Sahyadri Team gets selected for Smart India Hackathon 2020

14-Apr-2020

Smart India Hackathon 2020 is a nationwide initiative to provide students 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 mindset of problem solving. The last edition of the Hackathon saw over 5 million+ students from various colleges compete for the top prize at 65+ locations. In SIH 2020, the students would have the opportunity to work on challenges faced within various Ministries, Departments, Industries, PSUs and NGOs to create world class solutions for some of the top organizations including industries in the world, thus helping the Private sector hire the best minds from across the nation. It can help to:
? Harness creativity & expertise of students
? Spark institute-level hackathons
? Build funnel for 'Startup India' campaign
? Crowdsource solutions for improving governance and quality of life
? Provide opportunity to citizens to provide innovative solutions to India's daunting problems
This initiative involves 2 Lakh+ students with 57,000+ ideas from 2200+ institutions against 530+ problem statements provided by 120+ organizations from across India.
This year a team of six members from Sahyadri is selected to compete in Round two of the Hardware edition of this national event. The team has to qualify two more rounds to compete for the grand prize. Team Alcatraz proposed a solution for a problem statement posed by the Department of Atomic Energy, Govt. of India via the SIH portal which got qualified for the next round among submissions from other engineering colleges across the country.
Team Alcatraz comprises of:

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