2022, Contests

2022 VPT Contest:

Viswanathan

Credits: Shanmugavel V

PSG COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY, COIMBATORE

DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

ONLINE VENMURASU PROGRAMMING TEAM QUALIFIER CONTEST

The total duration of the qualifier contest will be 12 hrs. (8:00am – 8:00pm) on 31/12/2022.

Objective

  • The objective of this contest is to qualify the teams to do a 3 months project (Jan 2023- Mar 2023)
  • The details of the list of projects to select from will be shared after this qualifier contest.

Pre-requisites

  • Basic knowledge on how to use Git.
  • A public GitHub repository to upload code and data.
  • Team of 3 students (maximum of 5)

Task

  • Task focuses on building a simple web application using external API using a programming language(s) of your choice. (Note: Web application details will be shared to the teams only on 31/12/2022 at 8.00am through the registered email)

Submission

  • Complete the task by the deadline and submit the code through a publicly accessible github repository.
  •  For any doubts/clarifications regarding the contest, please go to the Issues and raise your question (without posting your code or implementation details)
  • Please document your strategy of implementation in detail in the repo’s README
  • Results would be announced within a week after the deadline.

Selection

Teams will be qualified based on the following criteria:

  • Could successfully build/compile the application based on instructions (weightage – 10%)
  • Search functionality implemented and working (weightage – 30% )
  • Usability and User Interface (weightage – 20% )
  • Display the details when selected (weightage – 10% )
  • Code quality and documentation (weightage – 20% )
  • Web Application is hosted in a public accessible site (weightage – 10%)

Prize Money:

Cash award: ₹ 25,000 and certificates will be given to the teams based on the performance of the 3 months project. Thank you John Miller, Principal Software Engineer, Ridecell for sponsoring part of the contest.

Registration Link:

Contest is open to students of PSG Tech, Coimbatore, India. Registration link will be sent through your registered email id.

Participation:

24 teams entered the contest. 11 teams submitted their code. 6 teams were selected for project round. You can find the project details here: https://github.com/venmurasu-programming-team/2022-vpt-projects

Judges:

Mahendrarajan Chandrasekaran, CTO & Co-founder, Terrantic Inc
Arulraj V, Senior Technical Lead, View Inc.
Viswanathan Mahalingam, Sr.Director of Engineering, Ridecell Inc

Results:

🥇 Winning Team: 

For creating a custom search plugin for mediawiki sites like https://tamil.wiki/

Code: https://github.com/AkashSCIENTIST/TamilWikiSearch

Akash S P
Harishankar S
Pradhip Kumar J
A A Subash
Muthu Vijay Y

🥈 Runners-up: 

Finetune AI4Bharat model with literary domain specific corpus:

Rahul Gunaseelan
Srivathsan B
Hariharan C P
Karthick Subramanian V
Tharun Prasath A S