Jalandhar March 22 (Jaswinder Singh Azad)- The ‘Innovation Hackathon 2024’ is organized by the PG Department of Computer Science and IT of PCM S.D. College for Women, Jalandhar. It is for the students to experience the process of generating software solutions to real-world problems and discovering hacks to implement it. The competition was aimed to provide an open platform for students to express their views to introduce new techniques, standards, or personal programming styles to progress on projects. Six teams actively participated with enthusiasm in the event.
Two problem statements were presented by the students under the theme ’Student Innovation’ namely Travel and Tourism and Fitness & Sports. Judges Mrs. Shivani Sharma, Dr. Lovely Sharma, and Ms. Sapna Thakur evaluated students on insight and understanding of their topic selection, clarity, creativity, technical complexity, commercial viability, social impact, etc. Addressing the students, one of the judges of the event Mrs. Shivani Sharma motivated the participants, she also added that the students should channelize their energy in the right direction and establish themselves successfully in their careers.
President Shri Naresh Budhia, Senior Vice-President Shri Vinod Dada, the honorable members of the Managing Committee, and the worthy Principal Prof. (Dr.) Pooja Prashar appreciated the efforts of the computer science department of the college for successfully organizing the event aimed at promoting creativity in society.