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Your abstract — five questions

Answer five questions.
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Two things to send: your answers to five questions here, and the organisers’ registration form, filled in separately by every person on your team — one response each. Make an account so your answers are saved as you write them, and so you can come back before the deadline to change them or check where your abstract stands. One account per team — whoever is leading.

Abstracts close 8 October 2026, 2:15 pm Hackathon 10–11 October 2026 IIT (BHU) Varanasi Prize pool ₹1,00,000

Closes Thursday 8 October 2026, 2:15 pm

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Your abstract — five questions

Answer five questions.
Then register.

Write your answers in the box below, in plain text — in order, or as one piece, whichever reads better. About 600 words in total across all five — 4,000 characters. It saves as you type. Before you send, everyone on your team fills in the registration form linked at the bottom, and you tick the box to say so.

Your answers

01What problem did you find, and who has it? Name a real person or organisation — a rider, a fleet, a lender, a workshop, a city.
02How do you know it is real? You watched it happen, you asked someone, or you found data. One honest sentence beats a confident guess.
03What will you build? Software, built at the hackathon.
04What could run in 24 hours? You build from 12:00 on Saturday to 14:00 on Sunday — be honest about how far you expect to get.
05Who is in your team — two or three of you — and who does what?

Your answers to the five questions

A link to a photograph, a chart or a repository is welcome, pasted in as text.

Before you send — registration

Everyone fills in the registration form

The organisers need this from every person on your team — two or three responses, one each, not one for the team. Each of you gives the team lead’s email on the form, so we can match your responses to this abstract. It opens in a new tab — your answers on this page stay saved.

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Everyone on our team has filled in and submitted the registration form. Your abstract can’t be sent without it.

Closes Thursday 8 October 2026, 2:15 pm · you can change it until then

Sending this means the work is yours, and that if you are shortlisted your case study may be published CC-BY-4.0 and your code under MIT, with your names on it.

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we need.

We read for a real, evidenced problem first, and the build you propose second: the problem 30, your evidence 30, the build 20 and your 24-hour plan 20, out of 100. Shortlisted teams hear from us before the hackathon on 10–11 October 2026.

Reference: SHIFT-000000
Status: Submitted
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Changed your mind? You can reopen this and edit it until abstracts close at 2:15 pm on 8 October 2026. Reopening takes it back to draft, so send it again when you are done.

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