OVERVIEW

Make-a-thon is organised by Idiots Room (E-Cell, DBIT) for the

interdisciplinary students of DBCL to collaborate for a period of a month to
ideate, create & deliver solutions to various challenges & problems. Make-a-thon
offers a competitive platform for entrepreneurial students to pursue an idea that
they are passionate about. The ideas will be sustainable in nature, and they may
be local or global in scope, encompassing social or environmental dimensions.
Working in teams, and in collaboration with faculty mentors, students will
develop their idea over three rounds of the competition. The level of detail will
increase with each submission, and finally the teams will pitch their idea to a
panel of judges in the final round.

Make-a-Thon 2020 focuses on enabling students to use their creativity to

innovate and explore new ideas that they may have. It is a competition, but it is
focused on learning rather than winning. Its purpose is to help students gain
experience with the process of design and the use of equipment that they would
normally miss out on in the classroom.

Due to the ongoing pandemic, Make-a-Thon 2020 will be conducted online

this year. The problem-statements for Make-a-Thon 2020 will be selected from
the domains provided by the Make-a-Thon organizers. The event will kick-start
by challenging the participants to come up with an innovative solution to their
problem statements and then work and develop a prototype/model/blueprint
during the phase of Ideation. Solutions can be based on hardware and software
projects and will be refined based on feedback from faculty and industry experts.
The event will conclude with judging by a panel followed by prize distribution
and incubation.
PROBLEM STATEMENTS FOR MAKE-A-THON
Teams need to select a domain name given below where they can make a product
on their own Problem Statement. The Problem Statement need to be within the
domain and should be submitted during registration process only.

Domains for MAKE-A-THON 2020:

• INNOVATION RELATED TO COVID-19

a. Fake news detection and debunking.
b. Personal Hygiene and Protection.
c. Supply Chains: Solutions that aid efficient distribution of essential
commodities.
d. Develop a video conferencing solution showing capabilities in terms
of scalability, market value and domestic value addition.

• HEALTHCARE AND BIOMEDICAL DEVICES

a. Harmful effects on human health due to the hazardous food colour
(which are synthetic pigment) like anaemia, kidney and liver disease,
lead poisoning.
b. Conventional X-ray image is not effective to explain about disease to
patients (Required colour mapped X-ray image which looks like real
teeth with disease).
c. Design portable inhalation device for chronic asthma
d. A real time monitoring system for yoga practitioners.
• RENEWABLE ENERGY
a. Retro fitting of electric kit in existing IC engine scooters for making
electric and petrol hybrid scooters.
b. Temperature regulator for solar water heater.
c. Solar panel can be used only for limited application and whatever the
energy stored cannot be transferred at grid side.
d. To reduce power loss due to squirrel cage rotor in solar operated
induction motor drive.

• WASTE MANGEMENT
a. To develop automatic irrigation system by use of waste water for lawn
and garden.
b. Device to manage waste part of vegetable available from canteen of an
institute (about 10-15kg daily) which creates dump site & bad odours
in nearby places.
c. To recycle grey water from kitchen, washing machine to reuse it for
flushing of toilets.
d. To differentiate between dry & wet waste automatically while
throwing a dust in dustbin.

• AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT

a. Design a device to categorize different varieties of seeds depending
upon the quality.
b. Design dynamic advertising system which controls all the advertising
display remotely. The user can change advertisement remotely locally
because there is no internet connectivity.
 • FOOD AND WATER SECURITY
a. Develop a device to check the harmful chemicals in vegetables/fruits.
b. Design a device to measure steroid content in milk/meat products.
c. Develop an app to monitor the water intake of the person with
considering important parameters like weight, height and age.

• SMART EDUCATION
a. All in one app where we can have complete smart services for
university related to cleanliness, lost & found, canteen orders, event
notifications, etc.
b. Develop a recommendation system for the users of library. The users
should get personalized recommendations based on the information of
previous readings. Information like reading patterns, authors, reading
style, and book read status, rating, similar interest/topics, etc. can be
used as input to give recommendations.
c. Develop a solution for hostel management.The solution should provide
features for allocation of room to the, reallocation of room, no. of
rooms vacant, no. of students from a particular institute in a particular
hostel building etc. The application should allow report generation
(student wise, building wise, no. of rooms vacant/occupied etc).
d. Design an interactive map of the university, including indoor maps that
locate classrooms, laboratories etc.

(Note: For all Problem Statements, use of IOT/ML or any other technology for
making the product more efficient is allowed.)
ROUND 1:
After selection of a problem statement, the student has to send their presentation
(ppt slides) on their problem statement and the solution which will be judged by
a panel of judges.
The presentation should consist of:
1. The Problem Statement.
2. The Scale/Relevance and analysis of the Problem.
3. The Solution to the Problem in detail.
4. The development or the formulation of the solution.
5. The implementation of the solution.
6. Scale of impact of the solution.

ROUND 2:
The students have to upload a video of their working models on the respective
link provided by the volunteers. In case of software projects, they have to upload
the video of the output with suitable examples. In case of hardware projects, they
are given a choice to only upload a blueprint/ CAD models if the components are
not available in their vicinity. The duration of each video should be 2-5 mins.

ROUND 3:
Each team has to give a presentation over video conference to a panel of judges
followed by Q&A round by the panel. The time limit for the presentation is 10
minutes. The presentation will include the presentation submitted in Round 1
along with a business proposal as mentioned in the guidelines below. The
duration of this round will be 15- 20 minutes per team.
GUIDELINES FOR FINAL PRESENTATION:
• Description of the identified problem
• Why is the identified problem worth solving?
• Target Audience- Who and how are they affected?
• Solution to the identified problem
• Benefits of your solution to the society
• USP (Unique Selling Proposition)
• Scalability and effectiveness of the product
• Eco-friendly factor
• Existing alternatives in the market- your product v/s alternatives
• Channels- Process of providing service or product manufacturing and
Distribution
• Cost structure and revenue streams
RULES FOR MAKE-A-THON
• Each participant would be a called a ‘Maker’, and can form teams of 1-4
Makers per team.
• All teams need to register before 30th August 2020 with their problem
statement.
• A student can be a maker in only one team.
• All teams would be assigned a faculty mentor and volunteer from the
organising committee. Any queries throughout the competition would be
answered by your respective Volunteers.
• Teams need to work according to the given timeline.
• All the teams have to make either a working model or a prototype to be
eligible for Round 3.
• The final product should be made by the team themselves and outsourcing
of the product will lead to disqualification of the team.
• The teams have to make a proper video showing the working model or
prototype of their respective projects and submit it as per the timeline.
TIMELINE OF EVENT
Stage 1: 30th August 2020

Idea submission deadline

Stage 2: 1st September 2020

Shortlisting and assigning of Faculty Mentor and a volunteer to each team.

Stage 3: 8th September 2020

Uploading presentation on how the team is working to build their product

(Download the guidelines for presentation from the link given below).

Stage 4: 17th September 2020

Inspection on how the teams are making the prototype or the working model
through a recorded video of not more than 5 minutes.

Stage 5: 21th – 28th September 2020

All the teams will be assigned a unique timing slot for online meet and need to
give a presentation on the final day along with the explanation of the product
followed by Q&A session with the panel. (Download the guidelines for
presentation from the link given below)

Guidelines for Presentation: http://bit.ly/Makeathon-Guidelines

For Queries, contact:

Shubhangi +918879523845
Vallie +918424837253