Students of Sagar Group NBA and NAAC accredited Sagar Institute of Science and Technology (SISTec), Department of Mechanical Engineering Team Hybrid Push Cart have emerged as first runner up winners in the Grand Finale of Smart India Hackathon.Smart India Hackathonis an initiative from the Ministry of Education, Govt. of India, which brings the next generation evolution by the inclusion of new methodology to inculcate the culture of startup and innovation ecosystem across different age groups. Itprovides students a platform to solve some of the pressing problems we face in our daily livesand inculcate a culture of product innovation and a mindset of problem-solving with qualifying teams moving to the Grand Finale.
At the finale location of the Western Zone MITADT University Pune 23 teams participated from All India Institutes and Colleges in the categories of Renewable Energy, Agriculture, MedTech, Heritage and Culture and Fitness. SISTec Hybrid Push Cart Team members Ankit Gupta, Uttam Kumar Yadav, Abhishek Vishwakarma, Kamta Prajapati andJyothi Singhworked on solutions to problem statements by Heritage and Culture. The team innovated to create a working model Hybrid Push Kart which was designed, developed and fabricated as the innovativesolution tothe problem stated.
The team was awarded the Student Innovation Prize of Rupees Seventy-FiveThousand and was declared First Runners up of the Grand Finale of Smart India Hackathon. The Team is supported by SISTec faculties Mr. Dheeraj Chavan, Manoj Ahirwar and Prof. Mousam Sharma mentored by faculty Sanjay Chalotre along with HoD Mechanical Department Ravishanker V Choudri. Jyoti Deshmukh Group Director SISTec and Keshvendra Chaudhary Principal SISTec have congratulated the team on the remarkable achievement of Winning the Smart India Hackathon.
It's worth mentioning here that this year Four Teams of SISTec - Team Meta, TeanGenZ, Team Invisible Minds and Team Hybrid Cart qualified for finale of the Grand Finale of Smart India Hackathon. SISTec Mechanical Department also witnessedthe presence of 46 companies in the campus drives of which 32 were core companies with Hero Moto Corp.