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Spring Spree NIT Warangal - 22nd - 24th February 2013SpringSpree, sometimes written as Spring Spree and popularly known as Spree, is the annual cultural festival of the National Institute of Technology, Warangal. It is a three-day long carnival held towards the end of January or in the beginning of March every year. It is run by students and includes various cultural performancesStarted in the year 1978 by the students of National Institute of Technology, Warangal, it was an intercollegiate annual sports and cultural event held between January and March every year. That year the students with the idea of holding a small festival, which would lay down a platform for the students to showcase their skills in the areas of sports, athletics and cultural activities. Additionally, the festival was to unify a diverse student body by celebrating the culture of the regions to which they belonged along with the culture of India as a whole. It was the first college festival in southern India and was conducted every year till the end of the 90s. SpringSpree was not conducted for a few years in the early 2000s. Its revival was gradual with small fests from clubs finally giving rise to a mini cultural festival called Elysium in 2006. The revival was complete when, in 2007, SpringSpree was brought back and has since been an annual event. Currently, SpringSpree is now one of the largest cultural festival in India and will be celebrating its 27th edition in March 2013