Opportunity brief
Overview:
A team-based electronics and innovation event where participants bid for components using virtual credits and then build their own creative working project using the resources they acquire.
Eligibility:
- Open to undergraduate students from any branch/specialization.
- Inter-college teams are allowed.
- Inter-specialization teams are allowed.
- Team size: 3 - 5 members.
- A participant can be part of only one team.
Format:
- Each team receives a fixed amount of virtual credits.
- Common/basic components are to be bought using these credits.
- Special/limited components are auctioned and can be bought using remaining credits after buying the basic components.
- Teams must strategically bid and manage their budget.
- After the auction, teams can build any project they want using only the components/resources they acquired.
- Teams design, assemble, program and demonstrate their project.
- Projects are evaluated based on functionality, creativity, technical implementation and efficient use of resources.
- Auction: 1.5-2 hours
- Build & Design: 2.5 hours
- Final Demonstration & Evaluation: 30 minutes
- Total Duration: Approximately 4.5-5 hours.
Rules:
- Each team will receive the same initial amount of virtual credits.
- Teams must use only the components/resources they have acquired through the permitted event mechanisms.
- Teams may not secretly obtain components from other teams or external sources.
- Any resource trade must be approved by the event coordinators.
- Components cannot be exchanged after the trading period closes.
- Teams must not interfere with another team's circuit, code, components, or workspace.
- Any attempt to gain an unfair advantage through unauthorized hardware, software, communication, or external assistance may result in disqualification.
- Only low-voltage components supplied/approved by the organizers may be used.
- Teams are responsible for handling the components assigned to them.
- The organizers' decision regarding rule violations and scoring will be final.
- Any resource trade must be approved by the event coordinators.
- Components cannot be exchanged after the trading period closes.
Objective:
To encourage participants to think creatively, make strategic engineering decisions and develop a functional project under limited resources, budget and time constraints.
- Registration Fee: Rs.250 per team
- Prizepool: Rs.20k
Top 3 teams get to keep what they build!!!