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Sunday 24 October 2021

Philips Code to Care Challenge 2021


Code to Care Challenge is a hackathon from Philips, aimed at generating ideas and solutions that ensure better health outcomes, improve patient experience and enhance healthcare staff satisfaction. Philips has always invested in the workforce of the future. With this hackathon, they aim to bring the best minds in India together, on a single platform and give the next generation ideas a chance to step forward.

Eligibility and Team Rules:

This competition is open to students pursuing B.Tech/B.E./M.Tech/Dual degree programs across select engineering colleges in India (Graduation year – 2nd to 4th year ( B.Tech), 1st & 2nd year (M.Tech) and 2nd to 5th year (Dual degree)).
Students must register in teams of 3 members.
The participating students should be from the eligible speacialisations mentioned for their campus (refer to the list of eligible campuses below)
They should be full-time students from the same engineering college
One person cannot be a member of more than one team
Students should have 65% (6.5 CGPA) and above marks (overall) till their current semester to qualify for the Hackathon
Any deviation from the above will result in immediate disqualification of the entire team
Competition Structure:

It's a three-tier challenge. Participants need to complete the first two stages and all the tasks under these stages to qualify and enter the Final Stage of the challenge.

Preliminary Round: MCQs 

All registered team members need to take the MCQ test individually on 30th October'21, in one sitting
The MCQ test will comprise of 2 sections, each section will have 10 questions
(Section 1 – About Philips, Section 2 - Cognitive Test)
This must be completed in a time limit of 30 minutes
Second Preliminary Round: Idea Submission Phase

Shortlisted teams from the previous round will have to build the prototype of an Idea on any of the given problem statements.
Deliverables for the same will be:
7-slider Presentation in .ppt or .pptx format detailing the idea
1-minute video demonstrating the working prototype
Source code of the prototype and any other relevant documentation in one zip file which should not exceed 15 MB in size
Presentation Format:
Slide 1: Theme chosen, problem statement, proposed solution in brief, team details
There is no format for other slides. You can use your creativity to make the best presentation.
Evaluation criteria:
Creativity and Novelty of the Idea (against what exists)
Use in real life
Complexity of problem being solved
Proto/solution completeness
Top 5 teams will move on to the final round based on the quality of submission and the idea

Grand Finale:

In the final round of Code to Care Challenge, top 5 finalists will compete in the last round of evaluation in front of the leaders.
Teams need to make a presentation of the idea and the prototype.
Mentor from Philips will be assigned to work on the final presentation for each team.
Teams will be given 8 minutes to present, followed by 7 minutes of Q&A. In total, a team will have 15 minutes.
Source code of all the top scorers that move to the Finale will be evaluated for authenticity. This is done towards the end for the Finale to ensure that only the best moves forward.
All decisions in the matter of eligibility, authenticity & final judgement will be with Philips.

Rewards:

National Winner: INR 1,00,000*
Runner Up: INR 75,000*


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