Smart School Hackathon
Persistent Systems and i4C have been pioneers in planning, designing, and organizing World’s biggest open innovation model - Smart India Hackathon for last 3 years. Through this initiative, we have tapped the creativity and technical skills of engineering students from across India to solve the nation’s problems.
Hackathon is fast becoming a buzz word in higher education, recruitment drives and organization level employee engagement programs. Therefore, there was felt a need to introduce the hackathon culture to younger students at school level as well.
Smart School Hackathon is a pilot edition where we are reaching out to 30-35 schools (only in Pune and PCMC area) that have Atal Tinkering Labs, Robotic Labs or similar facilities. The initiative aims to tap innovative mind and creativity of younger students studying in Class 7, 8, and 9.
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Problem Statements for Smart School Hackathon 2020
Why Join Smart School Hackathon?
- An initiative by Persistent Systems, i4c and Persistent Foundation
- First of its kind initiative involving schools from Pune and PCMC
- Designed on lines of highly successful Smart India Hackathon initiative
- Harness the facilities of Atal Tinkering Labs, Robotic Labs or similar facilities
- Tap innovative mind and creativity of younger students studying in Class 7, 8, and 9.
SPOC registration and Idea submission process
- School to appoint Single Point of Contact (SPOC); can be school principal or any nominated faculty member
- SPOC to register himself/ herself on Smart School Hackathon Google form
- SPOC to guide students to form teams of 3-4 students
- SPOC to encourage teams to select an interesting problem statement
- SPOC to mentor teams to create interesting idea to solve problem statement
- SPOC to help teams record their Idea proposal videos and upload them on YouTube
- SPOC to register teams on their behalf and submit Idea Description along with YouTube links of idea
- Unlimited teams from each school
- 3 or 4 participants in each team
- Teams can work on any one appealing problem statement