The journey of Smart India Hackathon'18 started with the notice put up in our college and of-course the whatsapp messages that were doing rounds on our class groups. We had heard about this last year as our seniors had done amazing projects and also had won prizes. That was the motivation and thus started the phase of team formation. Each one approaching the other and trying to form a best team with multi-talented students! It was indeed fun! We thus landed up forming a team with each one have various technical expertise and different domains of interest. Every live or facebook session raised the bar of excitement within in and there began the process of selecting problem statements. This was a tough task, with more than 300 problem statements, selecting a task where we can contribute to build an application to the best of our abilities and more importantly learn in the process was very difficult.
But the spirit and enthusiasm of the team was high. The fact that each member was regular and on time for all the discussions regarding problem statements selection and solutions building proved the excitement 😊 We submitted three solutions, and awaited the results as each day passed by.. Eventually on 28th feb the results were announced and guided our ways to the first ladder of success!! Our idea of a web portal to document stories, historical facts and anecdotes of India’s international trade had succeeded.We were all happy and equally encouraged to bring our ideas into action. With academics and other extra-curricular activities each one of us gave atleast few hours every day to shape our design and mould it into a useful product... Then came the date of Grand Finale. We were ready with our standee, banner, tshirts and most important our application model😄
Our nodal centre was Mumbai, a 4 hour journey from Pune and unlike any other journey our 4 hours were filled with tech-talks, our design, what could be improvised. Each brain was processing to its fullest to turn the idea into a successful product. And thus arrived the day of Finale : 30th March. With a sense of honour and privilege to be able to witness such a grand Hackathon we put on our t-shirts with our names and reached the nodal centre. With the live telecast from so many colleges all across India and a inspiring opening speech boosted our confidence to develop thus removing that small pinch of nervousness within us!
We began coding for our design which was a webapp for international trade stories, with badges to encourage writers, daily updated trade news, trade related annecdotes and summaries based on articles, an intelligent assistant to guide and help on the web portal, graphs and statistics, chat rooms, OCR for uploading articles and much more.. We began developing modules one after the other and in the process did not realize that time had flown from morning to evening. After dinner we continued, though we were a little sleepy but Yoga and Zumba sessions kept us awake and going. Throughout we had mentors and reviewers reviewing and guiding and gave us deep insights into making our product. The guidance helped us understand what the industry actually needs and what should be our target audience. This was the turning point where we tried to include better summarization techniques from data available and presenting it to user in essential format thus guiding one into trade..
We also had fun interactions with a radio and news channel interviewers! The successive day began and being able to implement on the guidance received from experts energized us further. We were almost ready with a proper product until the final review commenced! The experts appreciated our efforts, the idea and implementation!! We felt a sense of satisfaction and content. Then was time for results for the final presentation. Hurray!!We rejoiced as we heard our name second in the list.. Quickly we prepared ourself for the final presentation. The presentation went well and we relaxed. Awaiting the results we felt nervous but also a sense of pride and content of getting the opportunity to witness the finale! And the announcements started with us hoping for the best.. and finally our name announced, we won the fourth prize in Department of Commerce. With immense joy we accepted the award enjoyed the moment.
I know, The article has been a long read.. But it was difficult to sum up such an amazing, learning and memorable experience in words. In this entire event we learnt team spirit, time management, industry standards and got strengthened as developers. We had fun and simultaneously learnt new technologies in the process and also realized our strong point in technology and got a chance to improve weak points in technology. Now we sincerely wish to completely develop and deploy this as an end product useful to society!!😄😄😄
Your views and comments are welcome!! 😄
We began coding for our design which was a webapp for international trade stories, with badges to encourage writers, daily updated trade news, trade related annecdotes and summaries based on articles, an intelligent assistant to guide and help on the web portal, graphs and statistics, chat rooms, OCR for uploading articles and much more.. We began developing modules one after the other and in the process did not realize that time had flown from morning to evening. After dinner we continued, though we were a little sleepy but Yoga and Zumba sessions kept us awake and going. Throughout we had mentors and reviewers reviewing and guiding and gave us deep insights into making our product. The guidance helped us understand what the industry actually needs and what should be our target audience. This was the turning point where we tried to include better summarization techniques from data available and presenting it to user in essential format thus guiding one into trade..
We also had fun interactions with a radio and news channel interviewers! The successive day began and being able to implement on the guidance received from experts energized us further. We were almost ready with a proper product until the final review commenced! The experts appreciated our efforts, the idea and implementation!! We felt a sense of satisfaction and content. Then was time for results for the final presentation. Hurray!!We rejoiced as we heard our name second in the list.. Quickly we prepared ourself for the final presentation. The presentation went well and we relaxed. Awaiting the results we felt nervous but also a sense of pride and content of getting the opportunity to witness the finale! And the announcements started with us hoping for the best.. and finally our name announced, we won the fourth prize in Department of Commerce. With immense joy we accepted the award enjoyed the moment.
I know, The article has been a long read.. But it was difficult to sum up such an amazing, learning and memorable experience in words. In this entire event we learnt team spirit, time management, industry standards and got strengthened as developers. We had fun and simultaneously learnt new technologies in the process and also realized our strong point in technology and got a chance to improve weak points in technology. Now we sincerely wish to completely develop and deploy this as an end product useful to society!!😄😄😄
Your views and comments are welcome!! 😄
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