PM Modi Felicitates Winners Of First India-Singapore Hackathon 2018

SINGAPORE: PM Modi today felicitated the six winning teams, including three from India, of the first India-Singapore Hackathon, a platform for the youth of the two countries to harness and showcase their innovations.

The top six teams, three each from India and Singapore, participated in a 36-hour Hackathon Grande Finale in Singapore.

PM Modi presented the awards to the winning teams at an awards ceremony which was also attended by Education Minister of Singapore Ong Ye Kung.

The winning teams from India were IIT Kharagpur, NIT Trichy and MIT College of Engineering, Pune, the Indian High Commission in Singapore said.

The winning teams from Singapore comprised Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), it said in a statement.

From India, an 83-member delegation comprising 60 students, 20 mentors and three officials of the AICTE visited Singapore for the event which PM Modi said is a “boost to technology, innovation and youth power”.

PM Modi also met cadets of the National Cadet Corps (NCC) today. NCC cadets are in Singapore as a part of a cadet exchange programme.

First prize of Singapore Dollar 10,000, second prize of SGD 6,000 and third prize of SGD 4,000 was announced for each of the three winners from India and Singapore.

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