Andhra Mahila Sabha School of Informatics

The Andhra Mahila Sabha School Of Informatics is a school of informatics for women located in Hyderabad in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India. It is an institutional member of the Computer Society of India (CSI). The CSI-AMSSOI Student Branch was established in the year 2003 bearing the code 147, under the able guidance of DVR Vithal, Fellow CSI and Shaukat A Mirza, Former Director of AMSSOI.

Andhra Mahila Sabha (AMS) was established in 1938 by the doyen of social reforms Padma Vibhushan Dr Smt Durgabai Deshmukh with the sole objective of the upliftment and empowerment of women. In the last fifty years AMS has successfully established several educational institutions, healthcare centers and hospitals, and legal assistance cells for women.

AMSSOI is one of the units of AMS which has become one of the preferred institutions for girls. Situated in the AMS campus within the Osmania University Campus, AMSSOI has well equipped labs, spacious lecture halls, well furnished library, excellent and dedicated staff and of course, a ladies hostel too.AMSSOI has a Governing body constituted as per the AICTE norms, by the President, AMS. It comprises distinguished persons from the fields of education, industry, government and social organizations.

Introduction

The CSI AMSSOI Student Branch was formally inaugurated by Sh TV Balan, Former CSI President on 5 January 2004. The School has 180 CSI Student members and 3 members of the faculty are Institutional members.

The Student Branch achieved the Best Southern Region Student Branch award in the year 2004 for its active participation. AMSSOI conducts its annual IT meet exclusively for Women ITians of MCA, Adhyayan. Adhyayan 2006 was conducted in association with its student branch. Adhyayan 2007 is proposed to be conducted as National Conference.

Adhyayan 2007

Adhyayan is an annual technical event of AMSSOI. Students from MCAdn from all over the state of Andhra Pradesh participate and eminent speakers from educational institutions and industries deliver lectures on topics of current interest. Cash awards are given to studets for Paper Contest, Project Contest, Programming Contest, IT quiz and Mock Interviews.

Adhyayan 2006, was conducted on the 13 October and 14 October at AMSSOI situated in Durgabai Deshmukh Academic Campus, Osmania University Road, Vidyanagar, Hyderabad. A preconference tutorial was conducted preceding Adhyayan 2006 on 12 October 2006 on "Software Engineering Methodologies & Testing Tools and Soft Skills".

The tutorial was inaugurated by Prof ML Saikumar. Sh G Krishna Mohan , Associate Manager-Technical Services, Applabs, delivered lecture on "Testing Tools". The Soft Skills session was handled by Sh K Subramanyam from IL&FS. The topic of the lecture was "Lateral Thinking"

This is the sixth consecutive IT meet conducted by AMSSOI and 1st IT Meet conducted in association with the CSI AMSSOI Student Branch.

It was totally a technically focussed meet, where the students were proposed to various IT related subjects, soft skills and updated IT related information.

External links

* [http://www.amssoi.org/ Andhra Mahila Sabha School Of Informatics]
* [http://www.csi-india.org Computer Society of India]