Student Life
Fests
Effervescence
A grand and ceremonial environment is witnessed during this 5 day- fest where students from various colleges participate in technical as well as cultural competitions. A plethora of competitions for variegated students are compiled diverging from coding competitions, robotics workshops, hacking workshops to appealing art. Eminent and distinguished artists pave their way to embellish this grand occasion.
Aparoksha
Aparoksha is the Annual Technical Festival of IIIT Allahabad. A collaboration of, for and by tech enthusiasts, Aparoksha is a platform for technocrats to code, design and build innovative solutions to transform India into a digitally empowered society and a knowledge-based economy, all while providing a venue for self-expression and creativity.
Asmita
IIITA has excellent infrastructure for various recreational, training and competitive activities, round the year in various sports and games. The annual sports meet is a platform to provide a rich exposure to nurture the sportsmanship in the young growing minds and to indulge them in various physical activities.
Workshops, Conferences
International and IEEE Conferences have become a part and parcel of IIITA. Many eminent and honorable professors round the world aggregate to dispense their valuable knowledge. Students are exposed to cutting edge research with the successful betiding of conferences on Wireless Sensor Networks, and ARM Microcontrollers by ARM, IEEE Conferences etc. Diverse range of papers, tutorials, exhibitions are deployed to enhance learning skills of the coming future.
Student Ambassadors
The young innovative minds have always brought the institute to international prominence. Student Ambassador Programs of top notch IT firms like Google, Mozilla are held every year and this has turned out to be lucrative with IIITA bagging the student ambassador award from Google as well as Mozilla.
Societies and Clubs
Geekhaven
GeekHaven is the technical society of IIIT, Allahabad. GeekHaven consists of 9 different wings which include Web Development, Free and Open Source (FOSS), Andriod Application Development, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Cyber Security, Software Development, Design Wing and Competitive Coding Wing. Each wing has 2 coordinators and 3-5 members.
Gymkhana
The most effective student body of IIITA which takes care of mix-up. The overseer of apex campus activities, managed by extraordinary managerial skills of our students who have established themselves as the students’ representatives.
Clubs
Undeniable persistent and laborious work by the IIITA clubs throughout the year has helped the students to claim their benchmark in various fields. A total of 8 clubs behold various activities which embrace Literary, Sports, Drama, Music, Technical, Management, audio lights and Dance clubs that help to garner and bare the concealed virtuosities of students. A sheer package of film-making, arts, sports, literature is evident from the news and activities that are broadcasted.
Prayaas
An organization which erected to help impecunious children who can barely even manage a single day’s meal. The organization is a great initiative by the students and this has certainly helped many desultory people to map their track for future as well as relish their monotonous life with a small ray of hope.
Codeplus
CodePlus is a program offered at the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad (IIITA) that aims to foster an interest in competitive programming and data structures and algorithms (DSA) among its students. This is achieved through a unique Teaching Assistantship (TAship) program where senior students are selected as TAs and are responsible for organizing coding competitions, conducting training sessions and workshops, mentoring juniors, and helping them improve their coding skills.