{"id":8971,"date":"2015-10-19T06:03:30","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T06:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sode-edu.in\/?p=8971"},"modified":"2015-10-20T06:31:07","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T06:31:07","slug":"team-asbestos-won-indias-biggest-education-hackfest-ibm-microsoft-grant-of-36000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sode-edu.in\/smvitm\/news-2\/news\/team-asbestos-won-indias-biggest-education-hackfest-ibm-microsoft-grant-of-36000\/","title":{"rendered":"TEAM ASBESTOS WON INDIA&#8217;S BIGGEST EDUCATION HACKFEST,   IBM-MICROSOFT GRANT OF $ 36,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/sode-edu.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/hACKFEST.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8978\" src=\"http:\/\/sode-edu.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/hACKFEST.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sode-edu.in\/smvitm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/hACKFEST.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sode-edu.in\/smvitm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/hACKFEST-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sode-edu.in\/smvitm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/hACKFEST-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sode-edu.in\/smvitm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/hACKFEST-320x213.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>Team<\/em> <strong><em>Asbestos<\/em><\/strong>, consisting <strong>Mr. Pratheek Hegde<\/strong> and <strong>Mr. Shricharan Bhat<\/strong> of VII Semester Computer Science &amp; Engineering; <strong>Ms. Amrusha<\/strong> and <strong>Ms. Sankusha<\/strong> of V Semester Computer Science &amp; Engineering and <strong>Mr. Nikhil Acharya<\/strong> of VII Semester Electronics and Communication Engineering Departments of <strong>SMVITM Bantakal<\/strong> in Udupi district won the first prize at the <strong><em>Mega State Level Education Hack Fest-Oct 2015<\/em><\/strong> held at Visvesvaraya Technological University, (VTU) Belagavi on 16 and 17 October 2015. The winning team received an IBM- Microsoft grant of 36,000 dollars and certificates as prizes<\/p>\n<p>The consecutive 24 hour event \u2013 in which around 500 students from colleges across the state affiliated to VTU participated \u2013 where the participants had to work on a problem related to the future of Indian education and Digital India initiative. The event was jointly organised by VTU and <em>Talentspear<\/em> in association with the Deshpande Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>The website of the event described it as one where participants were invited to \u201ccome together for 24 hours with the brightest minds to enhance the software development skills, team work and entrepreneurial aspirations, to evolve themselves into a better programmer, a better engineer at VTU to make something amazing.\u201d According to the website, the focus of the 24-hour <em>Hackathon<\/em> was to build new applications and products, a highly scalable and agile app or a portal. The participants were offered help and advice from engineers and software developers from start-ups to MNCs with on the ground experience.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Team Asbestos<\/em> won the first prize for presenting a solution which they called <em>Vidhya Aadhar<\/em>, an online profiling system, where the curriculum mark cards are stored digitally based on Aadhar number. The project was mentioned to be one of its kind and profusely praised by the judges for its potential to tap digital technology to enhance educational services in the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>The Management, Director, Principal and the faculty of the Institute congratulated the team on their outstanding achievement.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team Asbestos, consisting Mr. Pratheek Hegde and Mr. Shricharan Bhat of VII Semester Computer Science &amp; Engineering; Ms. Amrusha and Ms. Sankusha of V Semester Computer Science &amp; Engineering and Mr. Nikhil Acharya of VII Semester Electronics and Communication Engineering Departments of SMVITM Bantakal in Udupi district won the first prize at the Mega State<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,85,82,86,83,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accomplishments","category-cs-accomplishments","category-cs-news","category-ec-accomplishments","category-ec-news","category-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sode-edu.in\/smvitm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sode-edu.in\/smvitm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sode-edu.in\/smvitm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sode-edu.in\/smvitm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sode-edu.in\/smvitm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8971"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sode-edu.in\/smvitm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8979,"href":"https:\/\/sode-edu.in\/smvitm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8971\/revisions\/8979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sode-edu.in\/smvitm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sode-edu.in\/smvitm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sode-edu.in\/smvitm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}