Hackathon

    A Sunday well spent. We, IIITA Firefox Club along with Tech Society, IIITA organized a Hackathon at Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad. The participation was huge for a first time event,with more than 30 teams registered from our college alone. It needed both our blood and sweat to get permission, plan it out and tell people about it.

    There were two general themes presented to the participants, one was Social Welfare and the other was college related help. The ideas were quite exemplary to say the least. The best part was quite surely the brainstorming session. With ideas flowing to and fro, it made me realize the fact that the junior we are college, the more imaginative all of us tend to be. This is a sad fact but rather hard to change because of various reasons that have been discussed for a long time and are well known.

    There were quite nice ideas, some were like integrating the medical system, then there were quite some on the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. Then some focused on helping the blind. Those are just the ones I know about and helped a little out in. Some actually showed quite a promise as a product that can lead to a good entrepreneurial start-up. As I was mostly focused on helping others out, I just made a small plugin that just counts down to a date. While the idea was to count down to the nearest available blood donation camp date in your locality, I didn't have the requisite time to make it, as most was spent in organization of the event. Possibly, will make it someday soon. For now it's just a timer. You can see it on Blood donation.

There were even two robots build up, one was a search and rescue bot while other was a blind help bot.

     All the code as usual in a Hackathon is owned by the participants for use at their discretion, so you may or may not see some of them. The jury is still out on the Hackathon.