**Colloquium** is the flagship event organized by the **Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala**. Scheduled from **17–21 February**, the event continues the tradition of encouraging innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence among students. As part of Colloquium, **Kaggle Royale** is a competitive data science challenge where participants will receive a mystery dataset and race against time to analyze patterns, engineer features, and build powerful predictive models while climbing a live leaderboard. Expect intense rank battles, last-minute upsets, and strategic submissions — where every decimal matters. This is not just about coding, but about thinking smarter than others.