Team
Cicada Crackers from BITS Pilani with its members Rohit K Bharadwaj, Sparsh
Jain, Nayan Khanna, Keshav Sethi, Anushka Jain and Chinmay Hebbar won in
Complex Category of Smart India Hackathon with a prize of Rs 1, 00,000/- The
competition pertaining to Complex Category under the Ministry of MSME was held at
Guwahati, Assam. The team of students built a Tsunami Alert System using
Android and Web portal.
Smart
India Hackathon is a 36 Hour Nonstop product development competitive event that
was organized by the Ministry of HRD, Government of India. More than 2 Lac
students participated in various competitions from all over India with their
novel ideas to respond to various challenging problems presented by different ministries
of Government of India. The Grand Finale was held in 48 centers all over India
at the same time in which more than 34000 teams participated.