The India’s first-ever virtual 24 hour EdTech Hackathon competition was organised by leading e-learning platform-Fliplearn to challenge the technology prowess of students and Engineers and showcase their creativity with an aim to develop original and innovative solutions in the education domain.
The virtual event took place on October 17 and 18, 2020. All admitted teams had 24 hours to build creative solutions to the problems through coding, programming, design, data etc. The goal of the event was to build the future of education using technology.The competition was open for students of Class IX to XII and engineering students and professionals. ‘Hackathon 2020’ was categoriaed into two categories. Category one included students from class IX to XII, and Category two included students and professionals from engineering colleges.
‘Hackathon 2020’ received a great response from school and engineering students and professionals from across India with entries received from 100+ Schools and 20+ Engineering colleges across the country and final participation by over 320 teams with 450 plus participants.
The Hackathon saw a high degree of competitiveness and Gagan Gupta of The Millennium School, Bhatinda who won the competition in the first category was rewarded with gift vouchers worth `30,000 along with exciting gifts. In the second category, the winning team was Guna Shekhar and Aditi Singh of IIIT Gwalior.