The finale event of the CSIR Jigyasa EPIC Hackathon was organised on December 20, 2024 at the CSIR-IGIB, South Campus, New Delhi. The event was inaugurated by Dr. Souvik Maiti, Director, CSIR-IGIB. Dr. Geethavani Rayasam (Head, CSIR- HRDG), Dr. D. Shailaja (Chief Scientist, CSIR-IICT) and Mr. Anurag Mishra (Head,Cipla Foundation) were among the dignitaries.

The event started with the poster presentation of the EPIC Hackathon students who had completed their Summer internship at CSIR laboratories across India under the EPIC program. Total 35 teams and 48 students had participated in two-month summer internship at 18 CSIR laboratories across the country and out of which 29 students presented their research projects done during the summer internship. At the end of the event, the winners of the CSIR EPIC Hackathon were felicitated with prizes and certificates. Workshop on pitch deck and Innovation & Entrepreneurship were also organized for the participants.

The winner of CSIR Jigyasa EPIC Hackathon 2024 is Mr. Japteg Singh Bamrah, who received a cash prize of Rs. 50,000 for his project Solar-Mech Engine. He did his internship at CSIR-IIIM, Jammu. Mr. Uddhav Gupta& Mr. Udbhav Bandhani were the first runner-ups. They did their internship at CSIR-CSIO, Chandigarh and won a cash prize of Rs. 30,000 for their joint submission titled “Drishyamitram- Illuminating walkways for visually challenged”. Ms. Shreya Vinod and Mr. Soyal Parijawon the third prize of Rs. 10,000 each for their innovative works. The title of project of Ms. Shreya Vinod was “Generating electricity from the waste heat of air conditioners” and she had interned at CSIR-CBRI, Roorkee. Mr. SoyalParija’s topic was ‘I-Stetho-A wireless stethoscope’ and her internship was conducted at CSIR-IMMT.

About EPIC Hackathon

Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) launched Empowering Pupil Innovation and Creativity (EPIC) on January 5, 2024 under JIGYASA programme with an aim to provide a platform to budding youngstudents to pursue their innovation as well as nurture their potential in developing innovative solutions to address the challenges in the country through science and technology. For this year, innovative ideas from students were invited in two themes namely “One Health” and “Clean and Green Energy”. Out of the 1300 students who submitted their applications, 52 students were initially selected for a two month summer internship at different CSIR labs. At the end of two months, 48 students successfully completed their internship.Cipla Foundation had partnered with CSIR-IICT for this CSIR Jigyasa EPIC Hackathon 2024 programme.

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