Online registrations are invited for the New India Vibrant Hackathon 2023, organized by the Gujarat Knowledge Society Under the Student Start-up & Innovation Policy Education Dept. Gujarat.
Problem-solving is at the heart of innovation and entrepreneurship activities. Young students across universities & innovators are the new source of creative pursuit in any innovation ecosystem. Quite often, the vast pool of energy of young students does not get optimally used due to a lack of structured process and orientation.
One such intervention is the widely practised hackathon model. Though primarily, it is intended to engage creative minds to solve and create a proof of concept in a time-bound nonstop process, it can also be tweaked to a blended mode of execution. In such a process as a hackathon, generally, digital solutions for certain challenges are asked to be developed. But it can also be designed for developing hardware solutions by redesigning the process with suitable infrastructure, time frame and allied resources.
In academia and industry, such hackathons have been one of the key processes to trigger new thoughts and attempt to solve given challenges in the constraint of time and team efforts. In academic practice, such pedagogy is quite prominent for imbibing problem-solving ability among young students.
While taking the legacy further, the Gujarat Knowledge Society, Education Department is organizing the “New India Vibrant Hackathon 2023” under SSIP 2.0.
Though primarily the program will be designed and executed to find solutions for various challenges of the State government departments and municipal corporations, further attempts will be made to develop the mechanism and process to innovate hardware/software solutions and innovation pertaining to different challenges.
The overall objective of this program is to channel huge among of youth energy which is currently being underutilised towards engaging them with more constructive agendas and imbibe new skills and attitudes to make them problem solvers and progressive contributors in civil society at large.
Interested candidates can register through this link.
Idea/Synopsis Submission by Team October 30, 2023
ssipgujarat[at]gmail[dot]com
