LIFE AT SIST
Spectrum Student’s Society
SIST believes in providing students with a total education package and gives great importance towards providing extra-curricular and co-curricular activities. With the aim of continuing these student-based activities further, in 2015, The Spectrum Students’ Society was formed under the patronage of the Chairman of SIST, Mr. Jayanthan Kulasingham. The mission of the organization is to create potential undergraduates and to inculcate the values of unity and fellowship through different avenues of interest that would showcase their talents and personality skills while serving the community.
Spectrum Students’ Society comprises of five main avenues namely, Community services, Environmental Services (Green Army), Performing Arts, Sports, Visual Communication and Digital Media Avenue, and Editorial Club.
Each student of SIST is a member of the Spectrum Students’ Society giving the entire student body the opportunity to interact and socialize through these projects and this inculcates values of social responsibility, team spirit irrespective of any barrier of seniority, race or religion.
The Spectrum Students’ Society believes in change and strongly affirms the fact that there are many issues unaddressed in the society and is proud to say that the current initiatives made by the society would truly advance to create a positive impact on the society.
President – Jerome Chris Fernando
General Vice president – Manic Epa Edman
Secretary – Shevantha Keshav Leitan Kurukulasooriya
Treasurer – R.A. Ashinka Shenali Fernando
Seated form the left – Ashinka , Manic , Jerome , keshav
Standing from the left – Sadeepa , Sahana , Kaushika , Haridya , Jasra
Kavinu , Manal , Harisaai , Tharania , Maick , Poorna
SSS Board - 2024/25
President – Jerome Chris Fernando
General Vice President – Manic Epa Edman
Secretary – Shevantha Keshav Leitan Kurukulasooriya
Treasurer – R.A. Ashinka Shenali Fernando
Performing Arts Avenue
The Performing Arts Avenue of Spectrum Students’ Society is a colorful arena where students can showcase their singing, dancing, acting and musical talents and bring about artistic talents to the world. It gives them a platform to give the inner performer a chance to be highlighted and recognized. It is important to balance academics along with extracurricular activities and the Performing Arts Avenue is the perfect place to engage, interact and collect colourful memories to look back upon. The major event organized by the Performing Arts wing is the dance and music extravaganza, “SPARQUE” where the students showcase their musical and dance talent. Performing Arts also organizes cultural projects such as the annual Saraswathi pooja and the Christmas carols session.
Vice President Performing Arts – Haridhya Sundaralingam Director of Performing Arts – Poorna Sashika Jayamanna
Performing Arts Avenue
The Performing Arts Avenue of Spectrum Students’ Society is a colorful arena where students can showcase their singing, dancing, acting and musical talents and bring about artistic talents to the world. It gives them a platform to give the inner performer a chance to be highlighted and recognized. It is important to balance academics along with extracurricular activities and the Performing Arts Avenue is the perfect place to engage, interact and collect colourful memories to look back upon. The major event organized by the Performing Arts wing is the dance and music extravaganza, “SPARQUE” where the students showcase their musical and dance talent. Performing Arts also organizes cultural projects such as the annual Saraswathi pooja and the Christmas carols session.
Vice President Performing Arts – Haridhya Sundaralingam
Director of Performing Arts – Poorna Sashika Jayamanna
Community Services Avenue
The Community Service Avenue of Spectrum Students’ Society bears a social responsibility in volunteering to provide a service for the community. The mission of the Community Services avenue is to ensure a positive change within the community. Working on this aspiration that students should improve people’s lives beyond the institute, together with the committee members, all students of the Spectrum Students’ Society join together to contribute their efforts and time to make the days brighter for the forgotten or disadvantaged groups in society.
Projects organized under the community services avenue include annual elders’ home visits, cancer hospital visits, blood donation campaigns, medical forums and nutrition forums for Senior Citizens’ Club and more recently, projects related to enhancing the lives of autistic children.
Vice President Community Service – Jasra Vanisa Asmone Director of Community Service – Manal Abdul Gaffar
Sports Avenue
The Sports avenue of the Spectrum Students’ Society functions as the official regulator of all the sports related activities and events within the Spectrum Institute of Science and Technology. The objective of the avenue is to attain success through teamwork and unity under the slogan ‘success is learned, success is practiced, success is shared’. The activities of the Sports avenue often extend beyond the campus to arrange collaborations with outside organizations and institutes in organizing sports events, all the while providing a platform for other avenues within SIST for fund raising and promotion of their events. The sports avenue also functions as a vital foundation that creates bonding between the students, promoting the important concepts of unity and cooperation. The sports avenue also introduces the students to a culture of sportsmanship and promotes the maintenance of physical fitness. Annual events held by the Sports avenue include the “’SMASH” Badminton tournament, chess and carom tournaments, along with the occasional Scrabble or Sudoku tournament.
Vice President of Sports – Kaushikaa Kugathasan
Director of Sports – Harisai Neelamegam
Sports Avenue
The Sports avenue of the Spectrum Students’ Society functions as the official regulator of all the sports related activities and events within the Spectrum Institute of Science and Technology. The objective of the avenue is to attain success through teamwork and unity under the slogan ‘success is learned, success is practiced, success is shared’. The activities of the Sports avenue often extend beyond the campus to arrange collaborations with outside organizations and institutes in organizing sports events, all the while providing a platform for other avenues within SIST for fund raising and promotion of their events. The sports avenue also functions as a vital foundation that creates bonding between the students, promoting the important concepts of unity and cooperation. The sports avenue also introduces the students to a culture of sportsmanship and promotes the maintenance of physical fitness. Annual events held by the Sports avenue include the “’SMASH” Badminton tournament, chess and carom tournaments, along with the occasional Scrabble or Sudoku tournament.
Vice president of Sports – Kaushikaa Kugathasan
Director of Sports – Harisai Neelamegam
Green Army
The green army of SIST was founded with the the aim of launching mitigation and adaptation programs for climate change and to encourage achievement of sustainable development goals. Our main aims and objectives include educating the young minds on environment conservation and promoting attitude changes towards the environment. In this regard, we initiated the establishment of green army in 20 schools in Jaffna. Further, we have initiated environment conservation projects such as tree planting project, Best out of waste and Bamba goes green. Our students also participated at the COP 15 summit.
Vice President of Green Army – Sahanasri Ramachandran
Director of Green Army – Tharania Thamilselvam
Visual Communication and Digital Media Avenue
The main aim of this avenue is to establish the mass media and visual communication facilities throughout the academic year helping all the other avenues i.e. presentations, photography and so on. The Visual Communication and Mass Media is hoping to put up a studio in aid of the annual concert ‘SPARQUE 2020’. The other major events of the Visual Communication and Mass Media avenue are the photographic competition, gaming competition and also initiating a YouTube channel to promote the vocal talents of the students in spectrum.
Vice President of VCDM – M. Dinithi Sathsarani De Silva
Directors of VCDM – Anton Raj Maick Stevon
Visual Communication and Digital Media Avenue
The main aim of this avenue is to establish the mass media and visual communication facilities throughout the academic year helping all the other avenues i.e. presentations, photography and so on. The Visual Communication and Mass Media is hoping to put up a studio in aid of the annual concert ‘SPARQUE 2020’. The other major events of the Visual Communication and Mass Media avenue are the photographic competition, gaming competition and also initiating a YouTube channel to promote the vocal talents of the students in spectrum.
Vice president of VCDM – M. Dinithi Sathsarani De Silva
Directors of VCDM – Anton Raj Maick Stevon
Editorial club
The Editorial Club aims at harnessing and polishing the creative skills and intellectual writing abilities of members in the student community, faculty and community. The club publishes articles and photographs submitted by students in ‘The Spectrum’ blog and provides exposure and encouragement to individuals to express their writing skills and creative thoughts. The objectives of the club are to cultivate creative skills and innovative ideas in the form of authentic works.
Chief Editor – D.W. Rehani Sadeepa Weerakoon
Co-editor – E.A. Riveen Kaninu
Journal Club
Journal Club is an interactive session initiated by the management and students of Spectrum Institute of Science and Technology, in order to enhance the knowledge of students on different fields of research, stay updated on recent scientific developments, foster student interactions discuss and refine analytical and presentation skills. Lecturers and students gather on a weekly basis to review a research article and review article and discuss the further implications of these particular studies for experimental practice.
Journal Club is highly beneficial to students as it promotes reading and critiquing research topics which are crucial skills for undergraduates, and provides an excellent opportunity to exchange and revamp their knowledge and presentation skills. Staying updated with the latest developments in research and technology and improving skills associated with critical analysis of research articles is the objective of the Journal Club.
Journal Club
Journal Club is an interactive session initiated by the management and students of Spectrum Institute of Science and Technology, in order to enhance the knowledge of students on different fields of research, stay updated on recent scientific developments, foster student interactions discuss and refine analytical and presentation skills. Lecturers and students gather on a weekly basis to review a research article and review article and discuss the further implications of these particular studies for experimental practice.
Journal Club is highly beneficial to students as it promotes reading and critiquing research topics which are crucial skills for undergraduates, and provides an excellent opportunity to exchange and revamp their knowledge and presentation skills. Staying updated with the latest developments in research and technology and improving skills associated with critical analysis of research articles is the objective of the Journal Club.
SIST Student achievers
Over, the past years, SIST has produced many worthy aspiring scientists who are serving with passion and dedication towards the upliftment of the global scientific community.
The following is a highlight of the remarkable academic achievements made by our undergraduate students which enabled them to be awarded with the prestigious overall best academic performance and the university medals for the respective Undergraduate degree programmes.
Annual Trip
Annual Trip
Celebrating festivals
Christmas Party
The annual trip is organized by the Spectrum Students’ Society and the management. Last year, the students went on a trip to Hatton where they visited the Castle Reigh Reservoir, stayed at the Castle Reigh Resort for 2 days and were involved in various activities such as hiking.
NEW YEAR
Spectrum Institute of Science and Technology celebrates a unique national festival, the Sinhala & Tamil New Year following the customs and traditions of Sri Lanka. It is an event that showcase the students’ leadership, teamwork and event management skills. The whole college sparkles with beautiful varieties of colours as the students wear traditional clothes which emits the New Year feeling.
Eid Celebrations- Sawan feast
Organized by the students of Spectrum Institute of Science and Technology, Eid is celebrated to mark the end of the holy month of fasting and emphasizes on the gift of giving, together with piety, patience and fortitude. This is celebrated annually by hosting a Sawan feast for all members of the student body and faculty to emphasize cultural appreciation.
Realms of Life Sciences
An exhibition on Biotechnology, Biomedical Science, Molecular Biology and Microbiology
This exhibition is organized annually by aspiring young scientists of SIST for their younger brothers and sisters following their Advance Level in the science stream who need to gain knowledge about higher education and possible career opportunities abundantly found in these niche areas.
Salient Features of the Exhibition:
- Students will have an insight of the applications of Microbiology, Biochemistry, Biotechnology and Biomedical Science.
- Witness live experimentation and laboratory procedures of Biotechnology, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Plant Tissue Culture and Microbiology.
- Understand how research could contribute to the economic development and the need for Scientific Entrepreneurs for Sri Lanka.
- Free career guidance sessions.
Exhibition
Exhibition
Realms of Life Sciences
An exhibition on Biotechnology, Biomedical Science, Molecular Biology and Microbiology
This exhibition is organized annually by aspiring young scientists of SIST for their younger brothers and sisters following their Advance Level in the science stream who need to gain knowledge about higher education and possible career opportunities abundantly found in these niche areas.
Salient Features of the Exhibition:
- Students will have an insight of the applications of Microbiology, Biochemistry, Biotechnology and Biomedical Science.
- Witness live experimentation and laboratory procedures of Biotechnology, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Plant Tissue Culture and Microbiology.
- Understand how research could contribute to the economic development and the need for Scientific Entrepreneurs for Sri Lanka.
- Free career guidance sessions.
Special Training Programmes
SLAAS Biotechnology Symposia
Some of us had the delightful opportunity of participating in the 2nd and 3rd SLAAS biotechnology symposia, on the 11th and 25th of July 2019, respectively.
The 2nd Symposium, titled “Research and applications of Reproductive Biotechnology in Sri Lanka: past perspectives, current status and future trends” touched topics such as traditional and novel applications of reproductive biotechnology, animal reproductive biotechnology, exogenous and endogenous factors affecting the sperm, stem cells in reproductive biotechnology and most importantly the ethical, legal, social and religious issues relating to reproductive biotechnology. It concluded with an inspiring presentation done by Miss Sachithra Gunasekara on her pilot study on the association of serum levels of cytokines and thrombin during normal and IVF pregnancies.
The 3rd Symposium on Medical biotechnology walked us through areas such as novel recombinant vaccines and proteins, anti-cancer effects of natural products, stem cells applications in disease biology and advancements in genome sequencing technology in medicine. As a bonus, an insightful presentation was carried out on GENETECH, its gradual industrial advancement and its services to the nation.
We were privileged to listen to 4 researches carried out in Sri Lanka, namely,
- Design of a novel recombinant viral vector-based mucosal HIV vaccine strategy by Prof. Charani Ranasinghe.
- Morphological and genomic changes induced by Sanguinaria canadensis; molecular mechanism of apoptosis and oncosis by Prof. Priya Weerasinghe.
- Stem cell research in disease biology: Hemopotent stem cells, Mesenchymal stem cells, Human amniotic membrane stem cells and mouse neuronal cells by Dr. Hemali Goonasekera
- Use of Hybridoma technology for P. vivax malaria vaccine development by Prof. Preethi Udagama
Being a first-year student who is fairly new to the field, I gained ample knowledge, not just on the topics that were discussed, but on the ethics and disciplinary principles that are to be followed and the level of dedication, commitment and patience required to succeed as a scientist. I left the premises feeling inspired and motivated to engage in research activity to benefit my community and country. Therefore, I’m wholly grateful for this valuable opportunity extended by spectrum to participate and get exposed to programs that take place outside of our institute environment
Esther Swamidason EBH 2022 .
INNOVATION WORKSHOP
