 Hello everyone, welcome to another interesting episode of how to age the hackathon. Do you remember when we said that smart India hackathon is a platform which invites and bring the innovative minds from all across the corners of this vast country India. Today we have one such participant from a beautiful city of Madhavani, Bihar who was not only the winner of one but two editions of smart India hackathon. So let's welcome him and understand how this entire journey was. So without any further ado, Anurag, welcome to the show. Thank you sir. How are you? Sir, I am Mani. I have heard that you come from Madhavani, Bihar. So, anyway Madhavani is very famous for their paintings. You have won two editions of SIH, so this is also a very big thing for your area. Anurag, tell me a basic experience of how your smart India hackathon was. How did you start your smart India hackathon? Sir, actually, the culture of hackathons in our college was very good. My college is in Vitek, in M.I.T.Muchapur, which is a government college in Mujjopur. So, I was in second year at that time, so I saw that my seniors were participating and they were winning there. So, they got a lot of opportunities, like when I got a chance for a start-up, their project became a patent. So, from there, I got motivation that I will also participate next year. So, first of all, I worked on my skills as a team. There were some seniors, some juniors, some of my batchmates. So, the first time I experienced that we got the problems, we worked on them. So, during that work, we learned a lot of skills, we saw a lot of problems. We had the same thing that the project was getting ruined at the last minute. Then, we worked on it. Then, we got an experience of handling pressure. And during our evolution, even then, our mentors, the judges, told us to improve this. So, in a short time, we had to improve, we learned how to do time management there. So, this hackathon has improved my skills a lot. Along with that certificate, it is so valuable that I applied a lot of places, so I got a lot of offers. So, it is a very good platform for any student, for engineering experience. Very good. Okay, Anurag, I have to discuss this with you specially because many people think that in the tier one cities or in the colleges where there is a lot of exposure, if only the students of those colleges participate, then they have the opportunity or the chances of winning. They have this kind of knowledge in the minds of people. So, I would like to, because you, from where you spoke, even there, as you know, there was so much exposure of the hackathon. So, what would you like to say for our first-time participants, which are tier two, tier three cities? It is a very good question, sir. In this, we would like to say that in the year that I participated in our college, in the year 2022, our six teams were selected in the year 2022. So, this does not mean that if the college is tier three, tier two, then its selection will not be there. If you have done a good job, if you have done a good presentation, then your selection will definitely be there. So, this does not depend on the colleges. It depends on your work. It depends on how well you have worked. For example, there are a lot of colleges in Bihar, like Dabangah Engineering College, the government colleges that come in tier three, there is no ranking. From there, a lot of teams have been selected. My previous juniors and seniors, all of them have been selected. The final ones that we have won, we also won in the hardware division in the year 2022. So, I do not think that the college has any effect on this. Your work is the effect. You were right that at the end of the day, your work matters. College does not matter. Here, I would like to come to another question. As you said that your team composition was your seniors as well, some are your juniors and some are your batch mates. So, as a team leader, what suggestions would you like to give? As a team leader, all the points of contact are there. All the jewellery members, all of you would like to discuss the whole problem. So, I had to manage the whole thing. Senior juniors, juniors, juniors, juniors, juniors, juniors, juniors, juniors, juniors, juniors, juniors, juniors. During senior, you have to respect the senior. You cannot force them to do this work. I told them that I would like you to give me this much time. I told them that if you do not do this, I will face these problems. They took this seriously and did their work on time. It is important to have a good team. Sir, it is important to deal with any problem. Anurag, do you have mentors in your team? Yes, there were two mentors in my team, and they guided us very well. They shared their experience like we were making an app, there was a problem. They sorted it out with their experience and gave a lot of new suggestions. Mentors are very good in hackathon. You told me that you had an online experience and once you had an offline experience. How did you notice the major difference because it was definitely online and the second one was offline. How did you notice the major difference? Okay. During online, we got a three-digit service. When the judge gave us some input, we got a good time to solve it. But during offline, you get an evolution in the morning, in the evening, in the night. So you get less time, but the advantage is when you get a presser, you get more output. So the offline solution was better because it visualized you and your competitor was better according to whether it was good or not. The offline solution was better and we were more satisfied with the design. When your competition is with you, your productivity increases. Okay, tell me what industry experts came because you were in college and the evaluators were industry experts with a lot of experience in the industry. How was your experience and the first time you came and did you understand the benefits of mentoring in the industry? Yes, sir. The industry's mentors have a lot of input. Because you have made something for them. So you will see the presentation that I have done. But what they need is valuable inputs so if you have the results you will get more chances to win. So we did the same we listened to their points and worked on them and gave them the results so we improved in this way. We did the same thing. Finally, before I finish if I ask you directly that 3 or 4 such things you should keep in mind the upcoming teams which will help them towards winning. What will be the result? First of all this presentation should be good which you will submit students will submit that presentation should be good use more flowchart write less than less during the selection if your selection is in top 5 team why? Because you can't go there what will happen there? You will get improvements which you will get in less time. And if you get 5 inputs the jury member said you should do this in 5 minutes so you don't have to do it in 5 minutes if you are doing 3 then do it in 3 minutes so that the competition ends there. If you are able to understand the problems what you have done then this is a very good thing that you will get a lot of learning and you will get a good chance to show your skills. Yes, of course. Anurag, thank you so much you took your time and guided the upcoming teams and we wish you for future projects Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. So people that was Anurag for you so basically what understanding do we get from this talk session was it doesn't matter which city you are coming from it doesn't matter which college you are coming from the basic thing is if you have the talent if you got the idea you can make it through anything and finals has been one of those so for such more interesting and learning videos stay tuned with us and we will be back soon with more enriching and insightful videos for you till then have a good day see you.