SHUBHANGI SHIFA
Ranchi, May 9: The Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India (ICFAI) University, Jharkhand organised a Hackathon under the lines of Smart India Hackathon-2022, a nationwide initiative of the Ministry of Education, Government of India.
Organised for students from Computer Science (BCA, MCA, BTech-CSE, and DIT-CSE), the event aimed at providing students with a platform to solve the problems they face in their daily lives by leveraging technology.
Several students of the university participated in the Hackathon and presented various innovative ideas in the area of product innovation and problem-solving. Two teams, ‘The Rubik’s Cube’ and ‘Arjun Group’, were shortlisted by the jury and nominated by the University for the Hackathon at a national level.
Both the teams consisted of BCA students of the fourth semester. The evaluation was based on various parameters such as novelty, complexity, clarity and detail, feasibility, practicality, consistency, the scale of impact, user experience, and future work potential.
‘Rubik’s Cube’ was led by Brijesh Pahan. The other members of the team include Khushi Shree, Rohit Tiwari, Yash Raj, Aditya Raj and Shuvina Rani. Their idea was titled ‘Video Metadata Generation and Classification’.
Meanwhile, Animesh Kumar led the Arjun Group. His idea was titled ‘Virtual Journey of Indian Pilgrims’. Amol Shahu, Abhishek Kumar, Hitesh Singh, Prateek Kumar, Shaheen Parveen and Prabjyot Kaur were members of the Arjun group.
Congratulating the shortlisted teams, Prof ORS Rao, Vice-Chancellor, University said, “Hackathons are an excellent opportunity for students to come up with innovative ideas to solve the challenges we face by harnessing the power of technology.”
The VC added, “Furthermore when students participate in teams, they learn to work in teams for problem-solving. I am impressed with both the shortlisted teams, who have done various activities like market promotion of tourism using video data management (which is a technical problem) and virtual walkthrough (which can help in effective marketing in India as well as abroad). The students also identified contemporary problems and came up with innovative solutions.”
University Registrar Prof Arvind Kumar motivated the students to prepare better so that they can win the upcoming National Hackathon Competition. The jury consisted of Dr Abhay Kumar Sinha, Dr Sandeep Kumar Modak, Prof. Prateek Biswas and Dr Saurabh Jha, all faculty members from the Department of IT.
