Hackathons & Campus Events
Stop sponsoring hackathons. Start scouting through them.
Most corporate hackathons produce a photograph, a press mention and a folder of submissions nobody opens again. Udgam turns the same budget into a scouting instrument with a permanent, actionable output.
- Auto-generated microsite
- Structured judging rubric
- Every entrant watchlistable
What is different
The output isn't a winner. It's a ranked talent map.
Every submission is scored on a rubric
Not a gut call from a panel. AI drafts a judging rubric from your problem statement, mapped to specific cognitive levels; you modify it before it goes to judges. Every criterion produces a comparable score.
Judge disagreement is surfaced
Each judge scores independently. The platform computes inter-judge variance and flags where they diverged significantly — so a genuinely strong entry never gets lost to one harsh reviewer.
Every entrant stays reachable
After results, every participant remains on the platform with their submission attached to their profile. You can watchlist any of them and follow their development for the next three years.
Setting one up
A form, a review, and a microsite.
Write the problem statement
Free text or a structured template. Add theme tags, target participant profile, team size, duration, mode and prizes.Confirm the competency mapping
The platform reads your problem statement and suggests which outcomes and cognitive levels it exercises. You confirm or adjust — this is what makes faculty willing to award academic credit for it.Review the judging rubric
Generated from the problem statement and the mapped outcomes. Modify criteria and weights until it reflects what you actually care about.Udgam reviews the listing
Within 24 to 48 hours we check that the problem is specific rather than IP-extractive, prizes are stated without hidden conditions, and judging criteria are defined.The microsite goes live
Branded, with the timeline, prizes, team registration, submission portal and a leaderboard for the judging phase. No separate build.
Who sees it
- Open to every eligible student across every institution on the platform
- Or targeted — named institutions, specific states, accreditation grade, minimum tier, or particular streams
- Or both: visible to all, ranked first for the institutions you care most about
Prizes students can trust
Where a prize pool exceeds ₹50,000, the platform holds the amount in escrow before the event begins and releases it to winners within 14 days of results. Students have been burned by unpaid hackathon prizes often enough that this materially affects who enters.
Why participation is high
Because it counts toward their degree.
For the student
- Academic credit toward the outcomes their faculty has approved
- Tier points — 50 for participation, 200 more for a top-three finish
- A permanent portfolio entry with the submission and the rank
- A visible lift in their placement readiness score
For you
- Participation from students who would otherwise skip it for exam preparation
- Institution-side promotion, because the placement cell wants the engagement counted
- Submissions taken seriously, because they are graded work
- A judged, ranked pool you can recruit from for three years
typical hosting fee per event, depending on scale and exclusivity
hackathons committed by an Engagement Partner in their letter of intent
from results to prize money in a winner's account, released from escrow
The other campus formats
Four more ways to be present on campus, all structured the same way.
| Format | What it involves | What it produces |
|---|---|---|
| Guest lectures | Your employee proposes a topic; the platform maps it to live course outcomes; faculty link it to their course and allocate credit | Students attend and submit a graded reflection. You get named faculty relationships and a scouting signal from the Q&A. |
| Employee mentorship | Your employees register as mentors; the platform matches them to students by domain and development gap | Four to six structured sessions a semester, logged CSR hours, and a contributor badge on your company profile. |
| Sponsored skill modules | Your L&D team builds a short module — video, reading, assessment — tagged to specific outcomes | Students who pass earn your company's verified badge. You see completion counts and which institutions engaged. |
| Campus recruitment drives | End-to-end drive hosted on the platform, approved into the institution's placement calendar | Eligibility-verified registrations, profile-based shortlisting, scheduled interviews, offer management, automatic placement reporting. |
Udgam’s review team rejects hackathon briefs that are vague or IP-extractive. A problem worth a student’s weekend has to be specific enough to solve and honest enough about what happens to the solution.
Innovative Projects
Real business problems. Real student teams. Real outcomes.
Talent Access
India's verified talent — from Nagpur, Coimbatore, Guwahati, not just IITs.
Co-working
Universities and industry, working on the same problems at the same time.
Corporates
Keep exploring
- Why Udgam for CorporatesKnow your next hire three years before you hire them.Read
- Talent Discovery & Verified HiringFilter on cognitive depth, not keywords and CGPA.Read
- 3-Year Early Access ProgrammeWatchlist a student in Year 1. Hire them in Year 4.Read
- Co-working with UniversitiesCurriculum seats, joint labs, IP co-creation.Read
- Partner CommunitiesStructured early access for industry bodies and HR networks.Read
Founding partners
Host the first hackathon on the platform.
Engagement Partners commit to two a year. In exchange, their challenges are the first thing students see when Udgam opens.