WeHack, a hackathon contest for technical innovations, was held at at VIT.
The event, conducted by Honeywell, was organised ahead of graVITAs’18, an international technical festival and knowledge carnival.
The graVITas is held annually to tap the talent of students of VIT and to give them a platform to demonstrate their capabilities, a release said.
This year, the technical and management festival-cum-knowledge carnival will be held for three days, beginning October 12. More than 100 teams took part in the competition to arrive at solutions for problems in aviation, robots and automation.
The strategy adopted was to work out solution through simulation of processes reflecting people’s though process.
The winners
About 90 teams worked non-stop for 32 hours.
Judges selected the project from Anurag Ayush Verma, Dheeraj Kumar and Mohammed Akram Ansari for their project on aviation as the best presentation.
They received a cheque for ₹1 lakh from Abishek Alladi, Senior Technology Specialist, Honeywell. The second and third placed teams won ₹50,000 and ₹25,000 respectively.
The event was coordinated by Professors Vino, Vijayapriya and Devendranath Ramkumar, the release added.
