{"id":13214,"date":"2018-09-19T04:22:50","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T04:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/?p=13214"},"modified":"2018-09-19T04:22:50","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T04:22:50","slug":"winners-of-the-cii-connect-hackathon-2018-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/?p=13214","title":{"rendered":"WINNERS OF THE CII CONNECT HACKATHON 2018 ANNOUNCED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Sri-Ramakrishna-Engineering-College-Coimbatore.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13215\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13215 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Sri-Ramakrishna-Engineering-College-Coimbatore-1024x720.jpg\" alt=\"Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College, Coimbatore\" width=\"598\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Sri-Ramakrishna-Engineering-College-Coimbatore.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Sri-Ramakrishna-Engineering-College-Coimbatore-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Sri-Ramakrishna-Engineering-College-Coimbatore-768x540.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Faceinews-Logo-Copy.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7654\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7654\" src=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Faceinews-Logo-Copy.png\" alt=\"Faceinews Logo - Copy\" width=\"173\" height=\"43\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Team from\u00a0<strong>Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College, Coimbatore<\/strong><strong>; Saveetha Engineering College (Chennai) &amp; Rajalakshmi Engineering College (Chennai)<\/strong>won The CII Connect HACKATHON 2018<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u201c<strong>Chief Minister\u2019s Award for Excellence in E- Governance\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0will be presented to the winners of Hackathon 2018 at CII CONNECT to be held on\u00a0September 28<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a02018.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Chennai, September<\/strong><strong>\u00a011<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a02018:<\/strong>\u00a0Confederation of Indian Industry and Tamil Nadu e-Governance Agency organized the Connect Hackathon 2018 at Tech Mahindra, Sholinganallur,Chennai. Team from<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College, Coimbatore\u00a0<\/strong><strong>; Saveetha Engineering College and Rajalakshmi Engineering College<\/strong>\u00a0won under the Artificial Intelligence; Analytics &amp; Mobility Category respectively. Winners will be presented Chief Minister\u2019s Award for Excellence in E- Governance at the CII CONNECT 2018 \u2013 India\u2019s premier ICT annual event organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in partnership with the Government of Tamil Nadu.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Around 135 teams registered through an online portal in the CII connect website. Of the 135 teams, 37 teams were shortlisted for the final event by a\u00a0jury jointly chaired by the CII Members and TNeGA Officials. The objective of Hackathon is to create excitement for professional and student developers to build solutions around a &#8220;Digital DNA&#8221; and to foster the local ecosystem. The participants came with an idea and a solution and attempt to realize it during Hackathon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p>The event had tremendous response from colleges across Tamil Nadu, with a majority participation from colleges in Tier 1 and Tier 2 cities. The team applications underwent a first round of evaluation a jury jointly chaired by the CII Members and TNeGA Officials, where evaluation criteria included novelty of the idea, complexity, clarity, feasibility, readiness, practicability, and sustainability, scale of impact, user experience and potential for future work progression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team from\u00a0Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College, Coimbatore; Saveetha Engineering College (Chennai) &amp; Rajalakshmi Engineering College (Chennai)won The CII Connect HACKATHON 2018 \u00a0\u201cChief Minister\u2019s Award for Excellence in E- Governance\u201d\u00a0will be presented to the winners of Hackathon 2018 at CII CONNECT to be held on\u00a0September 28th\u00a02018. Chennai, September\u00a011th\u00a02018:\u00a0Confederation of Indian Industry and Tamil Nadu e-Governance Agency organized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13215,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13216,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13214\/revisions\/13216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}