On July 29, 2015; Kolpokoushal, a knowledge initiative by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) students and alumni, arranged their first event at the University of Liberal Arts. This was a demo of the workshop they arranged with 60 students from different academic backgrounds. The aim of this workshop was to teach multi-disciplinary thinking among the participants. At the end of the workshop these students applied the MIT method of development and created prototypes of different inventions. These products address different social issues and were showcased at Kolpokoushal's event.

The organisation was founded by  Nazmus Sakib; an MIT Media Lab  graduate and is currently doing his PhD. "MIT Media Lab focuses on the concept of multi-disciplinary thinking which I thought we can utilise in our own country," says Nazmus Sakib. "If you teach an engineering student product designing and teach an art major how to code. This way they will know how to tackle both sides." He also adds, "All the products showed in the event have been made by students from different sectors and as we saw they pulled it off quite nicely."

The event was held at University of Liberal Arts Campus A auditorium and it was filled with next generation prototypes. One of the prototypes which addresses a current social disaster was a product name 'Saran'. Keeping the recent Pahela Baishakh incident in mind, the team developed a software which converts data from surveillance footage into faces along with time stamps. "We aim to create state of the art computer vision technology which could be used to create accountability and transparency in our behaviour," says Avinno Faruk, one of the team members.

Other prototypes included Virtual Traffic and Crowed Control software and Togbog- an online interactive speech therapy program. One of the prototypes which was an audience favourite was 4pi- a sonic eye designed to help the blind. "The device works by sensing its objects from a distance and converting the data to sound," says Mrinmoy Sarkar, a team member. He also adds, "It will generate 3d sounds so that the user gets an estimate of where the object is located and how big it may be."

These projects were mentored by Nazmus Sakib, Ehsan Haque from University of Roysters and Tamanna Islam Urmi from MIT. The organisation and event was facilitated by Toru, and Idea Tree. "This initiative has huge potential in our country. As we are living in a world dominated by technology, we should engage in building technology more often than we do. I believe Kolpokoushal is doing a great job in inspiring the youth to get involved in technology," says Saif Kamal, Founder of Toru.