Journey of Smart India Hackathon 2019

SMART INDIA HACKATHON 2019
Smart India Hackathon is a nationwide platform for solving the software and hardware problems.Our Problem Statement was of YAMAHA “My City Information Mobile App”,where we created an Android Application which provided the information about the selected city and the categories in it such as Hotels,Hospitals,Tourist places,etc.The Grand Finale of SIH2019 was on 2nd and 3rd March 2019 in JSS Academy,Noida. Our Journey began on 27th February 2019.We had our train from Ratnagiri to Delhi on the same day at 4.30pm.We departured to Delhi on 28th February 2019 at 7.30 pm. The train experience was the fun part.From there we travelled from Delhi to Noida by Delhi Metro and reached in JSS Academy at 8.35pm.

Our First day in Noida….(1st March 2019)
The Registration process began at 10am.We finished the process around 3pm and then we started with our discussion of the work we Six would be doing.We had this discussion on the ground of JSS Academy where the students of that college were busy preparing skits for their Fest,some of them were doing Dance practice,some were playing Cricket.We felt like a part of that college.It was just a beautiful time spent there.After the discussion,we had our dinner and attended the Conference meeting in the event location at 10pm.Everyone of us went to bed after this as from next day our Grand Finale was going to begin.

Second Day in Noida…(2nd March 2019)
We woke up at 6am,had our breakfast and went to the event location.At 8am there was the Inauguration ceremony,Welcome speech by the Principal of JSS Academy and the AICTE Chairman Mr.Sahastra Buddhe Sir and the event started with the National Anthem.We had four teams competing with us for the same problem statement.Finally the continous 36 hours of coding started at 8.30am.We started with the designing part first.After finishing some of the work we had a training session round at 11.30am to 1pm where we were given few suggestion regarding our app.After that we had our lunch and got back to our work.We had an interaction with the chief guest and all the dignitaries who were present there.It was very glad to meet them,specially Mr.Sahastra Buddhe Sir.Time was running so fast.At 7pm we had our First Round of Judging.Unfortunetly,our Google API got suspended and we were unable to show them our demo so we just gave our presentation.Getting the experience from this we understood one thing that presentation is very important in the part of explaining the demo.Our confidence was bit low after this but we didn’t give up.Spending 6 hours on the Google API,our account got verified and most of our app was completed.At 11pm we were live with the Prime Minister of India Modiji through the Video Conference.His words were overwhelming.

Third Day in Noida…(3rd March 2019)
At morning 1am,we had Recreational activities like dance,singing,etc.Students showcased their talents during this.Again at 1.30am we started our coding.From 3am to 6am the Coding was resumed but not a single group took rest.Everyone was busy with implementing their app.Music was playing in the background so that was one of the reason we were not sleepy,that kept us fresh and awake.At 6am we had Yoga Session which was really energy giving session.After this at 9am we had our Second round of Judging.We gave our best shot to it and we were very happy that judges appreciated our presentation and our work.But it was not the end,we got suggestions again for our app.Again we started to update our app.Coding stopped at 5pm and we faced our Last Round of Judging at 5pm.Valedictory Function started at 5.30pm where the results were announced.The Grand Finale ended up with the National Anthem.
We didn’t get the prize but the experience we got,the things we learnt are priceless.At the end of the event we all Six of us had a smile on our face which showed satisfaction that we did our BEST.
Overall,the experience was great.