INSPIRATHON-2022

The main highlight of Inspirus 2K22 was a 24-hour non-stop Full Stack Hackathon “INSPIRATHON”. It was held for the 4^th time in Goa. The event was supported by Spintly.

The hackathon began on November 3, 2022 at 12 pm and ran continuously for 24 hours until 12 pm on November 4, 2022. The organizing team received a huge response for the registrations, from participants all over the state of Goa. A total of 14 teams registered for the hackathon. There were a total of 21 problem statements to choose from. The problem statements were released one day prior to the event and each team had to choose a unique problem statement. The  participants were from various engineering colleges and polytechnic colleges.

The hackathon served as a great platform for the organizers as well as the participants to network and cultivate connections. The judges for the 4^th edition of Inspirathon were Mr. Saurabh Kanekar from Persistent Systems and Mr. Malcolm Dsouza; Co-founder and CTO from Spintly.

The participating teams were told to upload their work on Github for the judges to evaluate. The teams then had to present their solutions to the judges through presentations and demos whereby they were judged on complexity of the solution, completion, innovation, presentation, execution and the solution itself.

After the judging round the participants gave their feedback on attending the 24-hour hackathon. The teams commended the organising team for organising the hackathon very well and they also expressed their desire to attend the hackathon for the next edition of Inspirus.

The 1^st place was bagged by team God Speed from Goa College of Engineering, members were Amisha Naik, Georgey VB and Saif Farooqi. Team A3 secured the 2^nd place from Goa College of Engineering; members were Atharva Parkhe, Amit Balekundar and Azvern Dias. 3^rd place went to team Code_Speaks_For_Itself from NIT-Goa; members were Zubin Shah, Rahul Jalan and Niranjan Hebli.

The Faculty Coordinators for the event were Prof. Merwyn D’Souza, Prof. Amey Tilve and Prof. Mithil Parab. The student coordinators were Pratham Shah, Sanketh Shenoy, Manohar Gaunekar, Abhishek Kudalkar, Idwal Dias, Jason Rodrigues, Rudra Kande, Shannon D’silva, Rutvik Vaze, Ved Kerkar, Glory D’Cruz, Kezia Fernandes, Ruchi Bokade, Khizer Ahmed Khan, Rhys Rodrigues. Both the faculty and student coordinators worked hand in hand tirelessly to make this event a grand success.