Bhubaneswar: The concluding day of the two-day Mozilla Fest flagged off with the Mozilla Hackathon 3.0, which was organised on the theme of ‘Develop powerful teaching tool’, at KIIT University here Sunday.
It was organised by Mozilla Club BBSR.
Hackathons are the new brisk way for idea generation. They provide platform and tools to stimulate creativity for problem-solving at a professional level. Limited time forces the participants to brainstorm their vision down to the practical and feasible solutions. Learning and building go hand in hand at such events. The more the active developers, higher the potential of bringing a fresh perspective to the business challenges along with societal development.
Ideas with proper documentation were endorsed and after six hours, the participants submitted their projects on GitHub. The top 10 teams were called for presentation, from which the top 3 teams were felicitated by the judges with awards and cash prize. All the teams received goodies as a token of love.
Unpredictable disruption of technology has lead companies to take the road of Hackathons for problem solving as it allows developers worldwide to throw in their ideas.
The event was graced by Jhanja Das, president of Rotary E-Club, Aslam Rahman, state head, premier NSDC partner-Rooman Technologies, Kumar Mohanty, director of Corporate Relations, KIIT and Rosy Rath, Rotary Club.
Having exemplary experience in field of technology and business, the guests engaged with the attendees about importance of technology and the need of fine developmental skills with their intelligible thoughts.
Rashmi Ranjan Sahu, Sr. Mission Associate (Incubation & Partnership) at Startup Odisha, engaged with the attendees by deliberating on the potential outcomes of the Hackathon.
Using open source platforms, Mozilla projects and several other latest technologies like machine learning, blockchain, AR & VR along with web and android for ideation, participants presented solutions for rejuvenating the teaching experience of the students.
Ideas about enhancing classroom experience, increasing teacher and student interaction, creating hostel learning environment and explaining complex problems to kids with the use of technology were well deliberated by the judges.
