Octahacks 3.0
Tags: productivity, career, projects, innovation
Published: 2020-11-17 17:48:37

**OctaHacks** is the annual flagship event of **DSC, Chitkara University**, where innovators get an opportunity to merge their creative ideas with their technical skills to build something exemplary. It's a place where your ideas will get acknowledged.
This November, OctaHacks is back with it's third edition, **OctaHacks 3.0**. Expect more than 36 hours of inspiring panel discussions, working and collaborating on futuristic and empowering tech products, networking opportunities with budding developers and lots of fun!

##**History**
Octahacks was started in 2018 with having a vision of encouraging the young innovators at the National level to build something **exemplary**. Something that will make the life of the community easy to live in.
![octahacks2](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/oxrcixezkh009o1n8cnr.jpg)
 
 

##**Octahacks = Octa + Hacks**
The title of this Hackathon itself implies about the **Eight** different tracks that are available in which you can brainstorm and think-design-build something innovative.
The list of tracks available is:-
1.Smart-City 
2.Security
3.Fintech
4.Health
5.Environment
6.Education
7.Business
8.Women Security
![tracks](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/vkcyk3d1fvjet1xxd4pu.JPG)
 

##**Sponsors**
Every event is possible with the help of Sponsors. This year we
have :-
1.DevFolio
2.NewGenIED Chitkara University
3.Fold
4.Matic
5.Tezos
6.Portis
7.Wolfram
8.Coding Blocks
9.Balsamiq
10.Todoist
11.Sashido
12.GiveMyCertificate
13.Axure
14.1Password
15.JetBrains
16.Bubble
17.repl.it

###**Platform Partners**
1.[Airmeet](https://www.airmeet.com/)
2.[StreamYard](https://streamyard.com/)

###**Community Partners**
1.[GDG Jalandhar](https://www.instagram.com/gdgjalandhar/)
2.[DSC Mt.San Antonio College](https://dsc.community.dev/mt-san-antonio-college/)
3.[GDG Chandigarh](https://www.instagram.com/gdgchandigarh/)
4.[Flutter Chennai](https://www.instagram.com/flutterchennai/)
5.[Developer Circles Chandigarh](https://www.instagram.com/devcsp/)
6.[Flutter Chandigarh](https://www.instagram.com/flutterchd/)
7.[IEEE-CIET](https://www.instagram.com/ieeeciet/)
8.[Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador](https://studentambassadors.microsoft.com/)


##How to **Register**?
To Register for Octahacks 3.0 you can visit [www.octahacks.tech](https://www.octahacks.tech) from where you will be redirected to **DevFolio** .Firstly, you will have to create an account, then setting up your profile and then registering for this Hackathon.
You can participate in a Team (max 4 members) or participate as an individual.
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##**Judges**
To Judge the innovative projects out.
1.**Kamal Vaid**
  Google Certified Android Developer | Technology Lead 
  at Infosys | GDE For Google Assistant 
2.**Vrijraj Singh**
  Organizer, GDG Jalandhar | Google Developers Expert 
  for Firebase & Web Technologies
3.**Tushar Srivastava**
  Technical Project Lead at Huawei Technologies India
4.**Niharika Arora**
  GDE for Android | Contributor @ Aarogya Setu | Active Community 
  Contributor | Gold Medalist
5.**Mohit Uniyal**
  Instructor and Product Engineer at Coding Blocks | Mentor 
  @TensorFlow at Google Code-in.
6.**Suraj Kumar**
  SDE-2 @V-Comply


##**Mentors**
To guide you throughout your journey.
1.**Sai Siddartha Maram**
SDE Intern @Invento Robotics
2.**Saurabh Thakur**
SDE @smallcase, GSoC 19 @AOSSIE
3.**Chetan Kaushik**
Product Engineer at GOJEK | Founder at TheAlgorithms | GSOC'17 @FOSSASIA
4.**Harsha Vardhan**
Software Engineer at Microsoft IDC | Student Researcher
5.**Vedant B.**
Research Intern @UPenn | Chair IEEE CIS | Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador | Data Scientist
6.**Abhay Sharma**
Frontend Engineer @Smallcase
7.**Madhur Gupta**
Android @bim | GSoC'20 @Wikimedia
8.**Jai Kathuria**
Developer • Learner • Designer
9.**Nikhil Bansal**
Android Engineer @Mutual Mobile | Open Source Contributor | Tech Speaker  | Mentor and Reviewer 
10.**Sagar Choudhary**
SDE-II @Airmeet | Mentor and Project Reviewer
11.**Ayon Roy**
Speaker | Doing ML Deep Learning AI Data Science Python @ FinTech | Hackathons | Internships | Community @ Kaggle Days

##**Student Mentors**
To be there and help students whenever they need help.
1.**Pragati Verma**
Full Stack Web Developer | Expert of Frontend, Backend and Project Management.
2.**Himanshu Sharma**
Flutter Developer | Open Source Contributor | Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador | Writer
3.**Vanshika Garg**
SDE-CRIS | DSC Lead | GHCI'20 Scholar | EATON Pratibha Scholar | Chapter Lead at Girlscript Foundation | 21 Under 21 awardee | Python mentor at Tesseract Coding
4.**Arsh Goyal**
SDE Intern @ Samsung and ISRO | Explore ML Facilitator by Google Crowdsource

##**Fun-Time**
To give this virtual hackathon a real feel of offline one we will be having game nights.
To relieve out the stress our Team will be hosting some quizzes & games with live streaming on YouTube.
![funtime](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/oe7ctcifv76mzd616crw.JPG)
 

##**Prizes**
Making this Version 3.0 bigger than previous versions,**Prizes** worth **4 Lacs** will be distributed. The goodies and the swags will be directly shipped to your given shipment details.

For more Details you can visit us at [www.octahacks.tech](https://www.octahacks.tech).
You can mail your queries at help@octahacks.tech
Till then stay tuned [**@dsc_ciet**] (https://www.instagram.com/dsc_ciet).