Orientation Programme Day 5
Forenoon
Session 1
Dhyuthi – the NSS Club of VBIT made an interesting and interactive presentation on the various service activities conducted in and outside the Institute during the last academic year. Plantation, Blood Donation distribution of various essential items for the needy school children etc. are among the service activities that the club successfully completed.

They requested the Freshmen Engineering Students to be part of various such clubs that function with “Selfless Service” as the main motto.

Session 2
Swamy Bodhamayanada, Director, Vivekananda Institute of Human Excellence, delivered an excellent motivational talk on the topic “Mind Power and Management”, in which Swami ji emphasised the need of moulding oneself into an excellent human being by focusing on the qualities such as self development, inner engineering, society conscious, service to the needy etc. He provided the much-needed inspiration for all the Freshman Engineering Students who are the threshold of their exciting four year journey in their chosen branches of engineering.

The Afternoon Session was set rolling by Dr. G. Padmaja, Professor, Health Psychology, Hyderabad Central University who dealt with the crucial aspects of Goal Setting and Mental Well-being. She made the session highly engaging and interactive by involving the young engineering students in a dialogue. Dr. Padmaja earnestly appealed to the young undergraduates to focus on setting meaningful goals and tread on the path of achieving them cautiously avoiding all the possible threats in the process.

All the Freshmen Engineering Students were accompanied into the college ground to give them a glimpse of the excellent sporting infrastructure developed in the Institute. All the students were also encouraged to indulge in a few of the indoor and outdoor sports during the one and half hours they spent in the lush green college grounds.