The aim of the hackathon was to provide a platform for students to develop products
1st prize winning team - Syed Abdul Kalam, Abdul Sohail and Syed Faraz Ahmed
1st prize winning team - Syed Abdul Kalam, Abdul Sohail and Syed Faraz Ahmed
The winning ideas at the Muffakam Jah College of Engineering and Technology hackathon were not only inspiring but relevant too
Muffakam Jah College of Engineering and Technology started the month with a hackathon that saw participation from over 12 colleges. Aarshad Devani, a fourth-year student of the Computer Science and Engineering department, who was one of the coordinators, says, “We had about 60 registrations and shortlisted 32. The aim of the hackathon was to provide a platform for students to develop products and gain exposure.”
1st prize: Find your medicine in no time
How many times have you been prescribed a medicine that’s not easily available in shops and you spend hours going from one shop to another? Syed Abdul Kalam, Abdul Sohail and Syed Faraz Ahmed, fourth-year students of MJCET, had the same problem and they came up a solution. Their web app, Capsule Finder, which runs on all devices, helps you locate the nearest medical shop with the required medicine. Kalam says, “You just need to enter the medicine’s name and the app will give you the directions to the nearest medical shop that stocks the medicine. It will also show how many tablets are available. And if the shop is closed, it will reroute you to the next nearest shop.”
2nd prize: The e-raddiwaalas
We have all grown up with raddiwalas knocking on our doors, to buy old newspapers. Now, Mohammed Abdul Khaled and Syeda Ayeen Uz Zehra, third-year IT students, have taken it a notch higher. About their website e-raddiwaala, Khaled says, “There are so many electronic items in your house that you don’t use but you still don’t discard them. In our website, one can fill a form mentioning the electronic items that they aren’t using. We will go to their house and pick it up and they will get a gift card. The electronic items will be given away to companies who can use them to refurbish a device.”
3rd prize: From gamers to game developers
For Mohammed Furqan, Keshav Malpani and Farhan Ahmed Khan, the free time they used to get in college would always be spent in playing the mobile-based game Chain Reaction. So addictive is the game that they would want to go home and continue playing with their friends. At the hackathon they used the simple idea to create the same game on a web platform. “We just created an online version of the game. And that’s why it’s no surprise that just in one day of us sharing it on Facebook, the website has got over 200 hits,” says Furqan.
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