Extra Curriculars
IIT Kanpur provides an environment that nurtures leaders in addition to sound engineers. Students independently manage several club activities, national level festivals, administration of hostels and thus emerge as winner not only in national level competitions but also in their corporate life as well. This provides a platform to the students to hone their inter-personal skills and provides a holistic education.
Festivals
The National Festivals of IIT Kanpur budget around 1.5 crore provide a unique opportunity where the students can experience management lessons first hand. Right from the stage of conceptualization to final implementation the students manage everything on their own. The organizing team gets to interact and deal with corporate, celebrities and hence inculcate managerial and inter-personal skills.
Techkriti: The Global techno-entrepreneurial festival of IIT Kanpur attracts the best talent from all across the world in its competitions. Several high profile dignitaries from the field of science and technology also attend the festival.
Antaragni: The festival in its 43rd year has evolved as the biggest cultural festival in North India which witnesses more than 6000 participants. Some of the best known artists in the country from the field of music, dance, theatre and arts have been a part of the festival in the past. A team of more than 600 students works for around nine months to put up the show.
Udghosh: The national level sports festival of IIT Kanpur sees participation from all corners of the country. The festival provides a platform for the participating teams and the organizers to inculcate a sense of team work and leadership.
Inter-Hostel Competitions
The inter hall competitions see the best of friends turn into the fiercest of competitors and hence bring out the best of talents in the students.
Galaxy: The cultural championship.
Varchasva: The sports championship.
Takneek: The science and technology championship.
Impressions: The cultural event for post graduate students.
Club Activities
Club activates are managed by the students under the aegis of Students’ Gymkhana. Club activities provide the learning outside the classroom which sensitizes students to other aspects of life. Clubs organize several workshops and competitions all around the year in addition to representing IIT Kanpur at national level competitions.
Science and Technology Clubs
The Science and Technology Council has several clubs like the Astronomy Club, Business club, Electronics club, Programming club, Gliding club, Ham club, Aeromodelling Club, Photography club, Robotics Club.
Cultural Council
Cultural Council provides platform to every cultural taste through the Dance Club, Dramatics Club, Fine Arts Club, Music Club, Quiz Club, English Literary Society, Hindi Sahitya Sabha, Vivekananda Samiti and SPIC MACAY Society.
Films and Media Council:
The FMC Council manages Vox Populi-the students’ newspaper of IIT Kanpur, Meander - The Student’s Magazine, Animation club, Student’s Television Society.
Games and Sports council:
In addition the several sports and games teams the institute also has Adventure club, Tae-Kwon-Do Club, Nature club, Bridge Club and Chess club
Presidential Council:
Book Club, GLDC, Prayas (Student run social group)
E- Cell: An Entrepreneurship Cell has been established and our annual Science and Technological festival (Techkriti) has been transformed to a Technology and Entrepreneurship festival which includes a number of Business idea games and events.