The formal inauguration and opening ceremony for the MCA (2022-2024) batch was scheduled on 15th October 2022. Opening & Inaugural ceremony was formally inaugurated with the lamp lightning by Vice Chairman, I.T.S-The Education Group, Sh. Arpit Chadha, Director-PR, I.T.S- The Education Group, Sh. Surinder Sood, Chief Guest, Lt. Gen. Anil Malik , Guest of honour, Capt. Felix Mohan, Dr. Burzin P Bharucha, Advisor,Ernst & Young, Director(IT&UG), Dr.Sunil Kumar Pandey and  Coordinator-MCA, Prof. Smita Kansal.

While addressing the students Director-IT&UG, Dr. Sunil Kr. Pandey said that Department is proudly welcomes the 26th batch of MCA. He said that the department always provides the opportunity to students of MCA to work on Industry projects during their studies. He said that the Department of I.T. is fortunate to have eminent speakers from industry and academia who are addressing the new members of the MCA Programme during the Orientation Programme.

Sh. Arpit Chadha, Vice Chairman, I.T.S-The Education Group while addressing the gathering congratulated the department for celebrating & welcoming the 26th Batch of MCA. He said that students are fortunate to listen & meet the guests from the leading industries who will be sharing their experience and blessing them.

While addressing these newly admitted students, all the guests greeted them and advised as how they should plan and start their journey by being focused, study and find the ways to correlate and practice the technology learned, keep participating in various events, especially Hackathons, Programming Events etc. to keep assessing themselves and working on improving every day. Guests also emphasized on keep focus on understanding the fundamentals of the key areas including Data Structures, Database Management Systems, Cloud Technology, Software Engineering Principals, Mobile Applications Development and must develop the habits of keep proper documentation even in writing small programs. Overall, it was very interactive and a day with great learning and opportunity for students to interact with them.

On Day-2 of Orientation Program of newly admitted 26th Batch of MCA (2022-2024) students were addressed and blessed by Prof. M.M Pant, Former Pro Vice Chancellor, IGNOU and Maj. Gen Shashi Asthana, SM, VSM, Global Strategic and Military Analyst, Chief Instructor - USI of India, Ex. Addl. Director General of Infantry - Indian Army. During the addresses, the behavioural aspects and its importance in professional environment was explained. In his address Prof. Pant discussed various technological advancements including Quantum Computing, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Programming environments were discussed.

On Day-3, Mr. Ved Prakash, NLP Coach, Founder,Program Your Mind interacted with the students of MCA(2022-24) batch. He discussed about the NLP which is an approach to communication and personal development that focuses on how individuals organise their thinking, feelings and language. He said that NLP has been used to assess and treat a variety of clinical symptoms, including depression, anxiety and stress.

Students of new batch also interacted with the MCA Alumni(Batch 2019-22), Mr. Vasu Sharma who discussed about the technical expectations of the corporate from the freshers. He also explained the basic fundamentals of Database and SQL which usually is asked during the recruitment process.

During the One Week Orientation Program Policy Makers of the Country, Top Industry Leaders, Entrepreneurs, Seasoned Academicians, Defence Experts, Researchers and renowned Motivational Speakers addressed and interacted with these newly admitted students. These students were sensitized with various Clubs of Dept. of IT, Entrepreneurship Cell and its activities, CSI Students Branch, Ice Breaking Sessions, Group Activitiesetc. were also planned during this One Week Orientation program.

An industry visit to New Generation Innovation & Entrepreneurship Development Center, EDII, DST, Govt, of India and MSME Business Incubation Center at I.T.S, Engineering College, Greater Noida was also organized on 20thOctober, 2022. Students were accompanied by faculty members of Department of I.T including Prof. Puja Saurabh Saxena and Prof. Smita Kansal.

The visit started with a workshop on “Cloud Computing & CISCO Technology”.  The resource person for the workshop were Dr. Vasudha & Prof. Arun from I.T.S Engineering College, Greater Noida. Students were also taken to the New Generation Innovation & Entrepreneurship Development Centre, EDII, DST, Govt.  of India and MSME Business Incubation Centre.

Coordinator of Incubation Cell also took a session about start-up and how DST and MSME help students to become an entrepreneur. Students also visited some of the live projects which were developed by the students under DST and MSME.At the end of the visit Director, I.T.S Engineering College, congratulated all the students for attending the workshop and also briefed about the working and objective of New Gen Innovation & Entrepreneurship Development Center and Incubation Center.

The five days Orientation Programme was full of new learning and meeting with the leaders from industry & academia.