NE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY BUREAU
MANIPAL, JULY 21
Union Minister for HRD Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ and Minister of State for HRD will inaugurate the Smart India Hackathon 2020 through video-conference on August 1 while Prime Minister Narendra Modi will interact with the students, a release said.
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Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT), part of Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), will organize the Smart India Hackathon 2020, a nationwide initiative centrally managed by the Ministry of Human Resource Development’s Innovation Cell and All India Council for Technical Education. MIT has been selected as one of the nodal centres that will facilitate the event.
#SmartIndiaHackathon2020@#AICTEdge#AICTE & @mhrd_innovation organizes #Software & #Hardware version of #SmartIndiaHackathon every year. @SIH_2020 is a initiative to provide platform to students for solving pressing problems. #SIH2020
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“A total of 23 teams having 138 participants are competing against 6 problem statements from 3 Companies/Organizations. Manipal Institute of Technology is hosting problem statements given by BEML Limited, Bharat Electronics Limited, NCR Corporation (India) Private Limited. Each Problem statement has a winning amount of Rs. 1 lakh. This year SIH team and experts from Participating Ministries/Companies/ Organizations will centrally monitor the performance of each student innovator during the hackathon and will decide on funding their Innovation and on offering them an opportunity of internship or job at their organization,” the statement added.
Smart India Hackathon is a nationwide initiative to provide students a platform to solve some of the pressing problems we face in our daily lives, and thus inculcate a culture of product innovation and a mindset of problem-solving. Smart India Hackathon is conducted every year since 2017 in two formats i.e. SIH Software and SIH Hardware Editions. Student participants, industry representatives, and mentors, who congregated at various assigned nodal centres, attend the event
This year the SIH Software Edition is being conducted in ONLINE mode. Student participants, SIH coordinators, and industry evaluators are coming together on a digital platform designed to facilitate the implementation of the event seamlessly.
