HACK TO THE FUTURE - GUJRAT EDITION 2025 BY Quest Alliance

HACK TO THE FUTURE - GUJRAT EDITION 2025 BY Quest Alliance 

• Organized by Quest Alliance in Bengaluru as a residential, interstate hackathon.

• Participants: 57 school students from five states including Gujarat.

• Focus: designing community-driven prototypes (IoT, AI) with themes such as climate change & gender empowerment

Two notable teams from Gujarat:

• Junibodeli Primary School, Chhota Udepur (Team Gujarat) presented ambitious ideas 

• Zarnavadi Primary School, Narmada explored AI/IoT-driven solutions to local challenges 

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🎓 “Hack the Future” – IIT Gandhinagar (Mar 21–23, 2025)

• A 36‑hour national hackathon by IIT Gandhinagar’s IIEC & MoSPI/NSO 

• Themes:

  1. AI/ML predictive model for Monthly Per Capita Expenditure (MPCE)

  2. Semantic search to map text → NIC codes

  3. Legacy data extraction tool 

• Timeline:

  • Applications: Feb 7–28

  • Orientation: Mar 10

  • Hackathon: Mar 21–23

• Prize pool: ₹5.7 lakh (₹2.5 L / ₹1.5 L / ₹1 L + 2 special mentions) 

• Outcomes:

  • 18 finalist teams from top institutes; valedictory ceremony held Mar 23 at IITGN 

  • Winning teams include Plaksha University, IIT Jammu, NMIMS Mumbai, and IIT Vadodara—though no Gujarat institutes won in the national IITGN round 

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🔍 Gujarat's Role & Impact

• Quest Alliance event (Bengaluru): strong representation from Gujarat’s rural primary schools; students applied futures thinking, community empathy, and tech prototyping in a residential setting 

• IITGN national hackathon (Gandhinagar): a broader platform on the Gujarati campus driving national-level data science and AI innovation, though top winners were from other states/institutions 

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✅ In summary:

Aspect	Quest Alliance (Jan)	IITGN MoSPI Hack (Mar)
Audience	School students (Gujarat teams present)	University students & researchers
Location	Bengaluru	Gandhinagar, Gujarat
Themes	Community problems via AI/IoT	Public data & ML tools
Outcomes	Prototypes & mentoring	Cash prizes + national recognition

Let me know if you’d like specifics on team ideas, Gujarat’s impacts, follow‑up incubation, or future editions! 🚀