Question: In the mid-18th to 22nd of June, 2018, how will the final edition of the first hardware version of Smart India Hackathon 2018 be held in the country’s prestigious institutions?
(a) 12
(b) 15
(c) 10
(d) 7
Answer: (c)
Related Facts:
- On June 11th, 2018, the Ministry of HRD along with AICTE, Persistent Systems, i4C and IIT Kharagpur is all set to host the Grand Finale of Smart India Hackathon 2018 – Hardware edition.
- Smart India Hackathon 2018 is in line with the ‘Make in India’ initiative of the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi.
- It is proving to be an important vehicle for scouting new ideas and help them convert them into products and businesses.
- The SIH2018 – Hardware edition is the first of its kind innovative initiative by Ministry of HRD to provide national platform to young technical minds of India to showcase their disruptive innovations and creative products which can bring out revolutionary changes in crucial sectors like agriculture, health, clean water, waste management, automotive, smart communication, and education.
- The Hardware edition is the sub-edition of SIH2018.
- For Hardware Hackathon, 4362 team ideas were received with participation from 50000+ students across 752+ technical institutions.
- After two internal rounds of evaluations with support from industry experts, 106 teams have been shortlisted to compete under the 10 themes in the SIH2018 Hardware edition Grand Finale.
- Shri Prakash Javadekar explained that the Grand Finale of the Hardware Hackathon will be a 5 days event.
- It will take place simultaneously at 10 prestigious institutions (Nodal centers) across India – IIT Kanpur (Drones theme), IIT Kharagpur (Agriculture theme), IIT Guwahati (Rural Technology theme), CEERI Pilani (Smart Communication theme), CSIO Chandigarh (Healthcare theme), IISc Bengaluru (Smart Vehicles theme), IIT Roorkee (Clean water theme), NIT Trichy (Waste Management theme), COEP Pune (Security theme), and Forge Coimbatore (Import Substitution theme).
- The top 3 winning teams under each theme will stand to win cash prizes – Rs 1,00,000/- to Winning team, Rs 75,000/- to First Runner up team and Rs 50,000/- to Second Runner up team.
- The Grand Finale for Software edition has already been successfully completed on Mar 30 & 31, 2018 at 28 nodal centers and now winning teams have started working on further enhancing their projects.
Reference:
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