The guidelines.

• Each team would mandatorily comprise of minimum 4 and maximum of 6 members including the team leader.
• Students can be members of one team only.
• Intercollege teams are also allowed.

• It is mandatory that the team leader enters the details for his/her team. Team details once entered cannot be altered. The team leader will be responsible for ensuring that all the data entered by him/her is accurate.
• The team's name should be unique and must not contain the name of your institute in any form.
• Registration Fee : ₹500 for teams of 4–5 members, or ₹600 for a 6-member team.
• International teams, before registration, please email inc@pict.edu or ms0930k@gmail.com
• Each team can submit multiple ideas. However, for each idea new registration (including registration fees) is required.
• The teams registered for TechFiesta shall be allowed to participate in Impetus and Concepts 2027 other subevents (free of charges). However, such teams must register for those events separately.
• Separate link will be provided for TechFiesta teams for registration in Impetus and Concepts.

Further instructions will be addressed via a meet after all the registration are completed.

• Novelty of the idea to address the problem
• Approach to explore idea
• Feasibility & Complexity
• Approach towards implementing the system and future use cases
• Clarity & details in the presentation as a team and a QnA
• Time constraint for online presentation is 10 min of presentation + 5 min of QnA. Total of 15 minutes for each team

• Nominated Team's team leader will get the notifications through mail to complete the idea submission process.
• The last date for team nomination and idea submission by team leader on portal is tentatively last week of December. No request will be entertained after the deadline.

• Post Idea submission process, the ideas will be evaluated by experts from industry.
• Evaluation criteria will include novelty of the idea, complexity, clarity and details in the prescribed format, feasibility, practicability, sustainability, scale of impact, user experience, and potential for future work progression.

• TechFiesta PICT-Hackathon 2027's pre-final rounds will be held online.
• The tentative date for these rounds will be tentatively Last Week of December OR First Week of January 2027.
• The final round will be held offline and will be held tentatively Last week of February 2027.

• Notification about selected teams will be put up on our portal and PICT website and will also be sent to their respective email IDs.
• Be available for meetings, sessions and training during the preparation phase; you will be notified about them in advance.