Tata Crucible Hackathon is a knowledge initiative by the Tata group, held annually as a combined edition for corporates and campus students. Tata group has always endeavoured to undertake initiatives that provide young minds a platform to showcase their talent and in 2017 Hackathon was added to the Tata Crucible platform to ignite young minds to think differently and find innovative solutions to complex challenges. Group Innovation Office of the Tata group is the content partner for the Tata Crucible Hackathon. S
Eligibility – The Tata Crucible Hackathon is open to all full time students of business schools, engineering and graduate colleges, including college students from all disciplines, across India and all full time working professionals from corporates and start-ups.
Formats
PHASE I: PRELIMS – ONLINE SOLUTION SUBMISSION
This is an online solution submission round.
Students can form teams of 2 to 5 student members from the same or different institutions and working professionals can form teams of 2 to 5 from the same or different organisations to participate in this edition.
The challenges will be open pan-India and the participating teams can fill out the solution submission form, after registration.
Pan-India challenge dates:
Challenge open date: 19th October 2022
Challenge close date: 19th November 2022
JUDGING CRITERIA FOR PRELIMS:
Evaluation of students and working professionals will be done separately
A panel of judges (consisting of members from Group Innovation Office, Corporate Brand and marketing team, Customer centricity team, experts from companies, and others) will evaluate each submission using a combination of judging criteria:
Rich technical content – It is expected that the teams will submit a theoretical solution to the challenge. The evaluation, in the prelims, will be solely done by reviewing the content of the description. Please ensure the description is very well articulated. Please include as many technical details as possible.
The simplicity of the solution – It must be uncomplicated, not require any major changes to the business operations, and be logistically feasible.
Ease of Implementation – Should not take too much time or effort to implement it.
Cost Effectiveness – Not overwhelmingly expensive.
Innovation – how creative and innovative the solution is, will also determine the final selection.
PHASE II: EVALUATION AND ANNOUNCEMENT
Based on the quality of entries, as per the judging criteria, the top teams from each challenge will receive email communication after the evaluation of all submissions.
Announcement of Shortlisted Teams: Tentatively by the second week of December 2022 – 6th or 7th Dec
Final Events: January 2023 first week – To be confirmed
PHASE III: PREPARATION PERIOD FOR PROTOTYPE DEVELOPMENT OR PROOF OF CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT (TBD)
Shortlisted teams can work on their prototypes and solutions during this period.
Teams will be waitlisted in case the top teams fail to work on the prototype/solution during the interim period before the actual events.
PHASE IV: ZONAL FINALS (8th to 11th January 2022)
There will be four Zonal Finals.
All shortlisted teams are required to be ready with their prototypes and/or solutions on the day of the event. A prototype, whether digital or physical, can be used to demonstrate your solution.
Each prototype/solution will be reviewed by the jury
After evaluating the prototypes/solutions, judges will shortlist the top teams for the pitch session..
Top teams get a chance to pitch their prototype/solution to the judges.
The winning solution(s)/prototype(s) will be announced at the end of each zonal final.
There will be two winning teams from each zone, one campus team and one corporate team.
The most innovative prototype/solution from the campus teams and corporate teams, each winning team will be awarded a cash prize of up to Rs. 70,000*.
The judges will evaluate based on simplicity/feasibility, cost of the solution, innovation, and other criteria mentioned in Phase I.
PHASE V: NATIONAL FINALS (12th January 2023)
The 2 winning teams from each of the four zones will compete in the National Final. (1 each from corporate and campus)
There will be 1 winning team at the National Final each for a campus team and a corporate team.
The National Winning teams will be awarded a cash prize of up to Rs.1.5 lakhs*.
* Prizes will be distributed on the basis of the quality of the entries, and at the full discretion of the Judges and the Organisers. Participants are cautioned against anyone claiming to represent as Organisers and making any false assurances. Prizes will be subject to tax deductions applicable at the source.
Registrations open date – October 19, 2022
Registrations close date – November 19, 2022
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