NIE’s Team Emerges Champs at Hackathon by Red Hat

NIE’s Team Emerges Champs at Hackathon by Red Hat

The team from National Institute of Engineering, Mysore (NIE) emerged winners of a hackathon organised by Red Hat, the US-based open source software products maker supplying to enterprises.

The three-member team included Bindu, Adith and Ghanashyam Katti from the Computer Sciences Engineering department.

Red Hat started as an enterprise Linux® provider. Now, a full-stack enterprise open source software company. 'Bit by Bit: Mind Your Byte Online Hackathon' was conducted by Red Hat to reach out to all innovators. The theme of the hackathon was "Balance For Better", i.e. making some part of people's lives more balanced.

The competition had 1,125 registrations from various institutions. The first phase of the competition after qualification required the teams to create an OpenShift account (Free Starter Tier) and run the app for which they would be awarded scores. In the second phase, based on the scores; 48 teams were shortlisted to submit their ideas for the hackathon

Finally, out of the 48, 18 teams were selected for the Last Lap conducted at the RedHat Office in Bangalore. Among the 18 finalist teams, each member of the winning team was rewarded with Amazon vouchers of Rs 10,000 and the runner-up teams received Rs 5,000 each. The winning NIE team, along with the voucher, also received special RedHat merchandise.

Expressing their delight over winning the competition, Ghanashyam Katti said, "When we heard about RedHat's bit-by-bit hackathon, we knew this was an opportunity we couldn't miss. With over 1,000 registrations in the competition, we were among the top 18 teams selected for the final round held at the RedHat Office Bengaluru where we gave a demo of our idea 'Video Conference Summarizer'. We had a very informative and enjoyable interaction with the judges where they shared their insights on our project with us. We worked really hard on the project and to get it up and running, and that's why it felt really great when we won the hackathon!"

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