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sprint fest motivates students to intertwine social impact and technology to build innovative

solutions for our society.

The Practice:

The JU Hackathon was conducted to bring the students from across the nation together to

explore, discuss and implement new solutions and the theme for the same is - 'Digital Bharat'-
Come, let's empower Bharat together. Applications are invited form the students and are

thoroughly reviewed and then shortlisted.. The whole event is divided into three stages viz...
Presentation of the idea towards the theme with focus on Social Business and the intermediate

implementation of the idea and finally demonstrating the working model developed. The

event began with inauguration program by lightening of Diya. Besides the contest there are
sessions by Founder and MD iNurture, Mr. Ravikishor Mundana, CEO, Centre of Excellence,

Cyber Security for Govt of Karnataka and Software Engineering, MCfee India Centre who took
chances to address the gathering which they were experienced in sharing their knowledge.

As its initiative, University has been conducting Idea Competition and Invention Competition

over the past few years. The INVENTECH IC fosters innovative ideas and activities among the

young students and faculty.

Evidence of Success:

The main theme of IDEA INFOTECH 2019 contest was to identify idea that can be incubated

and commercialized the theme for year 2018 was 'Innovations for Rural Empowerment and
Sustainable Development. Proposals involving inventive ideas and developments in the fields

of Energy, Disaster Mitigation, Transportation, Materials, Environment, Life Sciences and
information Technology/IoT preferably focusing on the above theme were invited. B.Tech

students of Jain (Deemed-to-be University) brought laurels by receiving the INAE Innovative

Student Project Award 2019. Receiving an INAE Innovative Student Project Award is of great
achievement as the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), is an apex body and

promotes the practice of engineering & technology and the related sciences for their

application to solving problems of national importance. The Project was titled “Tubercles
effect on a wing performance for NACA 634 – 421 aerofoil” and the team of students namely

Amrutha K, Dumpeti Vineeth, Gracio Joyal Lobo, Medisetti Swami Charan were guided by

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