1,100 students participate in virtual cultural contest

Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, November 23

Lovely Professional University (LPU) organised one of the biggest virtual cultural competition ‘Spectra-2020’. The annual ‘Inter-School Cultural Competition’ was held in three virtual rounds for 17 categories in five areas of music, dance, theatre, literary and fine arts.

Even as the campus remains shut owing to pandemic, more than 1,100 students of various programmes had registered from across the country and foreign lands for virtual showcases. A total of 450 students were selected in the second round, thereafter the finale was conducted among top six candidates shortlisted in each of the 17 categories. The school of computer science and engineering of the university has been declared ‘Overall Champion’, with the best performances of a large number of its students.

Every year, LPU schedules a variegated ‘Spectra’ fest in the first semester of a new session to identify the talent, particularly, of new students. Winners at the university are further guided to perform at bigger national-international level platforms, including AIU Nationals, Youth Vibe, One India, One World and more. In fact, the spectacular event brought forward true-artists living within would-be engineers, managers, bio-technologists, journalists, judges, and fashion designers at LPU. Inspiring all winning and participating students, LPU Chancellor Ashok Mittal invoked them to sharpen their talents under the guidance of nationally and internationally qualified instructors at the university.

In the final results, the school of computer science and engineering lifted the overall trophy of Spectra 2020; directorate of distance education was declared the first runner-up; and schools of electronics and electrical engineering and physical science and chemical engineering shared second runner-up position. The trophy for best performing school in the categories of music, dance, theatre and literary was won by the school of computer science and engineering; whereas, the best performing trophy of fine arts was won by the school of architecture and design.

The event forwarded high-spirited experience through different categories of competitions held. Music area included competitions for vocal solo, classical vocal solo, instrumental (percussion solo/ non-percussion solo), folk singing solo, and western solo vocal. For dance, competitions were for classical/ semi classical solo, folk solo, western free style solo. For theatrics, competitions were for beat boxing, histrionics, mimicry. Similarly, competitions were organised in painting, cartooning, poster making, charcoal portrait, elocution, declamation, news reading and more.