AISSMS College Of Engineering Bagged First position at Smart India Hackathon-2019

Smart India Hackathon (SIH), the world’s biggest digital movement, commenced its journey in the year 2017 making it a platform for young minds to compete with youth, nationwide in a 120 hour nonstop digital programming competition to find innovative solutions to the real life problems faced by our nation. In SMART INDIA HACKATHON (SIH) - 2019, the National Level Competition held from 8th to 12th July, Hardware Edition, 20,000 teams had participated from the entire country. The competition held at IIT-Hyderabad from come to a glorious end when the young technocrats of AISSMS College of Engineering’s Team AAROHAN bagged the First Prize with a cash award of Rs. 1 Lakh by solving the problem statement posed by NALCO, a company that is the Lowest Cost Producer of Alumina & Bauxite in the World. Team AAROHAN comprising of 6 members, led by Mr. Shubham Badhe, under the guidance of their faculty members Mr. Vipin Gawai and Mrs. Ankita Gupta competed with teams from different parts of India and arrived at the best solution catching the full attention of the firm’s representatives.

 On being interviewed, Mr. Shubham Badhe (along with his team Vinaya Salunke,Yadnesh Kulkarni, Atharva Reshimwale, Apurva Lonkar and Saurabh Dawkhar) gave a huge amount of credit to the Principal Dr. D. S. Bormane and Dr. A. V. Waghmare, Dr D G Bhalke, Dr D P Gaikwad, Dr B D Bachchhav, Dr S F Sayyad for their tremendous support and Mrs. V. N . Patil for enlightening and encouraging the team to give their best. The team worked tirelessly trying to sort out the dispatch segment as instructed in the problem statement but suggested some changes even in the storage segment of the warehouse for better productivity. He also stated that the NALCO firm members approached their bench everyday for not only checking their progress but also making amendments in the steps taken to enable the project to appropriately fit the company’s requirement. The students also wish to work further on the project and provide generalized software that can address the issues of different companies by being able to make minor changes in the existing model. They wish to raise the bar by publishing their work soon. The students were awestruck with the professionalism and conduct of the organizers.

The Honorary Secretary (AISSMS)  Shri Malojiraje Chhatrapati  and Managing Committee members,   Principal Dr D S Bormane, All Heads of Departments, Teaching and Non Teaching Faculty have Congratulated the prize winners on their glorious achievement.