Hackathon

  • October 12, 2018

Department of CSE, VIT-AP University organized the first one day Hackathon on 8th October 2018 at VIT-AP on various themes. 86 teams and more than 330 students from various departments participated in the Hackathon. Out of 86 teams, 7 teams were selected as the winners. The Hackathon was projected to focus on the themes that tackle environmental and social issues. These seven competitive teams pitched and demoed their idea to the judges. The students used the state of the art technologies such as Cloud, Deep learning/Machine Learning, Internet of Things to build their applications. An optimal solution to OCR has been developed by one of the winning team which achieved nearly 99.5 % accuracy in recognizing the characters. The winning team was awarded with the memento. Finally, the feedback from the participants in general, judges, and faculties clearly indicated that this event was a grand success.

Schedule

  • Start Date: 8th October 2018, 9:15 A.M.
  • End date: 8th October 2018, 3:30 P.M.
  • Demo/Presentation: 3.30 P.M. t0 4.30 P.M.
  • Valedictory: 4.45 P.M.
  • Event duration: 6 Hrs
  • Venue: VIT-AP.
  • Total teams: 86
  • Total Students participated: 330 +

Winners:

  • AI Tribe
  • Hacking House
  • Ctrl Alt Elite
  • Aliferous
  • Vitality
  • Tata Coders
  • Coders