“Boot Camp on Drone and Allied Technologies”jointly Organized by (MCA), Patna Women’s College & C-DAC Patna,

On, 31st July to 8th August, 2023 A “Boot Camp on Drone and Allied Technologies” was jointly Organized by Department of Computer Applications (MCA), Patna Women’s College & C-DAC Patna, Ministry of Electronics &Information Technology, Govt. of India.
Day 1: Inaugural Programme and Technical Session 1. The topic of Technical Session-I was
“Flight and basic principles of flight”. The resource persons for this session were Mr. Ritesh
R. Dhote, Joint Director, and Mr. Saket Kumar Jha, Principal Technical Officer, C-DAC
Patna. Various applications of drones in different fields were discussed.
Day 2: The resource person, Mr. Pradeep Madan, Project Engineer, C-DAC Patna, discussed
every aspect of the UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) Technology and explained its basic
principles and applications.
Day 3: On Day 3 of the Bootcamp, the session was dedicated to “Components of a drone and
their functions”. The resource person, Mr. Pradeep Madan, talked about building drones, and
components identification and explained the system architecture.

Day 4: On Day 4 of the Bootcamp, the topic of discussion was “Drone Designing and
Introduction to Mission Planner” and “Simulation of drones”. The resource person, Mr.
Sidhhant, Project Engineer, C-DAC Patna, explained different aspects of Aerial Robotics. He
demonstrated drone assembly to the students.
Day 5: On Day 5 of the Bootcamp, the topic of discussion was “Assembly of drones and
Drone Calibration and Drone Flying”. Mr. Pradeep Nandan explained the working and
applications of agriculture drones and surveillance drones. After that, each student got a
chance to fly the drone in the College ground.

Day 6: Mr. P. Sai Krishna, Knowledge Associate, discussed interpreting data for decision-
making and applications of AI and ML algorithms.
Day 7: Students of the MCA Department presented their ideas regarding the Applications of
Drones for various scenarios. Altogether 10 groups presented their ideas, among which
Group 1 on the topic “Greenhouse Pollination Using Drone” was the winning group.
Members of the winning group were Saloni Singh, Anushika Sinha, Sana Fatima, Srishti
Kumari, and Swarnima Mitra (MCA Semester III student). All the members of the winning
team got Laptop bags from CDAC as a token of appreciation, in the presence of Mr. Ritesh
R. Dhote, Joint Director, CDAC, and Dr. Bhawna Sinha, Head, Department of Computer
Applications (MCA), Patna Women’s College. The entire programme was coordinated by
Mr. Braj Kishor Prasad, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Applications (MCA)