posted by Anil Vaidya

Some days get etched into memory by sheer magnitude of the events. Saturday, 19 June 2010 was one such day. The institute colleagues had worked diligently for several months and they achieved something special.  Two major events marked the day.
SCIT launched Executive MBA (IT) programme. It got off with a grand start with the first session on Information Security Planning, being spearheaded by highly experienced educationist, a professional from the world of security practice. The launch heralds a new beginning in the educational journey of SCIT. I am sure we look forward to more offerings from SCIT next year.
The same day we had an in-depth interactive session of our illustrious alumni with our junior batch. It was a pleasure to receive our past students back at the institute. The open interaction with the alumni was a treat for our juniors who are paving their way towards their goals. It was a credit to our alumni who participated wholeheartedly without any reservation.
It is rare that an institute gets an opportunity to match and manage such amazing events in a single day. SCIT did it, we have such capabilities and we will prove them again and again.  

posted by Anil Vaidya

June 3, 2010
Education and innovations are two words that ring a bell for me anytime, anywhere. The works of the great always spur me into doing something. Last week’s visit to APS museum displaying Charles Darwin’s notes and his books was an experience I simply cannot keep from sharing. The feelings, the emotions of reading about the ‘Origin of Species’ were beyond words. I was awestruck by his theorization of natural selection.
I went through the brochures at the museum, then read Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Edison. Somewhere, all this reading struck a familiar chord; it seemed to align with the innovative spirit that we want to light at SCIT. Our education rigour, our focus on research, the entrepreneurship drive all provide sparks needed to ignite our young minds. I long to see our students and our alumni following footsteps of the greatest of the scientists, philosophers, management gurus, industrialists, educationists and so on.
I also had the rare opportunity of visiting an exhibition of the Egyptian king Tutankhamen.  It was not the greatness of a king but his work for contemporary Egyptian society and his thought process in the backdrop of philosophical turmoil got me contemplating. In our own land we have many examples of religious and philosophical creations at very tender age.  We draw inspiration from the historical events and the people who made history. I look at them as the guiding lights illuminating my own path, prompting me to march on unhaltingly.