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 * Techniche is a national annual technical festival held once a year at the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India. It is held in the first week of September and usually held for three days.

Events
The festival hosts a collage of events ranging from hi-tech robotics, simulation events, paper presentations, quizzes by professionals, online events, to management events like designing B-Plans and Virtual Stock Market. Robotics by far is the most interesting and popular module- ranging from manual robotics to autonomous robotics controlled fully inbuilt pre-programmed chips. PC Gaming competitions is another popular part of Techniche.

Lectures and Workshops
Apart from competitions, lectures and workshops are also held which have been taken by eminent personalities like Dr. R Chidambaram, Prof. Yashpal, Prof. R.A. Mashelkar and Prof. C.N.R. Rao. Workshops have been held in Space applications, Solar- Botics, Bioinformatics apart from many more. Exhibitions are set up to display the latest cutting edge technology to the masses. CSIR, DRDO, ISRO, DSIR, NHPC and NESAC have helped showcase their research.

Media
Techniche is well covered by Media in print and online. In 2006 EFY publications and Times of India were the media partners. EFY publications will once again will be the print media partners for Techniche 2007.

Organization
The core team works throughout the year with its activities intensifying in the last 6-7 months. The team has an events team, a marketing team, a publicity team, a web design team, a media team and an infrastructure team. The publicity team apart from sending emails, posters also travels to colleges all over India to publicize the event. The techniche website can be visited at www.techniche.in