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3 teams from Chandigarh University emerge winners at grand finale of Smart India Hackathon-2022
CU student beats hundreds of teams to solve problems by Jal Shakti Ministry, ISRO, Madhya Pradesh Police
10 teams from all across country emerge winner at SIH Grand Finale at Chandigarh University Gharuan nodal Centre
Babushahi Bureau
Mohali, August 27, 2022: In a momentous achievement, two teams of students of Chandigarh University secured first positions in the grand finale of Smart India Hackathon-2022 held across 75 institutions all over the country, as they provided a technology-driven solution to the problems faced by Union Ministry of Jal Shakti and Madhya Pradesh Police, even as another team bagged the third position, and with their application being considered by ISRO in the LULC part of their BHUVAN portal.
Team Agrocon, comprising of Chandigarh university’s CSE department students including Atul, MahakSaxena, BhuvanSharma, Shubham, Preeti Lakshmi, and Team leader Yogendra Singh, along with mentor Ankita Sharma won First Prize at the SIH’s grand finale held at Sri VenkateswaraCollege of Engineering, Andhra Pradesh.
Around 900 students from 150 teams had submitted proposals for different problems provided by the union Ministry of Jal Shakti for National Jal Shakti Mission, of which six teams were shortlisted for final round, where CU’s Team Agrocon won the first prize for providing solution to the problem statement titled ‘Android app for predicting natural occurrence’ to find the occurrence of natural disaster and act as a portal between farmers and government.
Likewise, Team Orions from Chandigarh University comprising of Mockticjoshi, Aniket Thakre, Isha Verma, Divyanshu Dobriyal, Prashant Pandey, and Team leader Siddhant Bhardwaj won First Prize at the SIH’s grand finale held at Dr B C Roy Engineering College, Durgapur, West Bengal for providing solution to the problem of Madhya Pradesh Police titled ‘Predictive analytic solutions using AI’.
A total of 247 teams had participated wherein 25 teams made it to the finals. Team Orions emerged as the winners. Both Team Agrocon and Team Orionswere awarded with the 1 Lakh rupee cash prize.
Another team of Chandigarh University’s ECE department-Shoonya, led by Subhadeep Chatterjee and comprising of Adwait, Gautam, Mayank, Safeer, and Shruti, and mentored by JebaShiney O and Dhiraj Kumar Singh won Third Prize at SIH’s grand finale at Gujarat Technological University, Ahmedabad.
A total of 240 teams participated in the competition, out of which 34 teams were shortlisted for the final round, where Team Shoonya bagged third spotfor providing solution to the ISRO’s problem statement titled: ‘Water quality from Satellite Images.
Their application and algorithm was accepted and appreciated by ISRO which will give spatial and temporal water quality of entire India and is being considered by ISRO in the LULC part of their BHUVAN portal.
Congratulating the students for this glorious achievement, Chandigarh University Pro-Chancellor Dr R S Bawa said that it is a matter of pride for the university that our students and their mentors proved their mettle at the national stage.
In this year’s edition, the SIH had offered 476 problem statements received from 62 organizations. More than 15000 students from 2033 winner teams of campus level hackathons organized under SIH-2022, participated in this year’s SIH grand finale at national level, at various assigned nodal centers.
Meanwhile, the grand finale of SIH-2022 concluded at Chandigarh University’sGharuancampus, where 10 teams were declared winners for solving 6 problem statements given by the AICTE.
As a part of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav celebrations, Chandigarh University was one of the 75 higher educational institutes and incubators identified by the Ministry of Education’s Innovation Cell and AICTE as Smart India Hackathon nodal centers to host the participants of SIH.
At the valedictory session, Dr Ravindra Soni, Advisor All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) was the chief guest, while 6 evaluation panels comprising 24 evaluators judged 139 participants from 24 teams from different parts of the country. Chandigarh University Pro-Chancellor Dr R S Bawa, Dean Academic Affairs and Nodal CenterIncharge Dr B Priestly Shan, and Shri Nitin Bhide, AICTE Representative & Nodal Center Head, along with 19 mentors were also present on the occasion.
For the problem statement involving ‘AICTE Event/Activity management system’, Team Envision Alpha from SRM Institute Of Science & Technology, Chennai, and Team Elite Coders from BVB Sardar Patel Institute Of Technology Mumbai were declared joint winners, whereas Team One_Zero from PRM College Of Engineering & Management, Maharashtra and Team_404 from Mahindra University were declared joint winners for the problem statement ‘Prediction of Admission & Jobs in Engineering & Technology with respect to demographic locations’.
For the problem statement ‘To develop integrated and robust online platform for the researchers providing the information and relevant details about national/international research grants’, Team Phoenix_2 from College Of Technology And Engineering, and Team Inevitables from Rajalakshmi Institute Of Technology were declared joint winners, whereas Team Webmasters_ISM from IIT Dhanbad and Team Serious Vale Coders from G H Raisoni College Of Engineering Nagpur were declared joint winners for the problem statement ‘Attractiveness and User Friendliness of AICTE Website’.
Team Techcoders from Institute Of Technical Education & Research was declared winner for problem statement ‘Integrated annual academic calendar for all the Indian universities’, and finally Team HexaByteXX from Thakur College Of Engineering & Technology, Mumbai was declared winner for problem statement ‘Online integrated platform for projects taken up by the students of various universities/colleges’. Each of the winning teams was given a reward of Rs 1 lakh.
Organized by the Union Ministry of Education, the SIH-2022 also witnessed Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, addressing the participants via video conferencing and exhorting them to focus on research and innovation.
"The future of India will be dependent on innovations and work done by the youth. Your innovative mindset will take India to the top. The aspirational society of India will act as a driving force for a new India. With new ideas, new aspirations and new resolutions we will move forward," Modi said, as he discussed with the students their product applications.