As Apogee is set to take the campus by storm in a few days, the discipline associations are waiting to flex their muscles of technical know-how, and the Mechanical Association is no different. The coordinator, Maharshi Mehta, is eager to share the details about the events the association is organizing this time, and the preparation behind each of them.

The Association organizes three events for Apogee-FDGP (Full Throttle Grand Prix), the Battle of Waterloo and the Junkyard Wars, all of which require the design and manufacture of tracks from scratch. FDGP is a race car event, where the cars of the teams are tested in the first round by external judges and the finalists race against each other to win exciting prizes, it being a kernel event. The Battle of Waterloo, is organized in collaboration with the RC club. A series of workshops are held where the participants are taught to build a motorboat and the boats race against each other in the institute swimming pool. The Junkyard Wars is a more drawn out and demanding event, where the teams are given a problem statement, access to the junkyard behind the workshop and thirty six hours to design and build their specimen.

The focus of the association is on keeping the students oriented towards the technical activities and enabling them to analyze projects objectively, and is different from the technical clubs by being less specific, says Mehta. He is afraid that the current trend shows a decreasing inclination towards core engineering in students, and the association is brainstorming ways to break out of this stalemate, and to come up with more intriguing activities with more involvement from juniors. There are plans to develop new experiments in the institute thermal science lab and also represent the college for the next imtex at Delhi. Mehta finds his experience with the association fruitful so far and believes it is not difficult to meet its demands, if one is sufficiently dedicated. He is keenly looking forward to the fest, to pull out new tricks out of the bag, and take the standard of the events a few notches higher.