BAJA SAEINDIA reaches a milestone of 10,000 plus fans on Facebook

BAJA SAEINDIA, an educational pursuit for the engineering college students, reached a milestone with its home page on Facebook registering more than 10,000 fans in just over 3 months of re-opening. The BAJA event, which is ongoing in the country for the last
4 years, is set to conclude its 5th edition next month at Pithampur, Indore.

Dr. K.C. Vora, Advisor BAJA SAEINDIA and Dy. Director & Head of ARAI Academy, ARAI, Pune, said, “Social media has become an invaluable tool in today’s communication module. With more than 800 million users, Facebook offers the largest platform to bring fans together on a global level. On BAJA India’s Facebook page, students can follow their registration updates, share ideas on the events and also garner support for their respective college teams."

Aimed to provide an opportunity for showcasing their passion for automobiles to the young, enthusiastic and talented engineering students, BAJA SAEINDIA 2012 will facilitate young talents to conceive, design and fabricate 4-wheeled single-seater all terrain vehicles. The 5th edition of BAJA SAEINDIA 2012 has seen registrations from 250 teams. The contest scheduled from 17-19 February, 2012, will see the 100 shortlisted teams competing with their dream vehicles at NATRiP site at Pithampur, near Indore, showcasing their skills, understanding and passion for automobiles.

BAJA SAEINDIA is an educational pursuit for the engineering college students, an out-of-classroom-education system, where engineering students from all over India can participate as a team, giving them pragmatic exposure to real world challenges as faced in the industry. Originally started in the USA by the SAE International as Mini BAJA SAE, today it is being organised in several countries. In India, it is being organised as BAJA SAEINDIA. An international student level competition in which teams from universities all over the world plan, design, analyze, fabricate and validate an all terrain car which is evaluated during a series of Static, Dynamic and Durability events like design, cost evaluation, presentation, acceleration, manoeuvrability, hill climb and endurance.

Through this initiative Mahindra and SAEINDIA are providing students, an innovative, hands-on and out-of-classroom education, a platform to prove their capability in designing a car, within the challenges faced by the auto industry.

The sponsors other than Mahindra include include ARAI, ANSYS, BPCL, CUMMINS, NATRiP and VARROC. ARAI, Pune is sponsoring the Engineering Design Award and ANSYS has thoroughly trained the teams in addition to providing them its simulation and design software.

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