Prime Minister Narendra Modi will interact with students participating in the grand finale of this year's Smart India Hackathon (SIH) on Thursday.
Union Minister of State for Education Subhas Sarkar on Tuesday informed that the hackathon is a nationwide initiative to provide students with a platform to solve some of the pressing problems people face in daily lives, and thus inculcate a culture of product innovation and a mindset of problem-solving.
"Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been interacting with the student participants of the Smart India Hackathon every year since its inception and he is expected to interact with the students even this year at 8 pm on August 25," Sarkar said at a press conference. The Prime Minister will interact with the students through video-conferencing.
Development of a crime predicting model or tool for hotspot mapping using image processing and artificial intelligence and machine learning approach; transfer of multimedia data through police radio sets; optical character recognition of temple inscriptions and translations in Devanagari scripts; high resolution 3D model of terrain, infrastructure and roads conditions in disaster stuck areas and IoT enabled risk monitoring system in cold supply chain for perishable food items are among problem statements on which students are working during this year's hackathon.
The Ministry of Education is organising Smart India Hackathon software and hardware edition for more than 15,000 students. This year, Smart India Hackathon - Junior has also been introduced for school students to build a culture of innovation and problem-solving attitude at the school level, according to a Press release issued by the Ministry.