This gamified hackathon aims to engage with young technology enthusiasts and enable them to find solutions to social issues that impact the nation
Capgemini announced the launch of Tech Challenge 5.0, the fifth season of its unique online hackathon designed to identify the best programmers and tech enthusiasts from across India. This hackathon invites passionate developers to compete with the best minds in programming and leverage their coding skills to resolve real world challenges to create social and economic value for the community.
The previous season of Tech Challenge witnessed an overwhelming response from more than 82,000 participants. In the finale, 75 of the brightest tech minds solved a real-life problem and built an application called ‘ReUnite App’ to report, track and identify missing and abandoned children in India. A first of its kind mobile application, ReUnite can be used by both, parents to report missing children and citizens to report on any vulnerable child on the streets with details and pictures. The app will soon be going live in the Android store.
Following the success of Tech Challenge 4.0 last year, this year’s edition will scout for the top programmers and tech professionals, encouraging them to share ideas and experiment with digital technologies in innovative ways. Contestants will participate in intense coding challenges in 10 skills such as Cloud, Cybersecurity, Embedded Systems, Data Science, Full Stack, and other emerging technologies. Participants can also choose to write their program in any of the other 50 programming languages, including C, C++, C#, Java, PHP, VB.NET, Python, Perl, Ruby and Javascript.
