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Toyota Hackathon Bangalore Edition 2019- Guest of Honour Mr. Amit Kumar Saroha, Paralympian, Asian Para Games medalist, and an Arjuna Awardee
[Bengaluru, November 26th] Indian Road Safety Campaign organized the Toyota Hackathon- Bangalore Edition 2019 at RV College of Engineering Bangalore for School Students of Karnataka, 54 Schools Participated.
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Indian Road Safety Campaign is a youth-led organization started by students and alumni of IIT Delhi with a presence of 40,000+ youth volunteers across the nation working together to diminish road crash fatalities and improve on-road infrastructural damages.
Toyota Hackathon 2019- Bangalore Edition was a state-level Hackathon for the school students of Karnataka to develop implementable solutions by utilizing the intellect and ideation capabilities of the students to reduce the frequency and impact of road accidents in India.
Hackathon witnessed the participation of 1400 students and 54 schools across the state of Karnataka. Dignitaries like Shri C Mallikarjun, Joint Transport Commissioner, Government of Karnataka; Shri Gopalkrishna Goudar, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Bangalore; Smt. Tanuja Ganu, RSDE Lead at Microsoft India’s new center for Societal impact through Cloud and Artificial Intelligence (SCAI); Shri Prasanna Banavara, Technical Platform Program Manager in Intel Technology India Pvt. Ltd.; Shri Shreekrishna Bhat, Senior Technical Director, National Informatics Centre, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology graced the event.
Toyota Hackathon finale was a 36 hours event wherein the chosen top 50 teams across the state competed for bringing out the best technological innovation to supplement road safety and save lives. Out to those 50 brilliant teams, 3 teams were declared as winners.
Siddhant Attavar and Shreyas Viswanath from National Public School, Indiranagar secured the 1st position; Nobel Jaison and Jaanavi H from St. Joseph Boys High School secured the 2nd position; Dennis Philip and Tarun Narashiman have secured the 3rd position.
Mr. Deepanshu Gupta
VP, IRSC, Solve