The winning teams of HackXcelerate 2024, faculties and
organisers on the concluding day
The two-day Microsoft-ByteXL led hackathon titled ‘HackXcelerate 2024,’ concluded with the announcement of the winning teams. More than 2,000 B E and B Tech students of various engineering colleges and universities from across India participated. At the hackathon, students built real-life problem-solving projects, attended key sessions, and gathered industry inputs from technology experts.
In a 24-hour marathon, students worked on coding, designing, and project building. The first prize worth Rs 1.50 lakh was bagged by team ‘Code Sarathi AI’ from Anurag University. Team from Chaitanya Bharati Institute of Technology walked away with the 2nd prize worth Rs 75,000. Team Tech-AI from N K Orchid College of Engineering and Technology from Maharashtra won the 3rd prize worth Rs 50,000. A special certificate was awarded to team 1o1 from CVR College of Engineering for their extraordinary performance.
Over 139 teams from across the country had registered for the event, while 50 teams were shortlisted for the hackathon challenge. Adithya Saladi, Software Consultant, Microsoft;
Sricharan Tadepalli, CSO and Co-Founder, byteXL and Professor Dr C V Narasimhulu, Principal, Chaitanya Bharati Institute of Technology; Dr NLN Reddy, Director, Career Development Council, Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology, were present.
Sricharan Tadepalli said, “There were impressive pitches, great ideas, which I hope the students build and figure out the right investor to take it to that end-to-end product. ByteXL will be of help in building a viable product. Mentoring 50 teams is not a simple task, but the mentors too showed their support throughout the hackathon. The aim was to build a project that the students can talk about during the interviews while applying for jobs at companies.”
