To make student life at ABS exciting and useful, the most effective way to turn the leisure time into captivating adventure is created in the form of exciting club activities. Clubs and associations at ABS offer some of the most memorable and enjoyable moments in college. There are two categories of clubs that are facilitated by the Faculty and run by the students: professional and special activity clubs.
- The following are important elements of student clubs
- A vibrant community facilitating healthy competitive culture
- Networks for alumni and the wider school community
- Opportunities to explore personal interests
- Opportunities to develop leadership potential
Activities organized by Student Clubs of ABS will include speeches by distinguished leaders, conferences, and social events that enrich the entire community and facilitate the professional growth of the students. The clubs are student run and faculty would be facilitating enough opportunities to fuel their growth. Student interaction with these clubs can be on any level – as a participant, member, or a coordinator.
The clubs are divided into professional and special interest clubs. The professional clubs include the HR club, E cell, the stock market club, and the general clubs include nature club, tourism club, and movie club.
1. Tender foot E-cell@ABS
Mission: To establish a student driven E-cell with focused students to encourage ideas to be converted into business realities
'Introduction to Entrepreneurship' Activities
General inspiration talks/guest lectures/seminars
Role models are a good way to introduce the concept of entrepreneurship. Students always relate to "real-life" examples. For instance, today in India the success of Biocon, Infosys, and Pantaloon is common knowledge to most students, whether or not they are interested in starting their own companies. Successful entrepreneurs can be invited to the campus to share their stories. Sharing experiences about their personal challenges, risks and rewards will give students a good idea about the various facets of entrepreneurship, including (but not limited to) the success/failure of a venture.
Seminars to complement entrepreneurship curriculum
As the general awareness in entrepreneurship on campus increases, the talks and lectures can be structured to enhance the students' knowledge and understanding of specific concepts. These lectures would require faculty moderation to ensure proper synthesis of the key messages. Inviting entrepreneurs from different industries (e.g. Biotech, Pharmacy, IT, Retail, Auto component manufacturing etc.) would draw attention to new opportunities and challenges in different industry spaces.
Market orientation workshop
Before coming up with a business idea, the first step is to understand the market context. The aim of this workshop would be to show how to identify an opportunity based on gaps in the market, with a view to exposing students to a needs-based approach, rather than allow for products/services to be created in isolation. People from research labs associated with large companies and multi-nationals can be invited to showcase examples of how they find and launch new products based on customer and market needs.
Idea evaluation workshop
An idea evaluation workshop would show students how to determine a real business opportunity. This workshop would showcase, with examples from entrepreneurs' life, how they got the idea, why they pursued it and the process they went through to evaluate the business opportunity. In some cases, to tie the entrepreneur's presentation with course offerings, a faculty member can layout the theoretical framework to maximize the key learning.
Business ideas competition
An easy way for students to get started is to enter a business ideas competition. Initiating this thinking process competitively would be a great incentive to attract large numbers of students and get them excited about entrepreneurship. Inviting a successful entrepreneur and other panelists for the final event would be an added incentive.
Udbhav The Business Plan Contest on 27th November 2010.
ABS in collaboration with NEN(National Entrepreneurship Network) and TIE(The Indus Entrepreneurs) holds a National Level Business Plan ContestUdbhav because we believe in celebrating the spirit of entrepreneurship and encouraging innovative business ideas that can transform into successful business enterprises. Udbhav is a platform to unleash your entrepreneurial ideas in the journey towards entrepreneurship and also win attractive prizes.
Themes for the contest: Social, Green, Rural Entrepreneurship
2. Creative Club: With more than two months of hard work, each creative club hour gives ample opportunity to budding talent and the audience/ students from other clubs alike. This year they performed live before the audience at the Seva Mela organized at Padmaraonagar where a number of NGOs from all across AP came to exhibit their products and messages. Performance by our star singer Krishna Chaitanya brought all the young and the old to the dance floor grooving to his popular numbers sung by him. Students are organizing the ABS fest 2010', which would platform to students from different undergraduate and post graduate colleges from Andhra Pradesh. Students perform Skits, street plays and plays and have set new benchmarks by creating the new music band called Aurora!
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| Jai teaching dance movements to the members | Music Band Aura performing on JGW event |
3. Stock Market Club: -Stock market club is student run club that also runs online trading games which help hone the skills of future investment bankers and portfolio analysts. Movies like Wall Street and online trading are demonstrated to students of this club by the student coordinator. Experts from Stock Market visit the campus to hold sessions and interact with the students.
