The series in 100 colleges is starting January 2023, followed by hosting four regional project showcase events and a finale at a national level symposium in June
Google Cloud announced the launch of the ‘Solving for India Hackathon’ series across 100 engineering colleges of India. Organized in collaboration with AMD, the hackathon aims to provide students with exposure to business challenges, give access to leading edge technologies from Google Cloud and AMD powered instances and offer a talent platform to showcase their coding skills and creativity.
As part of the series, Google Cloud in collaboration with GeeksforGeeks will plan, execute and host virtual and in-person Hackathons on their online platform. Both GeeksforGeeks and Google Developers will leverage their student community and campus ambassadors for maximum number of registration and participation. The series in 100 colleges is starting January 2023, followed by hosting four regional project showcase events and a finale at a national level symposium in June.
The flagoff event for the Solving for India Hackathon Series was held in Gurgaon on 31 January with a special keynote by Dr Buddha of All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and Arvind Gupta of Digital India Foundation. Also in attendance were the winners of the 2022 Google Cloud Next Big Thing Hackathon, Team Zacharias from Persistent Systems.
