IIIT Hyderabad’s entrepreneurship cell conducts Megathon 2022

More than 700 participants from 30 colleges participated in Megathon 2022, the annual flagship event of IIIT Hyderabad. 

The entrepreneurship cell of the International Institute of Information Technology, (IIIT) Hyderabad conducted its annual flagship event, Megathon 2022, in which more than 700 participants from 30 colleges participated. It was a 24-hour hackathon involving four problem statements: two from their title sponsor Stellantis, one from associate sponsor Qualcomm, and the social problem from Raj Reddy Centre for Technology and Society (RCTS). 

Institute's largest student-run hackathon to date

After a gruelling round of pitches, team ‘AlphaQueue’ emerged as winners for the first problem statement by Stellantis while team ‘Pied Piper’ won the second one. Team ‘Le Boys’ took home the Qualcomm prize and finally ‘Hack Your Mom’ and ‘What the Hack’ jointly won the social problem round. This year's event was the institute's largest student-run hackathon to date.

The opening ceremony of the event was graced by talks from several distinguished speakers. Prof Ramesh Loganathan kickstarted the event by introducing the students to CIE (Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship), IIIT Hyderabad’s start-up incubator. He was followed by Prof CV Jawahar, Dean, R&D, IIIT Hyderabad, and chief executive officer of CIE, and Prof Kannan Srinathan, who talked to students about the entrepreneurial spirit of problem solving.  

After one round of selection by the pre-jury, 23 teams presented their pitches to the final jury in the closing ceremony. The shortlisted Stellantis problem statement winners will get a chance to be a part of a bigger hackathon and participate to get their best ideas reviewed. The event concluded with a prize distribution ceremony, followed by a photo session. 

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