Smart India Hackathon
Ashish Upadhyay
Digital Media Planner @Madison World | Young Guns of the Year 2023 | Media Planner of the Year 2023
Smart India Hackathon 2019 is a nationwide initiative to provide students a platform to solve some of 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 engineering colleges compete for the top prize at 35+ locations.
In SIH 2019, the students would also have the opportunity to work on challenges faced within the private sector organisations and create world class solutions for some of the top companies in the world, thus helping the Private sector hire the best minds from across the nation.
What is SIH2019?
An initiative by Ministry of HRD, AICTE, Persistent Systems, i4c and Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodhini which Involves 1 Lakh+ technical students, 3000+ technical institutions, 200+ organizations from across India. It is the World's biggest Software and Hardware hackathon. This year this is the 3rd edition of highly successful Smart India Hackathon initiative. Technology Students across India compete to creatively solve problems and offer technical solutions to Harness expertise of students from IISc, IITs, NITs and AICTE/UGC approved institutions.
Themes of Hackathon
- Smart Communication - In this theme you can design devices which would help in easing communication between various communication devices and points.
- Agriculture & Rural Development - Here you can design devices keeping in consideration the need to enhance the primary sector of India in a best possible manner - Agriculture and the lives of our Rural Population.
- Food Technology - In this theme you can with innovation create state of art solutions to not only manage but also process our agriculture produce.
- Waste management - You can provide innovative solutions in the form of waste segregation, disposal, and improved transportation system.
- Clean water - You can with creativity create state-of-the-art devices to improve distribution, management and purification of water.
- Renewable Energy - You can provide innovative ideas that help manage and generate renewable sources more efficiently.
- Security & Surveillance - You can Create state-of-the-art safety and security technologies for India.
This year again NDIM is selected for Hackathon-2019 its proud moment for us again. #NDIM-SIH2019 #NDIM #hackathon