3x Final Year Hackathons

3rd Hackathon

Let's start with the 3rd and most recent one first, 10 most boring hackathon hours.
14th, April 2026 -PIET, Panipat

This hackathon is the shortest one yet, there was a local software company organising this hackathon in the ironically assumed best, local Amity.

Let's introduce the first important character,
Anmol, he is my classmate and fellow frontend developer, good skills, great communication, just not ourside the tech part.

Back to hackathon 3, we don't even know the project of winning team so yeah, unironically local Amity, but there were 2 more team members from class itself, me and Anmol somehow made an e-commerce jewellery store with payment integration and everything. sigh of relief

2nd Hackathon

DTU: Damn that college is huge, once again biggest.
16-17th January -DTU, New Delhi

Brainwave 2.0: This is an interesting one, not the best, we are 4 team members in here, two more character introduction,
Isha Walia: Python developer, contributes to open source and gets bored out of stuff because she want something new to learn everytime.
Priyanka Shah: Crazy hardworking full-stack developer, probably the girl with most programming brain I know, posts videos about her project, explaining them, has an opensource UI library, so on and so forth, wish I was this consistent.

boring part, but needed
What was om the table: "AI integrated pendant, with speech to text and reasoning capabilities to summarize your meetings and daily conversations on the go."

Vegetables: Raspberry PI, ElevenLabs, Sarvam, NextJS, React Native.

The cooks and the crooks:
Anmol and Priyanka on the backend and integration part.
Isha, was our moral support, context manager and testing person.
Suryansu (me), working on the mobile UI and landing interface and integration.

started with my favourite thing, eating, then we ate again, and slept and woke up and went home, ~jokes apart
The cooking process: Priyanka had a friend in hardware, so she had a headstart about what to do, but we did what we like for 4 hours, then gathered context, started working on it, worked well spent 8+ hours cooking stuff in kitchen,
Oh yeah, the kitchen, it was an american teenage movie like, gym area, crazy good space, hardware people sitting seperately from software ones.
Good experience, met some people from other states and colleges and didn’t make a single connection, ggs.

First round, we thought, the project was smooth, failed once in front of the first judge, he let it pass, tried again worked, 90%. Ran out of tokens, haha modern problems

Back to cooking, working on it honestly was new, one of us left, we are 3 stuck with a broken app, we fixed it. Results were announced in morning, hehe, top 16 atleast.

1st Hackathon

Cool cool, now where it all started...