the one of the largest festival of its kind in the Indian subcontinent and many of its core events witness a participation numbering in thousands.

Today it is known across the country for helping students showcase their talents at the institute level as well as in discipline specific events. In 2016, Cognizance hosted over 18000 students of more than 1200 technical and management institutes from all over the country. In addition, this year we anticipate the international participation of more than 300 students of various technical fields from across the globe. These congregations of students from various national and foreign institutes are also given company by internationally and nationally renowned experts of various spheres of academics and the corporate industry.

It is an enthralling kaleidoscope of intellectually invigorating events like Robosapiens, Model United Nations, Power Drift, Armageddon, Blogomania, Chaos, Illushun, Quizzotica, workshops, guest lectures and many more; which are designed to fuel innovation and stimulation and test rigorously the participating students. These ingredients perfectly blend into this celebration of knowledge, experimentation and learning. It witnesses a congregation of widest spectra of students from various national and foreign institutes, along with experts of international repute from the academia and industry. Apart from the events at the institute level, the students are also given a chance to showcase their talent in discipline specific events comprising of technology as well as management related fields. Cognizance has something in store for all, as in many events you can participate on the spot, exercise and tease your grey cells; and in the process make some green paper and win loads of goodies.

24th-26th March,2017, IIT-Roorkee