Subject: Smart India Hackathon (SIH) Junior 2022.

🔺Ministry of Education’s Innovation Cell (MIC), in coordination with All India Council for
Technical Education (AICTE), has launched Smart India Hackathon (SIH) 2022 and this year
they also want school students to participate by submitting innovative ideas and concepts.

🔺In the last 5 years, SIH has evolved into the world’s largest Open Innovation Model to solve some of the pressing problems we face in our daily lives, and thus inculcate a culture of product innovation and problem-solving mind-set.

🔺Moreover, the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India has applauded the SIH initiative on multiple occasions which has helped to kick-start the hackathon culture in India.

🔺The previous editions of SIH have proven to be extremely beneficial for the students of higher education institutes in establishing start-ups and employment opportunities in various organisations.

🔺Keeping the spirit of doing better year on year, this year SIH-2022 welcomes the participation from school students (6 to 12 Class) under SIH Junior track.

🔺Single Point of Contact (SPOC) registration for the school faculty is now open on the SIH Portal (www.sih.gov.in).

🔺The SPOC can nominate school student teams against various themes including Toys, Healthcare, Smart Education etc. available on the official website of SIH-2022.

🔺SIH-2022 will enable students to get hands-on experience and will motivate them to emerge
as problem solvers and innovators.

🔺The guidelines and process flow for SIH Junior are available in the attached Annexure A.

Thank you