In news– Smart India Hackathon 2022 to be concluded on 25th August.
What is the Smart India Hackathon?
- Smart India Hackathon (SIH) is a nationwide initiative by the Ministry of Education’s Innovation Cell to provide students a platform to solve the pressing problems of the government, ministries, departments, industries, and other organisations.
- SIH has been acclaimed as one of the “the world’s biggest open innovation models” and is conducted every year since 2017 in two formats – software and hardware editions for higher education students.
- In the 2022 edition, SIH – Junior has also been introduced as a pilot for school students to build a culture of innovation and develop problem-solving attitude at the school level.
- Under SIH – Junior, school students from 6th to 12th class are able to showcase their talent and generate out-of-the-box open innovation ideas.
- Under SIH Senior category, Regular Students of HEI’s pursuing “Graduate/Post-Graduate/Ph.D” are able to showcase their talent and generate out-of-the-box open innovation ideas.
- Theme for 2022 was ‘No problem is too big… No idea is too small’.
- A total of 2,033 winning teams of campus-level hackathons organised under SIH 2022 comprising more than 15,000 students will participate in this year’s grand finale at the national level.
- Each problem statement has a winning amount of ₹1 lakh and under the student innovation category three prizes of ₹1 lakh, ₹75,000 and ₹50,000 will be provided to the winning teams.
Source: PIB
