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The Computer Engineering Student Activities Committee, of the Computer Engineering department at Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune. Not a club. A community built by the Computer Engineering department at VIT Pune, for the department. We run the department's events, and students from across the department run us.

CESAC sits under the department's faculty leadership. A board of executives steers it, and four verticals carry the work. The four are Technical, Media and Content, Event and Coordination, and Industry and Outreach. Everybody on it is on the People page, and every name there opens that person's own page.

Committee intake happens through the department. Every Computer Engineering student can enter what CESAC runs, whether or not they are on the committee.

The committee is reachable through the Computer Engineering department office at VIT Pune. If you have an account, the Questions tab in your console is the quickest way: the answer comes back in the same place.

Probably not. Accounts for the department's students were made ahead of time from the department's own lists, so on your first visit you only sign in. The Sign in page has a tab for making an account if yours is not there.

If the department made your account, your email is your VIT address and your password is that same address, typed again.

You are asked to choose a new one straight away, and nothing else opens until you do, because everybody in your class knows the first one.

Wherever the site ranks students, on the signed-in Standouts list and on the ranking in your console, your name is shown with your photo. It is asked for once, right after your password, and your console opens as soon as it is saved.

Your browser crops it square and shrinks it before it is sent, which also drops the location a phone photo carries. You can change it any time by pressing your photo in the bar at the top of your console.

Press Forgot password, under the password box on the Sign in page, to have a reset link sent to the address on your account. If the link does not come, or that address no longer reaches you, ask the committee: an organiser can set a temporary password on your account, and you choose your own the first time you use it.

If you first signed in with Google, GitHub or Facebook, use that same button; there is no password to reset.

Not yourself. It is what the account signs in with and what the department's lists were matched on. If it is wrong, ask the committee.

From the Events tab in your console. Entries open one event at a time, so most events are locked most of the year; when the committee opens one, the form appears there.

Attack on Token is the exception: teams register on its own form, linked from every Register button on the event page.

For an event entered in pairs, you name your partner by their VIT email. They need an account on the site, and neither of you can already be entered. Your partner sees the entry and your name on their own console; the fee, if there is one, is yours to record.

There is no payment gateway on this site. You pay by UPI from your own banking app and type the transaction reference in, and an organiser checks it against the account. Attack on Token is ₹125 per team, paid on its registration form.

Yes, once it has a date. Every event with one shows a countdown and an Add to calendar button, on the events page, on the front page, on the event's own page and in your console. Google Calendar opens with the event filled in, and the .ics file works with Apple Calendar, Outlook and phones. An event without a date says so, and the button appears when the date is set.

Hackathons, competitions, paper presentations and workshops, and publications: journal papers, conference papers, books and book chapters. Each one needs one file as proof when you add it, a PDF, PNG or JPEG of up to 4MB, and can carry three optional photos.

Each record scores a base, which is what you came away with or what kind of publication it is, plus a bonus for how far it reached, from institute to international. The whole scale is on the Ranking tab of your console, read from the same numbers the board is counted with.

A record counts from the moment it is saved. An organiser or verifier checks it afterwards.

The students the department is putting its name to, in categories the committee sets: most points, most places won, most published, and ones the committee names by hand. It is available after sign-in, with a search and 50 students per page.

It shows a name, a year, one number and a photo to signed-in members, and nothing else about you.

Only people signed in to a CESAC account can open the Standouts list and its record-summary pages. Your files, contact details and PRN remain private to you and the committee.

From the Questions tab. Give it a title in your own words and say what happened. You can have five questions waiting at once, and the answer appears under the question.

Yes. The sun and moon button in the menu bar switches it, and your browser remembers the choice. Until you choose, the site follows your device's own setting. The two event pages keep their own looks either way.

No. No analytics, no advertising, no tracking cookies, and no cookies at all until you sign in. The Privacy policy lists everything the site stores, including the five preferences it keeps in your browser.

Committee pages are filled from the committee's roster form. Ask the committee to change or remove anything on yours; organisers edit it from the console, and the change is live at once.