24-hr virtual hackathon in Mysuru on Oct. 29, 30
The Hindu
It aims to tackle challenges related to current social or business problems
Yi ‘InnovIndia: 2.0’ is the second edition of virtual hackathon conducted with the objective of providing an opportunity for students to build prototypes / App-based solutions that drive social impact and influence business transactions. The main aim is to tackle some of the challenges related to the current social or business problems.
Yi Mysuru, an arm of CII, said that it was encouraging engineering, science and business management background student innovators from all over the country to design and develop a prototype/app for social or business problems using coding or resources of their choice. The set of problem statements will be curated and shared by Yi Mysuru, said a release here.
InnovIndia: 2.0 welcomes all students from the above-mentioned background from across all Yi chapters for focused solutions and the event is open to all AICTE-recognised colleges and universities with support from anyone of their faculty as mentor, the release said.
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