The Tamil Nadu Skill Development Corporation (TNSDC) is organising a hackathon for engineering students across the State to encourage innovation among youth. Called ‘Naan Mudhalvan Niral Thiruvizha’, the hackathon will be executed with the support of Anna University.
The hackathon is open to the final year students of all engineering colleges from government colleges, government-aided colleges, government autonomous colleges, University constituent colleges, self-financing autonomous colleges and self-financing non-autonomous colleges. Students will take up this programme with 12-credits as project work in their final semester. Over one lakh students are expected to participate in this event.
“We are doing this to help engineering students get hands-on experience to industry problems,” said J. Innocent Divya, Managing Director of TNSDC. “The Entrepreneurship Development and Innovation Institute (EDII) supported this event by conducting workshops across all 38 districts to identify problem statements and to prepare faculty mentors to guide students throughout this process,” she added. She further said, “We have collected problem statements from the industry and the government — and now the students will have to find solutions to it.”
