A hackathon is an
event, usually hosted by a tech company, organization, university or AICTE where
programmers get together for a short period of time to collaborate on a project.
The participants work rapidly and often work without sleep to achieve their
task, as the events generally only last 24 to 36 hours or take place over a
weekend.
The Innovation Council
Cell of the Ministry of Education of Government in collaboration with AICTE has
started the National Level Smart India Hackathon (SIH) in 2017. SIH 2022 was a 5th consecutive nationwide competition/event organized
during August 2022 which provided a platform to solve some of the pressing
problems we face in our daily lives, and thus inculcate a culture of product
innovation and mind-set of problem solving.
SIH 2022 brings next
generation evolution to by inclusion of new methodology to inculcate the
culture of startup and innovation ecosystem across different age groups i.e.
are as follows:
SVM Institute of
Technology, Bharuch, Gujarat, India is running “HACKATHON CELL” since
2017. The cell is organizing “Internal
Hackathon Competition” for Software and Hardware Editions to nominate the
projects for National level Smart India Hackahon Competition. SVMIT has organized “Internal Hackathon SIH
2022” on 21 and 22 March, 2022. It was two days(20 hours) challenging
competition (event) for students of various engineering branches of SVMIT
including Computer engineering and IT, Mechanical, Chemical, Electrical and
Civil. This competition provided an opportunity to SVMIT students to prepare
idea, product design, development and provides solutions to real world problem
statements/challenges, we pressed in our day to day life. Total 235 students (15 Software Edition
Student Teams and 19 Hardware Edition Student Teams) from various branches of
Engineering of SVMIT have registered and participated in Internal. One of the
Software Team of SVMIT was 2nd winner up at grand finale of SIH 2022
was held on 25-26 August 2022 at Namakkal, Tamilnadu.
Hackathon Cell
Coordinator: Prof Vaishali Patel (vaishali.patel@svmit.ac.in)
