TEAMS FROM DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER ENGINEERING, JMI ENDEAVOUR REMARKABLY IN SMART INDIA HACKATHON, 2017
Navpravartak team from Department of Computer Engineering, Jamia Millia Islamia was declared the winner of “Smart India Hackathon - 2017” at Civil Aviation Training College, Allahabad
A part of Prime Minister Modi’s Digital India Initiative, the Smart India Hackathon focused on the problems of social importance identified by 29 ministries and departments of the government. They identified 598 problems, which 7,531 teams of approximately 42,000 students responded to. Of them, 1,266 teams of 10,000 participants were shortlisted for the finale.The two day event held on April 1 & 2 was aimed at harnessing the creativity and expertise of the students. The ‘Smart India Hackathon 2017’ grand finale concluded on 2nd April, 2017 at 26 locations across the country. A total of three teams participated from of our Department of Computer Engineering, Jamia Millia Islamia.
At the Civil Aviation Training College (CATC), Allahabad, one among 26 locations for ‘Smart Hackathon 2017’, 58 teams from across India participated for the 36 hour event, with students formulating solutions for improving governance and to come up with innovative solutions for India’s daunting problems.On the second day of the event, after three rounds of evaluation, Navpravartak team from Department of Computer Engineering, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi was declared winner of the “Smart India Hackathon-2017.”
Insight-JMI team from Department of Computer Engineering,Jamia Millia Islamia got the consolation prize in “Smart India Hackathon - 2017” at Gujarat Technological University (GTU), Ahmedabad
The Ahmedabad centre of the nationwide hackathon had ISRO as premier partner that had identified 35 problems areas for the participants to work on. There were 50 teams consisting of six participants with two mentors each who tackled issues such as developing a solution for document tracking within an organization network, developing a solution for protecting photocopy of highly confidential documents, designing a solution to detect physical intrusion detection, and so on. One of the two consolation prizes was achieved by Insight-JMI team from Department of Computer Engineering, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi.
MeSHyourWayOut team from Department of Computer Engineering, Jamia Millia Islamia qualified among top 8 teams in “Smart India Hackathon - 2017” at the Kolkata centre
At the Kolkata centre, the government's medical research body Indian Medical Research Institute (ICMR) conducted the grand finale of the hackathon under the aegis of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) under the HRD Ministry in collaboration. The JMI team MeSHyourWayOut from department of Computer Engineering qualified among the top 8 teams at the centre.