Completed · 28 September 2026
Freshie Intro
Your gateway to innovation and leadership
The first E-Cell welcome of the year, run start to finish by students.
Freshie Intro by the numbers
- Students registered
- 125
- Departments represented
- 3
- Average rating
- 4.6/5
- Would recommend it
- 96%
5 joined on the day
16 gave five stars
from 26 responses
- Idea pitches
- 60 sec
- From start to finish
- Student-led
About the event
Freshie Intro welcomed the incoming first-year batch into E-Cell with a fast, participatory session led by the student team. From icebreakers and rapid-fire questions to a campus-focused ideation sprint, the room moved from introductions to students sharing ideas of their own.
It was an hour built to be joined in, not listened to. The core team opened with what E-Cell actually does and what it can do for a first year, then turned the room loose on an icebreaker and a rapid-fire round.
The centre of the hour was an ideation sprint: find one thing at SCSVMV worth fixing and pitch it in sixty seconds. The team closed by talking honestly about balancing college with a startup, and stayed on for open questions and a group photo.
- Date
- 28 September 2026
- Time
- 12:10 pm – 1:30 pm
- Where
- SCSVMV Central Library - Second Floor
Minute by minute
How the hour ran
12:10
Gates open, QR pass check-in
12:40
Welcome from the E-Cell core team
12:45
What E-Cell does, and what it can do for you
12:52
Icebreaker round
1:00
Ten minutes on how people actually start up
1:10
Rapid-fire round
1:18
Ideation sprint: fix something at SCSVMV, pitched in 60 seconds
1:23
Balancing college and startup life, and meeting the core team
1:27
Open questions and a group photo
1:30
Close - APEX begins at 2:30 in the same place
What the hour covered
01
What E-Cell is for
How the cell works, what it runs through the year, and where a first year fits into it.
02
How people actually start
Ten minutes on how startups really begin, told by students rather than a slide deck.
03
An idea in sixty seconds
Everyone was asked to find one thing on campus worth fixing and pitch it in a minute.
04
College and a startup, together
How to give time to both without wrecking either, from students doing it now.
From the day