The Centurion University was selected as one of the nodal centers to facilitate the Smart India Hackathon (SIH) edition this year. Total 21 teams having 126 participants are competing against five problem statements from Indo Tibetan Border Police.
The Centurion University of Technology and Management will be hosting problem statements given by Indo Tibetan Border Police. Each problem statement has a winning amount of Rs 1 lakh. Under the student innovation category, three prizes of Rs 1 lakh, Rs 75,000, and Rs 50,000 will be provided to the winning teams. The programme will be centrally inaugurated by the Ministry of Education at 9 am on August 25.
Notably, the SIH 2022 hardware grand finale is scheduled from August 25 to 29 and the SIH 2022 software grand finale is scheduled from August 25 to 26. The SIH has witnessed huge participation from Ministries, departments, PSUs, and private organizations in providing problem statements.
The SIH 2022 has offered 476 problem statements received from 62 organizations. 2033 winner teams of campus level hackathons organized under SIH comprising more than 15,000 students will participate in this year’s SIH grand finale at national level. These teams will travel to the assigned nodal center and will work on these problem statements during grand finale of SIH 2022.
As part of Azadika Amrit Mahotsav celebrations, the Ministry of Education’s Innovation Cell and All India Council for Technical Education has identified 75 higher educational institutes/ incubators as SIH nodal centers to host the participants and facilitate an environment to conduct the SIH in its well defined and established format. At each nodal center, an officer designated by the Ministry of Education’s Innovation Cell will monitor and preside over the proceeding during the entire duration of SIH grand finale.
The PM is expected to interact with the students this year again on the evening of August 25.