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Megathon’18 Onsite Hackathon

E-Cell, IIIT-Hyderabad and E-Cell, IIT Hyderabad hosted the annual hackathon Megathon’18 on 29 September 2018. Started in 2016, the onsite round of Megathon was organised jointly by E-Cells of IIIT-H IIT-H to a great degree of success, with around 1500 participants. This year too, IIIT Hyderabad hosted the 24 hour Onsite Hackathon where students prototype and build their business model.The goal of this hackathon was to provide technological solutions to issues put forward by the challenge sponsors. Participants had to choose one problem statement out of the 4 presented to them, prototype them and implement their ideas under the guidance of mentors from the industry and academia in 24 hours. This was followed by pitching of the business models/prototypes. The top ideas will be selected for the Business Hack.