NIT Tiruchirappalli Won Second Prize

NIT, Tiruchirappalli won second prize at Indo Singapore Hackathon 2018

Twenty teams from Singapore and India, with university and college students selected on a nationwide basis, participated in the hackathon. Each team had 3 students and a dedicated mentor. A total of  120 participants took part in the 36-hour hackathon on November 12-13, ending with the grand finale on November 14.  Nanyang Technological  University and MHRD'S Innovation Cell organized this SINGAPORE-INDIA  HACKATHON-2018 under the theme “Solution for humanity”.  Prime Minister Narendra Modi presented the awards to the winning teams of  the India-Singapore Hackathon 2018 on 15 November.  Earlier in the year, Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, during his visit to  Singapore, proposed to the Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong  that India and Singapore should organize a joint hackathon to harness and showcase the "innovation potential" of youth. High Commission of  India in Singapore facilitated the event in collaboration with  Ministries of Education and Foreign Affairs of Singapore. Problems  posed to the teams were in the areas of mapping, synchronizing the  output of diverse social media, shared digital identity verification  etc.

NIT Trichy was one among the two NITs that represented the Indian contingent and most of the other teams were from the IITs.  The members of the teams were chosen based on their programming skills. Mr Kartik Venkataran (IV year CSE), Mr Deep Bhattacharya (IV year CSE) and Mr D. Arutselvan(IV year ECE) and mentor Dr Rajeswari  Sridhar, Associate Professor and Head of Department of Computer  Science Engineering were the members of the team from NIT,  Tiruchirappalli. They were selected based on a screening process by  

the MHRD after which they underwent a 2-day orientation at IIT-Bombay before their departure to Singapore in order to equip themselves for  the Hackathon.5 teams each from both the countries were shortlisted  

for the finale.

              NIT Trichy bagged the overall 2nd prize from among both the teams with a cash award of $6,000 SGD for building an effective learning platform based on crowd sourcing and live chat for expert interaction in a Neuro-Linguistic Processing engine. The learning platform can tag topics to summarize the concepts in the form of mind  maps and give recommendations for prerequistes and related topics with links to resources.

Professor Mini Shaji Thomas, Director, NIT, Tiruchirappalli congratulated the team.