Persistent Systems hold smart school hackathon, may work with Atal Innovation Mission

PUNE: After having established the Smart India Hackathon as a national level event, Persistent SystemsNSE -1.34 % today held the pilot edition of the Smart School Hackathon for students in class 7-9, in collaboration with the Persistent Foundation and i4c. The company is now working with the Atal Innovation Mission to grow this further.

Vivek Kulkarni, Delivery Head & Chief Architect, Persistent LABS, Persistent Systems and Secretary, Executive Council, i4C said, “For India to remain at the forefront of global technical leadership, we must seed innovative thinking in young minds from the school level itself.” The next step, he said, would to take this to Tier II cities,