Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology (SKCET), Coimbatore has been chosen by the Ministry of Education (MoE) and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) to host the Grand Finale of ‘Smart India Hackathon (SIH) 2024’ for the Fifth time, recently. The college has been chosen as one among Top 51 nodal centres across India.
The hackathon is a 36-hour, nonstop digital product development competition where student teams from across India compete to deliver innovative solutions to pressing challenges. It is conducted every year since 2017 in two formats i.e. SIH Software and SIH Hardware Editions. Each problem statement carries a winning cash prize of ₹1 lakh.
A total of 20 teams, comprising 120 participants, are competing to solve four problem statements provided by the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Panchayati Raj and the Government of NCT of Delhi.
The inauguration of this SIH 2024 Grand Finale was Presided over and initiated by Malarvizhi, Chairperson and Managing Trustee, Sri Krishna Institutions.
Selvakumar Balasubramani, Delivery Center Head, Tata Consultancy Services, Coimbatore was the Chief Guest and addressed the gathering. He emphasised the need to be curious and stated that Innovation is the need of the hour. A constant need for learning new technologies will aid in solving societal needs.
He quoted, “Through SIH, the youth power of the country is extracting the Amrit of Solutions for developed India.” He encouraged the participants to give their best in their respective problem statements and pave the way by providing digital innovative disruptive solutions for a better humanity.
Senthil Ganesh, Managing Trustee, RVS group of Educational Institutions was the Guest of Honour. Aakansha Shejal and Vaishnavi Gaikwad, Nodal Centre Heads from Pune, Dhanakoti.S, UI/UX Mentor, Arnab Chatterjee from the National Council of Science Museums, Kolkata and Krishenndu Choudhury from the National Council of Science Museums, Patna, Sundararaman, CEO, Sri Krishna Institutions, Porkumaran, Principal, SKCET and Ashoka Varthanan, Dean Innovations and Head of Mechanical Engineering were present.
Apart from hosting SIH 2024, 17 teams from Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology have been shortlisted to participate in the Grand finale of Smart India Hackathon (SIH) 2024 Software and Hardware editions in other nodal centres.
