trichy national institute of technology nit trichy bagged second place in the indosingapore joint hackathon held in singapore from november 13 to 15 prime minister narendra modi graced the occasion and gave away cash prizes to the participantssingapore india hackathon 2018 solution for humanity was organised by nanyang technological university and mhrds innovation cell it had 20 teams each from two countries with university and college students selected nationwide to participate in the hackathonthe team comprising kartik venkataran deep bhattacharya and d arutselvan from nit trichy accompanied by faculty member rajeswari sridhar from computer science engineering department won the second prize first place from india was secured by team from iitkharagpur who worked on indoor navigationnittrichy bagged second prize worth 6000 sgd for building an effective learning platform based on crowd sourcing that has expert recommendations with live chatit also had a neurolinguistic processing engine to tag topics to summarize the concepts in the form of mind maps and recommendations of prerequisitesrelated topics with links to resourcesmini shaji thomas director nit trichy congratulated the team for their great efforts and for glorifying the name of the institute in the international front as nittrichy was one of the only two nits that was chosen to represent the indian contingenta total of 120 participants took part in the 36hour hackathon that began on monday where each team had three students and a dedicated mentorproblems were in the areas of mapping synchronizing output of diverse social media and shared digital identity verification effective number estimate space management and allotment effective learning and personal securityteams were chosen based on the programming skills and were selected based on a screening process by the mhrd after which they underwent a twoday orientation at iitbombay before their departure to singapore to equip themselves for the hackathon total five teams were selected to represent each country in the finale