The team Magnimus, a group of students of Patel Group of Institutions, has been selected for the largest digital programming competition, ‘Smart India Hackathon 2017’.
The 36 hour non-stop hackathon is said to be the world’s largest digital programming competition ever held.
During the competition the youngsters will be racking their brains to solve the problems and challenges faced by India on its digital platform. Various departments including railways to science and technology have put forward 598 problems which have to be solved by more than 10,000 youngsters.
The team from Bhopal i.e. Team Magnimus has been selected for the same. The team after clearing the regional competition and the final selection will now be facing competition with teams from across India. It is to be noted that the Smart India Hackathon 2017 is being organised by Ministry of Human Resource Development and All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE).
The competition is being organised for the engineering students to challenge their skills and also to harness the creativity of young minds.
Besides, the state level competition was held in which more than 30 lakh teams from across India participated.
The students from Computer Science and Engineering branch including Sankalp Jain, Tain Hassan and Poonam Patel, while the students from Electrics and Communication branch Harsh Gagarv and Aarti Shrivastava have made a place in the finals of Smart India Hacking.
The team Magnimus under the mentorship of team leader Shubham Mathur submitted the AlUMRIC (Aadhar link Unique Medical Record of Indian Citizen) project. Under the project, the team proposed to prepare a centralized medical database of every citizen and to provide Unique Identification Number (UIN) to each doctor.
This will help the patients to download their database or medical history through which a record of the patients with rare diseases can also be maintained.