Kolkata, Sep 3 (UNI) Students of Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of
Higher Education have added yet another feather to the cap as they emerged winners in
the COVID-19 challenge: India Turning the Tide, conducted by the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, USA.
The competition consisted of 10 tracks from A to J, where the students from Manipal
Institute of Technology won Track H: Providing Mental Health Support Resources.
The event took place for 2 days from 28th August 2020 to 30th August 2020; a virtual
48-hour event.
The winning team was called Crosslives and consisted of Ananya Thapliyal (IT) as the
backend developer, Dhruva P Bhat (EEE) as the AI Developer, Dwitrisha Saha (IT) as the
frontend developer, Meghana Rao (EEE) as the backend developer, Pratyaksh Gupta
(EEE) as the IOT developer, Simran Saluja (IT) as the frontend developer and Vishesh
Ghorawat (EEE) as the App developer.
The students bagged the award for their solution on “Intelligent Ubiquitous
Cross-Communication Platform”.
The winning team will be receiving a cash prize of USD 500 along with support and
resources to bring their idea to life, thus allowing a chance to provide additional
resources during this trying period.
CrossLives is going to be an Intelligent Ubiquitous Cross-Communication Platform,
providing better mental health support by removing the language barrier in telehealth.
In an unprecedented pandemic that the entire world is experiencing there is shortfall
of healthcare experts and mental health issues have not been successfully
destigmatised.
The COVID-19 crisis has greatly exaggerated these existing problems in the Indian
Society calling for much needed resources during this period of isolation.
Sharing his happiness on the big win, Pratyaksh Gupta (EEE), MIT, MAHE, said,
“I am thrilled that we Crosslives were chosen as one of the winners in the MIT
COVID-19 Challenge: India Turning Tide. Crosslives is going to be an Intelligent
Ubiquitous Cross-Communication platform, providing better mental health support
by removing the language barrier in telehealth. ”
Celebrating with the team, Dr Srikanth Rao, Director, Manipal Institute of Technology,
MAHE, said, “ We are delighted to see our young sophomores bring out the best of
innovative ideas and winning this prestigious global competition. I congratulate our
students & wish them well for all their future endeavours. "
" We hope the idea gets implemented to help everyone around us, as it is a testing
time with a need for innovation. We encourage our students to continue cultivating
and nurturing such innovative ideas, making their learning experiences more
knowledgeable with the right kind of exposure. This helps their minds to be creative,
curious, agile and resilient. ”
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