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A display of sorts

Creative Streaks was an interesting hotchpotch of ideas

Photo: Siva Saravanan

Hit and miss For a cause

Every conceivable body part — brain, kidney, heart, mouth — was on sale: with rechargeable batteries. Modelled in clay, each of them came with a price tag and patent number. That’s Future Man for you, a stall put up by students of I B.Com (Corporate Secretaryship) at Creative Streaks: Window Display 2007, organised by GRD School of Commerce and International Business (SCIB).

A two-day event, it provided SCIB students a platform to showcase their idea of management, organisation and marketing skills. Says K.K. Ramachandran, director: “This is the 10th year of the event, and over the years, we’ve been seeing students moving from using an existing product to creating their own concepts.”

Quite a few teams cashed in on the opportunity to spread awareness on recycling, orphanages and traffic regulation, and against drugs, smoking, alcohol, pollution, global warming, and destroying wildlife. Interestingly, the SWAAT team (Students Working Against Alcohol and Tobacco) had a game of ‘Miss and Grab’, wherein one flings a hoop to miss bottles of alcohol, and win a prize. The 14-member team had lined up similar games, a video screening, and put up a confession chamber too.

The stall on orphanages juxtaposed the luxury of a child living with parents and the need-based existence of orphans.

One of the striking factors of the event was its sheer variety. On the one side, a team staged a five-minute drama on the Pirates of the Carribean, and on the other, a student explained the corporate war between Coca Cola and PepsiCo.

Students at the stock exchange stall scrolled live stock market rates, while the pet shop had everything your canine friend needed — from fancy shampoos to food. Of course, one could not have missed the quarrelling German shepherd and Dalmatian pups at the stall.

Intriguingly, a couple of stalls strove to quash common knowledge: such as the one that no man has set foot on the moon (with plenty of photographs, write-ups and video footage involving Bill Kaysing).

A few stalls threw light on how important it was for an individual to choose the right path in his life, and how one has to endure a difficult road in the quest for success.

Amidst informative and interesting stalls such as Colours of India, the Chinese house of art, the boxing ring and the history of Titanic, there were a few that had settled comfortably into simply converting their space as a shop to sell their products, with neither compelling displays nor much individual exertion.

One of the judges, Rajesh Nair, Marketing Manager of Malayala Manorama, said that the students had put in a lot of effort.

However, a few had not understood the concept well, he added. Good or otherwise, a walk around the stalls showed you what students could do in just two days!

W. SREELALITHA

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