VIHAAN is 24-hour long hackathon which provides a platform to budding programmers to come up with a solution to an existing problem using technology. Students participated in a team size of up to 4 members.To add to the experience and learning quotient, each team that makes it past the hackathon were awarded various cash prizes and goodies.
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One of the primary reasons for participating in a coding hackathon is the opportunity to build innovative solutions. By working with a team of like-minded individuals, you can brainstorm new ideas, develop creative solutions to problems, and push the boundaries of what is possible.
Hackathons provide an excellent opportunity to improve your coding skills. By working on challenging projects with tight deadlines, you can hone your coding and problem-solving abilities, learn new programming languages, and gain experience working with different tools and technologies.
Participating in a hackathon can help you build your network. You'll have the chance to meet other developers, designers, and entrepreneurs who are passionate about technology and innovation. This can lead to new opportunities, partnerships, and collaborations down the road.
Many hackathons offer prizes to the winning teams, which can be a great motivator. These prizes can range from cash to tech gadgets and even job offers. If you're looking to jumpstart your career in tech, winning a hackathon can be a great way to get noticed.
Hackathons foster collaboration among participants. You'll have the chance to work with people from different backgrounds and skillsets, which can lead to new insights and ideas. Additionally, working on a team can help you develop your communication and teamwork skills, which are valuable in any industry.
Finally, participating in a hackathon can be a lot of fun! You'll have the opportunity to work on exciting projects, meet new people, and learn new things. Whether you're a seasoned developer or a novice, there's something for everyone at a hackathon.
Invite friends and devs, create a team, and put on your thinking caps while we review your entities.
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The hackathon focuses on developing innovative solutions to address the challenges faced by the education system due to the COVID-19 pandemic, including access to education, digital literacy, personalized learning, teacher training, and mental health concerns. Solutions should be feasible, scalable, sustainable, and culturally sensitive.
The G20 summit is focusing on fintech, which has the potential to transform the financial landscape and drive global economic growth. The Fintech20 track at VIHAAN 6.0 aims to address financial inclusion, regulatory compliance, digital payments, financial stability, and green finance through innovative fintech solutions.
The G20 is committed to promoting economic growth while ensuring environmental sustainability and social inclusion. The hackathon aims to identify innovative solutions that address challenges related to sustainable transportation, agriculture, clean energy, sustainable consumption, and waste reduction, with criteria including innovation, feasibility, and impact.
This track offers a chance for participants to address challenges facing India's tourism industry before the G20 summit in 2023. Participants can tackle problems related to language barriers, digitalization, immersive experiences, sustainable tourism, and MSME development.
This track focuses on addressing employment challenges in India through innovative solutions in job matching, upskilling, remote work, gig economy, and entrepreneurship/small businesses. The track aims to promote entrepreneurship, innovation, and sustainable job opportunities in India.
The Culture track of the hackathon focuses on celebrating and preserving India's diverse cultural heritage through innovative solutions, such as virtual cultural experiences, language learning, cultural preservation, and community building.
The Healthcare20 track of VIHAAN 6.0 aims to address challenges in the Indian healthcare sector, including shortage of trained staff, inadequate funding and infrastructure, and obstacles to implementing virtual healthcare and AI. Solutions are sought to improve healthcare accessibility, affordability and quality.
The Open Innovation track of the hackathon aims to provide a platform for young engineers to work on their creative ideas and solve real-world industrial problems. The focus areas include autotech, consumer tech, automation in hazardous jobs, and sports tech.
Speaker - FinTech
Founder, Fun2Do Labs (EdTech Startup), Ex-Vice President@Paytm, Startup Guru
Speaker - Security
Founder, Fun2Do Labs Ex-VP, PayTM
Speaker - Education
Founder at Pepcoding Education Private Limited
Speaker - AR/VR
Founder & CEO at echoAR (Techstars '19)
Speaker - innovation
EdTech & Mobile Apps | Products, Engineering | Founder - 1 exit, 1 fail, 1 profit | Comedian
iTrack
Entrepreneur | Speaker | Investor | Working towards creating a Borderless World for growth of Global Youth
Judge
PhD Student at Purdue University | Samsung Semiconductor | NAITS, IIT Delhi | DTU 20
Judge
SWE-II @Google | Ex-Adobe
Judge
Software Engineer at Amazon Music ML | Ex-Atlassian
Judge
CS@UIUC | Ex-Microsoft | Ex-SAP Labs | DTU'20
Unique Opportunity! Vihaan provids an unique opportunity to work on real-world problems and develop innovative solutions. Through the process of ideation, prototyping, and presenting our projects, we gained valuable skills in problem-solving, teamwork, and communication. Hemang Sinha, DTU
Exceeded my expectations! The energy and enthusiasm of the participants, mentors, and judges were contagious and created a supportive and dynamic environment. It was truly an honor to be a part of such a diverse and talented community and to witness the incredible impact that we can make when we come together to tackle global challenges. Mansi Bal, IIT Delhi
Life Changing Experience! Vihaan was a life-changing experience that I would highly recommend to anyone looking to make a positive impact in the world and grow both personally and professionally. Himanshu, DTU
Vihaan is a national level hackathon to challenge your creative potential and build innovative solutions to existing problems.
In general, It is a 2-3 days long competition which makes you come up with a technical solution to an existing problem under the topics provided. The purpose of a hackathon is for a group of programmers to work together on a collaboration project. In a hackathon, you have to code during the event although you can come up with ideas for how to proceed beforehand.
Participation is the essential part, learning is the goal. You might need a basic idea of coding though on the development side.
No, it's totally free. We only require your knowledge and enthusiasm.
Registration links are active on the website. And the Google forms must have reached you already. There is no requirement of money to register.
There is a butt load of a cash prize and swags up for grabs. Further details will be released soon. Although, last year the cash prize were around 1.5 lakhs and swags worth 5 lakhs of rupees.
You'll just need your trusty laptop and a sufficient bandwidth internet connection.
Yes, Vihaan is a team based hackathon competition and you'll need to form or be a part of a team to participate. Teaming up will help you socialize and increase your reach.
There is only one, you must be at least above 13 and are a college undergraduate or a high school student.
Nope, you're all set. Rev your engines up!
