forpressrelease Mail to a Friend
forpressrelease Rate forpressrelease forpressrelease forpressrelease forpressrelease forpressrelease 

NEC Students to Compete in Smart India Hackathon - 18



2024-03-28 03:23:34 Education

637


Narasaraopeta Engineering College, which is located in the Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh, has got one more feature for its cap as twelve of its students have been shortlisted to participate in the 2nd Smart India Hackathon 2018. These twelve students have made their way in the 1,400 selected groups across India out of the massive total of 20,000 groups, who participated. Each of these groups consists of six students.

The idea is to bridge the digital divide in India and promote digital literacy that will further help in achieving the sustainable development and bring the comprehensive mass movement, of putting the governance within everyone?s reach, in motion.

In order to achieve the Honourable Prime Minister?s vision of Digital India, the MHRD, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), Inter-Institutional Inclusive Innovation Center (i4C), and Persistent Systems are organising the 2nd edition of Smart India Hackathon 2018. It is a unique initiative to identify new and disruptive digital technology innovations that can help in solving the challenges faced by the country.

The 2nd edition of Smart India Hackathon 2018 has two sub-editions: Software and Hardware. In software edition, the participating teams are given 36-hours to develop a software product and in hardware edition of the hackathon, the teams are given five days to build their hardware solutions. This competition would be limited to only 5 nodal centres with 20-25 teams each. The prize money for the top three winners in both the categories is:

? 1st prize - Rs. 1,00,000/-
? 1st runner-up - Rs. 75,000/-
? 2nd runner-up - Rs. 50,000/-

The idea of this Hackathon is to bring the aspiring technocrats, government and private agencies together to develop futuristic and sustainable solutions. The second edition of this technological tournament is the brainchild of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) and is being funded judged by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), NASSCOM, and others.

The Vice-chairman of Narasaraopeta Engineering College, Mr M Chakravarthi announced the news of the milestone achievement of the students from the Department of Computer Science Engineering, third year and also said that they are going to participate in two separate groups on two broad topics.

The first group representing NEC called the ?TechChamps? will be participating in the 36 Hour Smart India Hackathon-2018 at Nagpur, Maharashtra from 30th March 2018 to 31st March 2018. Their topic revolves around the development of a tracking device which can help in finding out the nearby civic amenities centres in the national highways. This device will be solving the technological obstacle currently faced by the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways in the highways development sector. The team includes K Chandrashekhar, SK Mohammad, P Srujana, T Shweta, K Kavyasri, and KR Pawan Kumar.

The second group called the ?Space Solutions? will be participating in the Hackathon at Ahmedabad, Gujarat from 30th March 2018 to 31st March 2018. Their topic revolves around the topic called ?Location-based surveillance offline-routing mobile application.? This will help in tackling the problem faced by the Department of Space (DoS) and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The team includes CH Sai, MVS Madhavi Latha, K Kusuma Bhavya, M Bharathi, A Raviteja, and G Lakshmi Priyanka.
All the twelve students were congratulated by program coordinators Dr Prakash Kodali, and Dr B Jhansi Vajram, Mr MV Koteswararao, NEC Chairman and Mr Ramesh Babu, NEC Secretary, for their unprecedented success in the field of technology.

This non-stop digital product development competition will help these tech-savvy brains to attain the most deserve success according to their potential by posing problems in front of them as letting them built the innovative solutions for them. It will also help these students through the following:
? Harnesses creativity and expertise of students
? Sparks institute-level hackathons
? Builds funnel for ?Startup India? campaign
? Crowdsources solutions for improving governance and quality of life
? Provides an opportunity to citizens to provide innovative solutions to India?s daunting problems

The Smart India Hackathon-2018 is launched to complement the Prime Minister?s vision and Central government?s initiative to digitalise all the services and also counter the problems through information technology. In order to achieve this vision, the collaboration with India?s young intelligentsia is an excellent move and these twelve NEC?s students are proving it right with their impeccable efforts and innovations.

For more details http://www.nrtec.ac.in/

Company :-Indiainvestmentworld

User :- Tulasi

Email :-tulasivala@gmail.com

Phone :---

Mobile:- -

Url :- http://indiainvestmentworld.com/






Related Post

Advertisement