Smart India Hackathon Software Edition
25th - 26th August 2022
The team Intimidators of Dronacharya College of Engineering, Gurugram reached the finale of SIH 2022 held on 25th - 26th August, 2022 after clearing the 2 rounds. One is the Internal hackathon and 2nd was the Idea nomination in which the ideas were evaluated by experts. 6 students and two mentors Dr. Vimmi Malhotra and Dr. Ashima Mehta were the team members of the team Intimidators. IIT(ISM) Dhanbad was the nodal centre.
A total of 19 teams across the country having 113 participants were there to search for scientific solutions to fix problems in their 36 hours of continuous hackathon sitting in the two-day mega event.
After the Local and the central Inauguration on 25th August the coding journey of 36 hours starts began. After 2 hours our mentor Dr. Helen R Sekhar gave some suggestions on the project for the improvement purpose. After first mentor round, jury round was there for the first evaluation. The Jury comprised of Deepangkar Guha, Deputy Secretary Ministry of Labour and Employment; Dr Shikha Anand, Director –National Career Service Portal; Dinesh K Dharni, Deputy Director (IS) Employment Provident Fund Organization (EPFO); Dr Helen R Sekhar, Senior Fellow (Faculty), Coordinator, National Resource Centre on Child Labour; Dr Otojit Kshetrimanyun, Fellow (Faculty), VV Giri National Labour Institute and Ashwani Kumar, Joint Director DGE, Employment Provident Fund Organization. In total there were 2 Mentor/ Training session and 3 Evaluation rounds. Shri Utkarsh Mishra – Nodal Centre Head also continuously guided the students with their problems and also made some announcements related to the evaluation rounds. Student volunteers of IIT(ISM) Dhanbad were also there for any help. On 26th August in the evening results were announced. Team Intimidators couldn’t make it to the winner but overall it was a great learning experience.
Team Information along with role:
- Rishabh Sharma – Team Leader (Frontend) CSE
- Akhilesh Garg – Backend CSE
- Tania – Backend CSE
- Nand Kumar – Frontend CSE
- Vinayak Saubhri – Frontend CSE
- Vridhi Jain – Frontend CSIT