Skill Factory Season 05

Jago News Desk Published: 15 November 2020, 12:03 PM | Updated: 15 November 2020, 12:05 PM
Skill Factory Season 05

Skill Factory is one of the flagship events of the Dhaka University Marketing Club. It's a personal skill development program for the undergrads. It’s a complete grooming package for students to learn and evaluate their learnings at the same time. The students are being tested by their solution of a case in a group with the necessary leanings learnt from the sessions. This program aids students to prepare themselves better for their career with direct guidelines from the successful ones. Business enthusiasts from all over the country will get an opportunity to interact with some of the brilliant minds of their respective fields and learn from them directly, a press release said.

This year's 'Skill Factory' is going to be sponsored by Build Bangladesh. Though all the previous seasons took place offline, this time the 5th season is going to be held virtually to ensure the safety of all concerns. For the first time, it will be open for university students all over the country. This will be for all the business students who want to think ahead of time and want to shine brighter with the light of knowledge.

This year's Skill Factory will especially be emphasized making students familiar with the concept of Small and Medium Enterprises - SME. There will be 4 educative sessions at first. Then with the submission of some evaluating task from the participating teams, the top 6 teams will be selected. This top 6 teams will later compete to become the champion. The top 3 finalists will be given some exclusive rewards.

Event Link: https://fb.me/e/ma3OhAkl1

Registration Link: https://forms.gle/tmyP88it8BKptt5n7

Who can participate:

-Any Full-time Undergraduate Student studying in the any university of Bangladesh can participate.

How to participate:

-Registration will be open for participants from 10 November 2020 to 16 November 2020.

- Individuals can participate only as a team. Team of 3 participants is required. No individual participation is acceptable.

- All 3 members of a team should be from the same university.

- Registration Fee is BDT 300.

- Teams will have to register only once and take part in the sessions as well as the competition.

- Teams will be required to submit their solution of the case given based on a problem related to the session topics.

- Only the top 6 teams will get the opportunity to compete in the finale.

- Top 6 finalist teams will compete over a case that will be provided and will require to solve followed by a presentation.

- Based on finalist teams' solution, top 3 teams will be announced as winners.

Session Topics:

The whole season will be conducted based on one topic i.e Small & Medium Enterprise (SME) and related knowledge will be provided. Total 4 professionals will take the entire session. Each session will be conducted at 8 p.m. on respective dates.

1st Session - 18th November: Digital Content Creation Hacks

2nd Session - 20th November: Expectance of SME’s

3rd Session - 21st November: Retail Distribution Strategy

4th Session - 23rd November: SME Brand Communication

After the completion of four sessions, there would be two rounds. Qualifier Round & Final Round.

Qualifier Round: Participants will be provided with a case. The solution must be submitted by the team within a given time, through PPT slides. The best teams will qualify for the Final Round.

Final Round: The extended version of the same problem would be provided this time. In this case, the finalists have to present their ideas & solution in front of the respective judges via Google Meet.

Rewards:

All participants will be certified. And the awarded prize money to top 3 teams will be:

Champion- BDT 10,000

1st Runner Up- BDT 6,000

2nd Runner Up- BDT 4,000

Additionally, E-Learning Partner of Build Bangladesh presents ‘Skill Factory Season 05’, Bohubrihi will provide a voucher of BDT 2,000 to every individual of the winning teams. All the finalists of Skill Factory 2020 will receive 40% discounts on the courses of Bohubrihi.

Terms and Conditions:

Participants in the program will be subjected to the following terms and conditions -

• One Email account can be used only once for registration and participation.

• Participants will require to have an account on Google meet / Zoom to participate in the sessions and afterwards.

• Participants must submit within submission time to be accepted.

• The schedule is subject to change by the authorities of DUMARC and concerns for unavoidable circumstances.

• Any unfair attempt or breach of terms and conditions will result in disqualification.

• Dhaka University Marketing Club reserves the right to take any decision in any circumstances.