Internal Hackathon for Smart India Hackathon 2020

Smart India Hackathon 2020 (SIH) 4^th edition is a nationwide initiative to provide students with a platform to solve some of the pressing problems we face in our daily lives, and thus inculcate a culture of product innovation and a mind-set of problem-solving. SIH 2020 is the World’s Biggest Hackathon and Open Innovation model, which is an initiative by Ministry of Human Resource Development. SIH gives an opportunity to the students to work on the problems of Ministries, Industries and departments and come up with solutions. Few hundreds of problem statements submitted by various wings of ministry and industries are available on the SIH site. The best solutions for the problems will have nationwide recognition and visibility which will ultimately end up in either starting a venture or getting hired by the industries. This year the SIH idea submission process has been revised and it was mandated to conduct an internal hackathon at institute level and nominate 7 teams (5 software and 2 hardware) for SIH 2020.

In continuation of the above, a call for participation for the internal hackathon was circulated by mailto the faculty and students on 17^th December 2019 with a link for google form. A total of 52 teams (30 software and 22 hardware) registered for the internal hackathon. An evaluation of the problem statements and ideas and mentoring of the 52 teams were scheduled on 7^th and 10^th Jan 2020. Mr. DoraiThodla met all the teams and guided them accordingly for the internal hackathon participation. After the evaluation, the date for the internal hackathon was fixed as 20^th Jan 2020.

The internal hackathon for both software and hardware concurrently held at F14 and S13 seminar halls.The registered teams were asked to display their prototypes/demos and software ready by 9.00 am at F14 for software and S13 for hardware versions. A panel of Jury comprising of industry experts was invited for the evaluation of the projects. The jury members are as follows

The Jury members were briefed on the objectives of the event and rubrics for shortlisting the teams for the recommendations. The Jury was split into two panels one for software and onefor hardware and started interacting with the teams and evaluated the prototypes displays by 10.30 am. The evaluation went till 3.45 pm for software and 4.00 pm for hardware versions. Based on the selection criteria scores, the following teams were shortlisted and recommended by the panel members for the nomination of teams by the institute for SIH 2020 participation.

Shortlisted teams

Software edition

Hardware edition