The Union Ministry of Human Resource Development’s Innovative Cell (MIC) and the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) will jointly organise the grand finale of Smart India Hackathon (SIH) 2023, with over 10,000 participants from across 47 nodal centers in India, from December 19 to 20.
The grand finale will also be held at H. Kempegowda Indoor Stadium at Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering (VVCE) here. VVCE has been selected as one of the four nodal centres in Karnataka. The programme will be centrally inaugurated at 9 a.m. by HRD Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.
Giving a brief overview of the event, B. Sadashivegowda, principal, VVCE, said: “A hackathon is an event where computer programmers and other interested individuals come together to improve upon or build a new software programme in a relatively short period (in about 24 or 48 hrs). The government has provided a list of pressing problems we face in our daily lives to which student teams have to come up with a solution through innovative problem-solving techniques.”
