Archive · 16 Dec 2025
Hyderabad Team Wins Smart India Hackathon 2025
A team of six students from Hyderabad won a big competition called the Smart India Hackathon 2025.
They went to IIT Roorkee and competed for five days.
Their team, called Caffeinated Coders, made a special machine that helps farmers.
This machine is cheap and easy to carry, and it helps farmers work better without doing too much hard work.
The government gave them a prize of ₹1.5 lakh for their great idea.
Everyone at their school is very happy and proud of them.
A six-member team from Hyderabad won the Smart India Hackathon 2025 Grand Finale at IIT Roorkee.
The team, Caffeinated Coders, developed a low-cost, portable jute ribboning machine for farmers.
The hackathon was organized by the Ministry of Education’s Innovation Cell from December 8 to 12, 2025.
The team secured a cash prize of ₹1.5 lakh for their innovative solution.
The machine aims to enhance farm productivity and reduce manual labour, earning high praise from evaluators.
- Who
- Six-member student team from Hyderabad named Caffeinated Coders
- What
- Won the Smart India Hackathon 2025 with a low-cost, portable jute ribboning machine
- When
- December 8 to 12, 2025
- Where
- IIT Roorkee, Tinkering Lab
- Why
- To enhance farm productivity and reduce manual labour
- Event
- Smart India Hackathon 2025 Grand Finale
- Location
- IIT Roorkee
- Organizer
- Ministry of Education’s Innovation Cell, Government of India
- Team Name
- Caffeinated Coders
- Prize
- ₹1.5 lakh
- Problem Statement
- SIH25267 (Low-cost, portable jute ribboning machine)
- Mentors
- Dr Mujeeb Hasan and Mohammed Waseemuddin
