Visakhapatnam will be the place where a significant national-level innovation marathon, focused on promoting smart and sustainable solutions to the country, will be hosted. The contest will be referred to as the CODEIAM Spark Nation Hackathon; this is an ongoing 48-hour competition meant to bring together the young, brilliant minds of the country. It is a high-intensity innovation marathon over which technologists and innovators are expected to use their talents to create viable, real-life solutions to the vision of a better India.

Vision and Significance

CODEIAM Spark Nation Hackathon will be held on October 25th and 26th in Visakhapatnam. It is a two-day event and a 48-hour-long national-level innovation marathon being hosted at the illustrious Andhra University.

The hackathon is a by-product of a partnership between a number of important institutions and organisations. CODEIAM is organising it in collaboration with Andhra University, RTIH Visakhapatnam, and A-Hub. This collaborative project highlights a promise on the part of both the educational and technology fields to push young people-led innovation.

The importance of the hackathon was emphasized even before the event with the official launch of the poster of the event by Andhra University Vice-Chancellor, Prof. GP Rajasekhar. The launch was attended by a number of university officials, such as Dean V Valli Kumari, K Venkat Rao, N Vijayamohan, and A Mary Soujanya, among others.

The national interest in establishing a Smart India is the highest philosophy behind the hackathon of the Spark Nation. The event will be a practical tool for empowering the youth in the country to be able to use their technical skills and creativity towards solving the major real-world problems that the government is facing at present.

The hackathon is branded as a disruptive event. It is not an event of competition aimed at identifying one winner, but an interactive system aimed at shared learning, broad cooperation, and radical personal and technical change.

Registration and impact

According to the organisers, Spark Nation is not a hackathon, but it is a movement. Its fundamental goal is to bring together a varied team comprising students, developers, designers, and entrepreneurs in order to promote collaboration, bring about innovation, and eventually make an impact in the real world through the implementation of technology. 

The organisers have made the registration and crucial event information easily accessible to all interested participants. To attend the ‘CODEIAM Spark Nation Hackathon’, people can use the QR code on the official poster of the event and get all the information about the event. All the required information can be found in the official lines of communication that are supported by CODEIAM.

Conclusion

CODEIAM Spark Nation Hackathon is an important national-level hackathon on innovation that was conducted at Andhra University in Visakhapatnam. By providing a platform of extreme coding, practical prototyping, a technology showcase, and useful networking with tech industry advisors, Spark Nation represents itself as more than a contest. It is a crucial movement aimed at enabling the young people to utilize their technical expertise to practical issues, and this is an actualization of the dream to develop a Smart India by collaborating, learning, and transforming technology.