Aug 2022
AICTE under the aegis of MHRD organizes “Smart India Hackathon” – world’s biggest Open Innovative Program which provides students a nationwide competitive platform to solve some of the pressing problems we face in our daily lives.
17 teams from our PG Programmes had participated in the first round of SIH-2022 and 4 teams had qualified in the Grand Finale and went to Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kolkata and Jaipur. The grand finale was held on 25th-26th of August, 2022 at 75 different nodal centers across India.
Our MSc (IT) team MI-6 consisting of Sahil Mansuri, Roohma Kadri, Rutvik Rana, Krunal Chotliya, Nishata Shah, Shubham Rahevar and mentor Prof. Vishal Narvani won the joint first prize (Rs. 1 lakh) in their problem definition at Presidency University, Bengaluru, Karnataka.
Feb 2022
Grand Finale of “Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav” State Level -Hackathon 2022 organised by Government of Gujarat on 10th-11th February 2023 under Student Start-up and Innovation Policy (SSIP 2.0). 6 teams from Faculty of Computer Applications and IT - PG Programme qualified the regional round dated 7th-8th October 2022 and participated in the Grand Finale.
Teams proposed solutions on domains namely NFT based solution for museum, fake profile identification for social media, speech and language recognition, automated attendance system for anganwadi and designing wearable device for women safety All the teams participated well and actively demonstrated their proposed ecosystems.
Jan 2022
The Government of Gujarat had organized a state-level "Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav Hackathon 2022". Our team of MSc (IT) - PG Programme consisting of Sahil Mansuri, Rutvik Rana, Krunal Chotaliya, Shubhamsinh Rahevar, Roohma Kadri, Nishtha Shah and mentor Prof. Vishal Narvani won the second prize (Rs. 30,000) in their problem definition NARI-(Women safety application). They developed a mobile application 'Nirbhaya' that had several SOS features like sending alert messages to emergency contacts and nearest police stations with location, shake detection, fake siren sound, getting fake calls, showing safe-unsafe areas to name a few. Additionally, they developed an application for the smart watches and a prototype of a safety wristband that worked using a SIM card and both of these can send SOS messages just like the app with or without a phone.