Team UIET Wins in IoT Theme at Deloitte Hackathon:Technotsav 2.0

Purnoor, Chandigarh April 18, 2019

        A multistage hackathon Technotsav 2.0 was organised by Deloitte India across many Engineering colleges of the country including IITs and NITs. Team UIET Chandigarh_Hackslash comprising Tushar Srivastava, IT 6th Semester, Yuvraj, IT 6th Semester and Naman Agarwal, CSE 6th Semester bagged the first position in Internet of Things (IoT) theme. They made a web application for Intruder Detection using Face Detection technique of Machine Learning and IoT. They won prize money of Rs. 75000 and got Pre Placement Offer from Deloitte. Before Finale, 4 online rounds were conducted among 14000 participants in which there was an aptitude test for all participants, students who passed the test formed team consisting of 3 members and submitted their ideas, business case and working prototype of their respective projects.

32 Teams were shortlisted for the Finale which was organised at Hyderabad Campus of Deloitte on 15th and 16th April. There were 4 themes of the Hackathon: Data Science/Machine Learning, Internet of Things (IoT), Cognitive Automation, Blockchain. 2 teams from UIET were selected among 32 finalists and they went to Deloitte Campus at Hyderabad. Other finalist team from UIET, UIET Chandigarh_Developers got Pre Placement Interview from Deloitte. Members of the team are- Sakshi Bhakhra, IT 6th Semester, Ridhima Singla, CSE 6th Semester, Sarah Mehta, CSE 6th Semester.