Google India Hackathon
Ramaiah Institute of Technology
📌 About the Event
The Google India Hackathon is an elite, high-stakes developer sprint co-organized by DeepStation and the Ramaiah Institute of Technology (MSRIT), in official partnership with Google and the National Digital Library of India.
This event brings together top student developers and software engineers to build cutting-edge artificial intelligence and cloud applications. To accelerate development, the hosts are deploying dedicated infrastructure support providing free API and platform computing credits to over 75 selected teams. Submissions will be vetted live by an elite jury panel composed of senior engineers from Google, IBM, and MSRIT.
ℹ️ Event Overview
- Category: National Deep-Tech & Artificial Intelligence Hackathon.
- Organizers: DeepStation & Ramaiah Institute of Technology (MSRIT).
- Corporate Partners: Google & National Digital Library of India.
- Venue: On-Ground / In-Person Hack.
- Location: Ramaiah Institute of Technology Campus, M S R Nagar, Mathikere, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560054.
- Target Audience: Open to student developers, AI researchers, and programming teams based in India.
- Admission Cost: Free (Subject to Host Selection & Approval).
📅 Critical Timeline
The event runs as a continuous multi-day building sprint, operating on strict, precise venue hours:
- Hackathon Window: May 8 to May 10, 2026 (Friday to Sunday).
- Daily Operational Hours: 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM IST.
- Day 1 (May 8) Launch Schedule:
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09:00 AM:On-Ground Venue Walk-in & Team Check-in. 10:00 AM:Official Opening Ceremony & Prompt/API Key Distribution.
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🛡️ Mandatory Technical Acceptance Criteria
To qualify for evaluation and prizes, projects must actively integrate at least one of the following official Google developer ecosystems into their core technical architecture:
- Gemini API: Leveraging Google’s state-of-the-art multimodal LLMs for intelligent data processing, agentic workflows, or synthetic media generation.
- Google ADK: Utilizing Google’s App Development Kit protocols to build smooth, scalable cross-platform software wrappers.
- Google Antigravity: Harnessing advanced next-gen Google software stacks and performance-tuning infrastructure layers.
💰 Prizes & Financial Bounties
The total cash purse is sponsored directly by DeepStation and awarded to the top three podium finishers:
- 🏅 1st Place (Grand Champions): ₹50,000 Cash Reward
- 🥈 2nd Place (Runners-up): ₹30,000 Cash Reward
- 🥉 3rd Place (Third Position): ₹20,000 Cash Reward
- ⚡ Infrastructure Incentives: Top 75 teams (up to 350 individual developers) will be granted FREE development credits to fully fuel their applications during the live hacking blocks.
⚖️ Rules & System Guardrails
- Approval Bottleneck: Submitting a registration request does not guarantee entry. Because physical tickets are heavily constrained, all team applications undergo a strict profile screening by the host team before receiving an official invite code.
- On-Ground Mandate: This is a localized building sprint at MSRIT Bengaluru. Remote submissions or virtual project pitches will not be accepted.
- Originality Guardrails: All code repositories must be initiated live on Day 1. Pre-built corporate products or re-skinned existing projects will face immediate disqualification by the Google and IBM jury panel.