Mangaluru, Oct 19, 2015: The first hackathon campus edition event held in the city on October 18, Sunday saw the participation of over 180 enthusiasts from various colleges.
Nidhish Hosabettu, Co-Founder of Start-up Mitra, an online platform for innovators and start-up entrepreneurs informs that as part of the hackathon participants wrote codes to solve a problem. He also states that candidates from winning teams have been offered jobs or internships by two start-up companies of Mangaluru and Bengaluru.
The organisers of the event informed that they have plans to make hackathon a regular event in Mangaluru which has 22 engineering colleges and over 7000 computer science students.