Fresh from coming third at the recently-held hackathon challenge at Oriental University in Indore, a six-member team of BIT-Sindri was all smiles as it returned to Dhanbad on Thursday.
Organised by the Union ministry of steel,the national-level digital product building competition Smart India Hackathon 17 was held at Oriental University in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, on April 1 and 2.
Around 300 budding engineers in 57 teams from across the country wracked their brains for 36 hours at a stretch to design a variety of applications and digital products useful for the ministry of steel.
The Smart India Hackathon was simultaneously held in 26 cities across India by several ministries of Government of India and the event held at Oriental University was organised by the ministry of steel.
The six-member team of BTech third-year computer science engineering students comprised team leader Sumit Kumar Thakur, Manish Kumar Singh, Mohammed Faiz Ahmed, Shubham Kumar, Mansi Priya and Trisha Dasgupta. The students reached the institute on Thursday morning and shared their success story with the faculty members and other students of the cradle.
"All participants were given 36 hours from 8.30am on April 1 to 8.30pm on April 2 during which we had to develop a digital product useful for the ministry. We designed a mobile app called Trinetra that will help track the attendance of employees and also help the ministry create a separate database of all its workers," said team leader Sumit Kumar Thakur, while flaunting the trophy and the prize money of Rs 50,000.
Giving details about the app, Sumit said, "The app will store the Aadhar Card data of the employees including their fingerprints, through which the ministry can track the employees' attendance and other necessary details."
While the team of SRM University, Chennai, secured the first position and received a prize money of Rs 1 lakh for designing a mobile app to detect thefts, Pragati Engineering College, Peddapuram (Andhra Pradesh), came second with a cash prize of Rs 75,000 for creating an automatic switch that can turn on and off the light gauging the presence of sunlight. BIT-Sindri and BIT-Mesra bagged the third and fourth positions, respectively.
