APTA Fest'19 - Insights

Team APTA Fest'19

What is APTA Fest ?

All Pakistan Tech & Art (APTA)Fest is a national level inclusive event annually organized by GCU-ACM Student Chapter of Government College University Lahore (GCU-Lahore). GCU-ACM Student Chapter is actively working in collaboration with ACM USA, to promote the awareness of IT among students. Chapter has organized many activities like Industry Visits, Programming Competitions, Seminars, and Mentor-ship for students. The chapter has provided a platform for those students who want to enhance their knowledge and skill in different areas.

The highlighted purposes to organize this APTA  Fest are:

• To bring together all the students of Art and Technology.

• Fabricate some pioneering products that can assist the society in future. 
• Promoting ourselves in the field of Art and Computing. 
• To provide the platform to the students who want to prove their skills and talents.
• To learn working in teams and manage challenging situations. 
• Interact with Industry and make good name of the institution in the market. 
• To blend students of Arts and Technology in one color to get the best out of them. 
• To work with different societies in GC University, Lahore so that a trademark festival can be based at GC University, Lahore.

So, It's the brief intro about APTA, now get to the APTA Fest'19 in which I was a piece of the squad.

Later on I was not a part of GCU-ACM Student Chapter, but I licked as a volunteer in the Finance Team for their event APTA Fest'19. At the outset I felt that my choice was wrong to go into the finance team because I desired to go into the content team. And there is a lot of abasement in finance.

اندر سے آواز آتی تھی، چنگے پھنسے آں نا اُجرے آں 
نا وسے آں

But my dear friends Ahmad Tariq who is finance head and Shahmeer who was sub-head of finance team both corporate with the team and cast a great deal of efforts to prepare this event successful. As the time passes I kept on going and acquiring experience, and see that it was a sound decision to get into Ahmad's team 🌝.

Thus, the whole APTA'19 team kept on working to get two days event splendid under the superintendence of Sir Muhammad Hafeez the adviser of GCU-ACM Student Chapter, he supported us very good.

 APTA Fest'19 was held on February 11 & 12. This event included many educational workshops and seminars for students all over Pakistan. For the sake of amusement, it also included some competitions like gaming, coding,etc. As it is also an art festival, thus on that point are some social consequences and some art festival. For this purpose some teachers was invited as a judge in digital art and sketching.

There were Microsoft Seminars after the opening ceremony. In which some guest speakers from Microsoft Pakistan were invited to speak about their experience. Other seminars included Game Development, AR, VR, etc. So, every guest speaker gave his best to train the students. There is necessary for every institution to held educational seminars for the training of their students.

Social events include Eat n click, Scavenger Hunt, etc. Art competitions included  Drawing, Sketching, Digital Art, etc. Social team has abased the finance team very well 😛😛😛.Maria Malik was the head of social team. According to Finance Head,

"ماریا آپی نے مجھے بہت اچھی طرح خوار کیا" 😆😆😆😆.

But, dear Ahmad one thing I want to state you that 

اتنا خوار ہونے کے بعد بھی تو موٹا ہے 😆 

By the way they really worked hard. 

Each person made his best to support APTA'19, especially executives of GCU-ACM Student Chapter. Ahmad Habib (President), Mueed Sajjad (Vice President), Dua Kureshi (Vice President), Taha Hussain (General Secretary),Asad Masood (Media Head), Mazhar Fareed (Society Manager), Ahmad Tariq (Finance Head), Tafseer-UL-Hassan (Information Secretary), Tooba Ahmed (Graphics Head) and  Aimen Noor (Photography Head).

GCU-ACM Executives 2018-19

The President and Vice Presidents have served this society from the beginning and their degree is almost going to be accomplished. I bid them good fortune for their future.

When I took admission in GCU in 2015, I saw the APTA'16 happening. Only happening😆😆. Immediately I found out the whole event and played as a volunteer in APTA'19. 

Graphics, Photography and Media team has the special role in the advertisement of every event. Tooba and Taha had the controls on graphics and believe me they create splendid posters, flexes, etc to attract the audience. Aimen and her team captured the every moment of APTA Fest'19 and Asad and his team kept on posting them on socail media. I saw many fights between graphics and media team. But its a part of every commitment.

ہماری ٹیم کا کام اتنا تھا کہ یونیورسٹی سے باہر جا کر ذلیل ہو کر سامان لاؤ۔ اور ہاں سامان کی رسید لازمی لانا۔ ورنہ منشی علیحدہ  سے ذلیل کرے گا اور واپس بھیجے گا رسید لینے۔

Okay Okay😆😆

Students from all over the Pakistan participated in different competitions and seminars. They learned a lot. May be they have not seen the tech and art event like this. There was a lot of interest during the two days of APTA Fest'19. So, after two days of working, come to the closing ceremony. The Head of Department Dr. Syed Asad Raza Kazmi and Adviser of GCU-ACM Student Chapter M. Hafeez was present there along with respected faculty members. HOD appreciated the whole team and their work. Every individual who served this event was given shields and certificates for their hard work. And the participants and winners of the competitions also got shields and certificates. It’s my pleasure to receive the shield from the president. Thank you everyone who voted for my work.

I want to say thanks to GCU-ACM for believing in me. I learned a lot and acquired lot of experience. And here is the APTA Fest'19 comes to an end. I wish the whole team good luck for their upcoming events. 

😆😆والنٹیر ہی سہی کام تو کیا ہے نا