<p class="title">Team Hacking Bad from Sardar Patel Institute of Technology (SPIT), Mumbai, emerged victorious in the first 36-hour Manipal Hackathon which ended at the KEF Auditorium in MIT.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The team was presented with a cheque for Rs 1 lakh.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Team Codelion from Mumbai University, which came second, was presented with a cash reward of Rs 50,000 in the event organised by the Student Council of MIT as part of the annual fest, Tech Tatva 19.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Rajen Padukone, Group President, Manipal Education and Medical Group (MEMG), Bengaluru, was the chief guest.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Also, present were Dr B H V Pai, Joint Director of MIT, and Dr Narayana Shenoy, Associate Director (Student Welfare).</p>.<p class="bodytext">The theme for the Hackathon was ‘Social Innovation’.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Each team worked on one of the five given problem statements: To Make Roadways More Efficient; To Improve Healthcare Systems; To Reduce Crime Against Women; To Make Better Medical Prescription Systems and To Develop Smart City Projects.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Team Hacking Bad developed an application to help improve women’s safety. The application marks regions in a locality as safe or unsafe. Further, it automatically sends SOS alerts to the appropriate authorities and pre-selected contacts upon entering an unsafe zone. It is designed to reduce the reaction time taken for help to reach in these situations.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Team Codelion from Mumbai University developed a dynamic traffic light system which works by detecting the number of vehicles approaching a traffic signal and displaying the signals accordingly. Such a system would be more efficient than conventional timer-based traffic lights. It also has the potential to reduce congestion and pollution in our cities.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Four other teams received a special mention―Team Kuber Techies, Ramaiah Institute of Technology; Team Default, Pune Institute of Computer Technology; Team Code O Holics also from the same Pune Institute of Computer Technology and Team Coldblooded, from Pillai College of Engineering.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Kuber Techies designed an automated diagnosing system which displays the medication recommended for a particular patient to the doctor. Team Default made a system which detects false documents and prevents illegal immigration in smart cities. Team Code O Holics developed a women’s safety app made available in multiple Indian languages and Coldblooded Team came up with a quality healthcare system with a chatbot, also available in different languages.</p>
<p class="title">Team Hacking Bad from Sardar Patel Institute of Technology (SPIT), Mumbai, emerged victorious in the first 36-hour Manipal Hackathon which ended at the KEF Auditorium in MIT.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The team was presented with a cheque for Rs 1 lakh.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Team Codelion from Mumbai University, which came second, was presented with a cash reward of Rs 50,000 in the event organised by the Student Council of MIT as part of the annual fest, Tech Tatva 19.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Rajen Padukone, Group President, Manipal Education and Medical Group (MEMG), Bengaluru, was the chief guest.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Also, present were Dr B H V Pai, Joint Director of MIT, and Dr Narayana Shenoy, Associate Director (Student Welfare).</p>.<p class="bodytext">The theme for the Hackathon was ‘Social Innovation’.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Each team worked on one of the five given problem statements: To Make Roadways More Efficient; To Improve Healthcare Systems; To Reduce Crime Against Women; To Make Better Medical Prescription Systems and To Develop Smart City Projects.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Team Hacking Bad developed an application to help improve women’s safety. The application marks regions in a locality as safe or unsafe. Further, it automatically sends SOS alerts to the appropriate authorities and pre-selected contacts upon entering an unsafe zone. It is designed to reduce the reaction time taken for help to reach in these situations.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Team Codelion from Mumbai University developed a dynamic traffic light system which works by detecting the number of vehicles approaching a traffic signal and displaying the signals accordingly. Such a system would be more efficient than conventional timer-based traffic lights. It also has the potential to reduce congestion and pollution in our cities.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Four other teams received a special mention―Team Kuber Techies, Ramaiah Institute of Technology; Team Default, Pune Institute of Computer Technology; Team Code O Holics also from the same Pune Institute of Computer Technology and Team Coldblooded, from Pillai College of Engineering.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Kuber Techies designed an automated diagnosing system which displays the medication recommended for a particular patient to the doctor. Team Default made a system which detects false documents and prevents illegal immigration in smart cities. Team Code O Holics developed a women’s safety app made available in multiple Indian languages and Coldblooded Team came up with a quality healthcare system with a chatbot, also available in different languages.</p>