Every year Vortex comes up with a new theme which strives to connect science and everyday lives making the seemingly tough concepts look easy and turn it into a fruitful, yet enjoyable way to learn. Keeping up with this tradition we have come up with a theme for Vortex 8.0, - ‘Fundamentals’.
"Fundamentals” -It is focused around the cores of all of science and its attributes. In a time where we are so much focused on the "new" and "advancements" in technology and science, we've stopped appreciating the ‘basics’ and how they govern everything.
Generation by generation, we pass down the art of application in the form of applied sciences but the love for ‘understanding’ of scientific concepts is slipping through the cracks. This past year has been a reminder; it has thrown us off and compelled us to go back to the basics- The things we usually neglected.
Vortex ICT has taken this as an opportunity to revisit the depths of science and divulge the ‘basics’ that we have forgotten. We are aiming to promote the concept of ‘ABC’ where A stands for ‘Adapt’, B for ‘Balance’ and C for ‘Control’, which has become the need of the hour.
ADAPT: The nature is always adapting; so are we. This constant, never ending process is often neglected but it literally governs our entire race. On an innate level, new technologies are adapted from previous ones.
BALANCE: Everything is balanced by design. Whenever man has tried to over-throw the balance, it has resulted in catastrophic consequences. In today’s world, we are only exploiting the nature destroying the equilibrium which needs to be maintained. Hence, Balance is of the basic concepts without which none of the scientific fields can work.
CONTROL: ‘Limitless’ seems fancy but a world without the concept of limit will not survive. Unless a limit is followed in all fields, all decisions will have severe implications.
Vortex has a plethora of competitions which not only intrigues the curiosity among students, researchers and academicians, but also helps them in developing a stance to face and efficiently solve the real-life challenges in every field. This orients them as per the demands of the industry while evoking the empathetic side, curtailing to the social needs as well, hence, striking a balance between what is needed and what needs to be done.