Competitions or Hackathons
In UTCN, hackathons are a tool for preparing students for professional or entrepreneurial success. Competitions stimulate creativity, collaboration, and skill development, while serving as platforms for innovation and networking.
Do you organise a competition at UTCN? Let us know at Norina.Herki(at)campus.utcluj.ro
We are currently deploying an online platform for organising hackathons across UTCN. The platform will be based on open source tools like JunctionApp. Good practices to organise hackathons are available at Here.
Competitions organised within UTCN:
International Robot Sumo Competition (Battle Robotica) an event open to students from technical universities in Romania and worldwide. Experienced professors and trainers will guide you through building your robot. Faculty of Electrical Engineering at UTCN and the student organization BEST Cluj-Napoca joined forces to create the Robot Sumo competition.
Invent for the Planet (IFTP), a 48-hour Intensive Design Experience for solving high impact, global problems. Invent for the Planet is based on the successful program at Texas A&M University, called Aggies Invent.
ProInvent, an international salon of research, innovation, and invention, and meeting place for inventors, businesspeople, and entrepreneurs interested in applying the results of research, innovation, and human creativity.
Student idea BOUNcing CompEtition (BOUNCE), an event co-founded by Romanian-American Foundation under the Mini Grant Competition in which the best business ideas in the two categories (environment and innovation) will be awarded and encouraged to be implemented.
Polihack, a bi-annual hackathon of 48 hours for university and high school students organised by OSUT, the student organisation of TUCN. The competition targets four categories: Embedded, AppDev, Web, and Junior.