NITK, Surathkal to organise 24 hour ‘HackVerse 3.0’

The National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), Suratkal is organizing ‘HackVerse 3.0’, a student-led, 24-hour national-level hackathon from February 26.

It is organized annually since NITK’s Diamond Jubilee Year 2019-20, HackVerse has served as a platform to encourage enthusiastic minds to brainstorm on solutions for challenging issues from all over India. The unified motive of gathering all like-minded hackers to our alma mater led to the creation of the idea in NITK, Surathkal, the first of its kind. The event provides a platform for innovations where developers can test and showcase their potential to the best of their abilities.

HackVerse 3.0 has received substantial sponsorship from a host of companies including Wells Fargo, DigitalOcean, IDP, echo 3DV, BPB, Alan AI, GeeksforGeeks and more. The hackathon offers cash prizes of more than Rs 2 lakhs to the top-performing teams. This includes five new tracks introduced this year –CosMic Express, AndroMedia, Plan-et Well, HealThyself, Hack-a-block– each one unique in its own way. Other exciting goodies, platform credits, coding platform access, courses and prizes worth more than Rs. 50 lakhs will be offered to the participants.