Talented technocrats from all over the country would be converging in the BIT Mesra campus on October 26 for the Hack-A-BIT 2018-a one of its kind technical festival in Eastern India- to come up with new and innovative models that would serve the needs of society as well as companies.
The participating teams would get 36 hours to prepare their projects during the competition. Detailing about the Hack-A-BIT Dean Students welfare Dr. Mahesh Chandra said, “There is enthusiasm within the BIT campus as well as outside regarding this event. After the programme was announced 412 teams comprising 1,400 participants from different technical colleges of the country showed interest in taking part”.
Dr. Chandra said the organizing committee has decided to select 54 teams based on their ideas and abilities. Altogether 188 students from various technical institutions including BIT Mesra, IIT ISM, IIT Roorkee, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Banaras Hindu University and National Institute of Technology Raipur are participating in the competition, he added.
The dean further stated that the emphasis is on ideas that have more than one use for humans. For example, mechanism for ensuring security of women and our homes would be developed in the tech fest in view of pressing security needs of the masses. Besides, project to prevent vehicle theft from parking space is also among the themes selected for this event.
Furthermore, the students are also set to prepare models that would serve the present and future requirement of the industrial organisations.
Besides, several lectures would also be organized on software and hard ware technologies during the tech fest.
Winners would be given Rs 65,000 and other rewards. The organizers would also be providing accommodation, food and part of the transportation cost. The hardware needed for preparing the projects would also be provided to the participating teams.
The programme is being organised by the technical clubs of the institution while a several faculty members including Dr. Vijay Lakshmi, Dr DK Upadhaya and Sumit Srivastava are assisting them. A website has also been created by the organisers in this regard.