YUKTI Innovation Challenge (YIC) 2023
12th April 2023
CSI Student Chapter and Institution’s Innovation Council (IIC), Ministry of Education (MoE), Dronacharya College of Engineering, Gurugram organized an Internal Hackathon; “YUKTI Innovation Challenge (YIC)” on 12th April, 2023. Eighteen teams from all the departments actively participated in the competition and submitted their prototypes. The event was coordinated by Prof. Pooja Sharma and judged by Innovation Ambassadors - Prof. Neha Chauhan, Prof. Neha Verma and Prof. Anupam Dalal.
YUKTI – National Innovation Repository (NIR) is an initiative to build a system of repository of ideas, innovations and startups developed in academic institutions and enabling institutions to systematically foster the I&E culture by managing and nurturing these innovations by offering continuous support in terms of one-to-one mentorship, grant assistance, referral and linkage with incubation units, connecting with Angel/Venture Capital (VC) investors network, knowledge agencies, etc.
The purpose of the contest was to provide a platform for 360-degree experiential learning journey from idea generation to venture creation through intensive training, mentoring and funding support.
The participants demonstrated hardware and software solutions to the experts. They were required to present their ideas with maximum of 3 slides and the presentation time limit was 5 minutes. From YIC Internal Hackathon 2023 total 10 teams were selected for the final YIC 2023.