The Pakistan Student GOLD WIE Congress holds an important place in the IEEE community of Pakistan. This year the event was hosted by IEEE GIKI Chapter on 7^th – 9^th September 2012 when IEEE branches from all over the country gathered around the landscape environment of Tarbela, Swabi, KPK at Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology. More than 250 participants arrived before the Juma prayers through transport arranged by GIKI. The participants were provided hostel accommodations and the event was under way after the lunch break. The university was decorated with flexes representing GOLD (Graduates of the Last Decade) and WIE (Women in Engineering). A number of workshops, seminars and competitions were conducted including IEEE 802.11n, Renewable Energy Resources, Entrepreneurship Talk, Leadership Workshop, Windows 8 and Career Development, Website for Dummies, Programming Contest and Social Innovation Contest to name a few. A special IEEE GIKI module, ‘The Race to Innovation’ tested the minds of nearly 60 participants from which a team from UET came on top after 2 rounds. Recreational activities such as the Scavenger Hunt, Hiking trip and the Sky Hawk Rocket Design Competition added to the experience of the traveling participants. Dinner Night on Saturday was attended by everyone including some of the faculty members who had collaborated with IEEE GIKI Chapter students to organize an event of such high magnitude. The event saw its end with a closing ceremony on Sunday where shields and certificates were handed to the participants by the chief guest Dr. Shaukat Hameed Khan, a renowned scientist. The ceremony also saw the inauguration of the IEEE WIE subchapter of GIKI.


GIKI is well known for its multiple events throughout the calendar year to impart management skills to its students. IEEE GIKI hopes to host such a successful event again on February 2013 when it’s All Pak ‘The 5^th National Electronics Olympiad’ will be held.