With a vision to promote Innovation and Entrepreneurship among the students across Kerala and to create an ecosystem for a product culture, the Kerala Startup Mission hosts a yearly pitching event exclusively for college students, the Idea Fest.

Idea Fest 2019 Finals was conducted at two Locations, MBCET Trivandrum on 22nd June 2019 and at AISAT Ernakulam on 25th June 2019. Around 160 student were shortlisted from 1700 applications and got the opportunity to pitch their idea in front of the Judges.

Royal College of Engineering and Technology IEDC in association with Department of Electronics and Communication had organized a 3 day workshop on Micro Controller and Embedded Programming.

Kerala Startup Mission in association with ICT Academy Kerala organised nodal officers meet in 5 different venues across Kerala.

St Joseph's College Palai was selected as the winner of Kerala State Akshaya Oorja Award 2018 in the "Educational Institutions Category".

ST. Joseph's college of engineering and technology is organizing a two day student convention program in association with IEDC SJCET.