Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) under the Student Affairs Department organized an All-Pakistan Event named as GIK Innovation Summit 23 on 18th, 19th and 20th November 2022 in GIK Institute. The event focused on the different aspects of the business, engineering, and medicine. It was a three-day national level event in which different universities/institutes participated in the different modules of the event. Around 200 participants from CECOS University, Institute of Space and Technology Islamabad, Khyber College of Dentistry Peshawar, KMU Institute of Dental Science Kohat, The Scholars Science College Wah Cantt, GIK Institute of Science and Technology, Beaconhouse School System Abbottabad, Benchmark School System, Concordia College, Khyber Medical College Peshawar, Tameer e Watan, Institute of Chattered Accountants of Pakistan etc participated in the event. There were total of 12 modules differentiated into two categories technical and non-technical.
The technical modules included Alchemiya, Cease the disease, RC Hovercraft, Hackathon Challenge, Speed Wiring, Rube Goldberg Machine. The non-technical modules included the maze, game of sleuth, scavenger hunt, bamboo bridge building, quick witted, chase up the tag. The participants were given tasks to write a report on the environmental changes, implanting the strategies to protect the environmental pollution, presentations, displaying complicated design based on the high precision, team building game to solve complicated problems give every possible solutions, examining a patient, history of the patient, solving multiple questions related to the case study, general knowledge of engineering and science related matters, connecting wires to form a circuit to light a bulb, building a bridge from scratch using popsicle sticks and glue etc.
A theme dinner was arranged for the participants at the faculty club, music night and a hiking trip was organized on the mountains of the GIK Institute.
The winning teams and participants were given prizes/shields/certificates on the closing ceremony of the event.
