There is a huge digital divide in urban and rural schools. In a recent survey, over 75 pc of students are impacted due to the lockdown as they found it hard to study online, over 80 pc students said they need hand-holding to shift from offline to online and over 25 pc said they need proper training to pursue education online.
ekatra is a tool for educators and organizations to deliver learning at scale, combining the power of Text (SMS & Whatsapp), Audio & Video communication. Our learning platform helps such organizations focused on career readiness for underserved learners to teach them important job and life skills.
The hackathon will enable you to build solutions to extend the open source project's capabilities and solve for global education crisis.
To begin, Register your interest.
Requirements
Join our discord here!
WHAT WILL YOU BUILD?
Select a problem statement from the list. Your task is to build solutions to a real-world problem that ekatra solves, using GPT-3, participants get $18 worth credits for building solutions!
You will find all the problem statements expected to be solved by participants in the Hackatra GitHub Repo.
WHAT TO SUBMIT
- Demo video. Your video should be under 3 minutes, include a demo of how your solution works, and highlight your novel idea.
- Code. Provide a URL and access to your GitHub code repository. Your repository should include all your relevant project code and a README with getting started instructions that allow others to test your project. Provide access by making your code public or sharing access with VrukshEco GitHub account. The code needs to be Open Sourced under appropriate license.
- Write-Up. Provide a written defense of your project, explaining its strength in each of the four judging criteria (see Judging and Criteria in the Rules). Provide supporting facts and statistics as appropriate. The response for each criterion may be up to 250 words. The four criteria are:
- Impactfulness - for solving a real-world problem
- Innovativeness - for use of GPT-3
- Ambitiousness - for the scale and complexity of solution
- Applicability - for adoption in the real world
Prizes
₹ 49,000 in prizes
1st Prize
The winner gets a INR 20,000 (~USD 260) cash prize, upon successful implementation of the solution with the ekatra project.
The team gets an internship / consulting role with the organization with a potential to convert to a full time position.
The prize will go to the team with a fully functional solution to the problem statement, and clean documentation.
2nd Prize
The winner gets a INR 10,000 (~USD 130) cash prize, upon successful implementation of the solution with the ekatra project.
The team gets an internship / consulting role with the organization with a potential to convert to a full time position.
The prize will go to the team with a fully functional solution to the problem statement, and clean documentation.
3rd Prize
The winner gets a INR 5,000 (~USD 65) cash prize, upon successful implementation of the solution with the ekatra project.
The team gets an internship / consulting role with the organization with a potential to convert to a full time position.
The prize will go to the team with a fully functional solution to the problem statement, and clean documentation.
Special Prize
(4)
The special winners get INR 3,500 (~USD 45) cash prize, upon successful implementation of the solution with the ekatra project. The team gets an internship / consulting role with the organization with a potential to convert to a full time position. The prize will go to the team with a fully functional solution to the problem statement, and clean documentation.
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Gopal Sakarkar
GHRCE
Kalpit Bhawalkar
Konverge.ai
Abhijeet Khandagale
ED
Mario Rodriguez
Omdena México Chapter
Saif Malhem
AI Future Lab
Yoann Fol
Dathappy
Judging Criteria
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Technology
35% Technology (solution completion, quality of code, technical and analytical skills demonstrated) -
Applicability
35% Applicability and Impact to the Challenge (addresses the challenge prompt, potential to make positive impact on ekatra) -
Creativity and Innovation
20% Creativity and Innovation (novelty of the approach) -
Presentation
10% Presentation (quality of submitted slide deck, quality of live presentation for finalists)
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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