Honeywell hosted its first Honeywell Hackathon Challenge on June 9 in
Bengaluru, India in association with HackerEarth, which is a provider of
enterprise software solutions that help organizations in their innovation
management and talent assessment endeavors. The first in a series of similar
events scheduled for this year, The Honeywell Hackathon Challenge was held at
Honeywell Technology Solutions’ office with more than 2,000 participants.
The Honeywell Hackathon
Challenge is designed to stimulate creativity and innovation on technologies
that are defining our increasingly connected world. The first Hackathon ideated
on Chatbots, Augmented
Reality/Virtual Reality, Predictive Analytics, Image Recognition, Machine
Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Real-Time Location Sensing / GPS.
The 169 entries were evaluated based on the innovativeness of the idea, its
relevance as a solution to the problem, and the maturity of technology
employed. Twenty-two shortlisted teams comprising 41 contestants then
participated in the day-long offline Hackathon held at the Honeywell Bengaluru
campus.
The winners were Lezwon
Castellino, Jaison Chacko and Rahul Acharya,
students at Christ University, Bangalore, whose application was a Self-Driving
Artificial Intelligence. Says Lezwon: “We have participated in other Hackathons
before but were truly inspired by the caliber of solutions designed by other
teams at this event. It was great to meet and talk with the engineering and
development teams at Honeywell. We deeply appreciate the steer and mentoring we
got from Honeywell to optimize our solution.”
The Honeywell
Hackathon Challenge saw 1,200 students from the prestigious Indian Institutes
of Technology (IITs), Regional Engineering Colleges, and school children from
across the country submit their ideas. Gaurang Bharti, a
student of Oakridge International School, whose idea made it to the final
shortlist, was among the youngest participants. “Our idea was appraised by
professionals. We received feedback on improving the idea for mass use. This is
a very rare opportunity and a great learning exercise”, said Bharti.
Dr. Akshay Bellare, vice president and general manager of
Honeywell Technology Solutions, India, Honeywell’s technology development and
engineering arm, said: “I’m delighted to see the thirst for learning among such
a young group of technology enthusiasts. As Honeywell transforms into a
software industrial company, with about half of our 23,000 global engineers
working on software, we recognize that digital and physical solutions will
become more and more connected to change the way we live and work. We are
committed to nurturing Indian engineering talent and supporting the tech
community in making it more robust and in-step with the latest technology
trends.”
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