Bengaluru: Tally Solutions has successfully concluded the fourth edition of Tally CodeBrewers, a national-level coding hackathon for engineering students. The event was focused on bridging industry skill gaps and fostering domain capabilities in India’s emerging tech talent, the company said in a press release.
This year’s event marked the largest-ever Tally CodeBrewers, with participation of around 26,000 students, with more than 17,000 team registrations from 1,300 colleges nationwide.
Overall, 6 teams comprising 18 future engineers were awarded in the 2024 edition. These students belonged to some of the key technology colleges in India including IIT Roorkee, IIIT Sri City, VIT Pune, GEU Dehradun, MSRIT Bangalore, ABV IIIT-Gwalior, Academy of Technology Kolkata, and IIITDM Kancheepuram.
The hackathon was open to engineering students from the second year onwards pursuing a full-time B Tech, B.E or dual-degree across India. 198 teams were selected to compete in an intense 48-hour weekend hackathon across two problem statements that participants could choose between. Commander of Full Stack which required participants to create an online coding platform that enables users to write and execute code and Wizard of System Programming which required designing an efficient file-sharing system that allows administrators to initiate file transfers to a group of systems within the organization efficiently and securely.
13 finalist teams from round-two were invited to Tally office in Bangalore for a live demo before a distinguished panel of jury followed by a felicitation ceremony for the winners.
On the event, Nabendu Das, Head of Engineering & Product Management, Tally Solutions, said, “At Tally, we have always been focused on fostering equitable skills and domain capabilities for emerging engineering talent in the country. Over the years, we have been anchoring multiple initiatives through our robust campus program to connect academia to the industry, thereby enhancing the tech skill capital in the nation. Tally CodeBrewers, our annual flagship is another constituent in this journey, and over the years, we have engaged with over 40,000 engineering students. The objective has been to inculcate and promote the passion for innovation, creative thinking, and problem-solving in the next generation of engineers.”
In the Wizard of System Programming, Team Echelon from VIT, Pune, which consists of Manglesh Nimbalkar, Jayant Patil, and Rutvik Kachgunde, bagged the position of winner.
In the Commander of Full Stack, team Hacksmiths from ABV IIIT, Gwalior, including Kshitij Gupta, Akshitha Mittpally, and Harsh Dalwadi, were the winners.