Smart India Hackathon evaluator/judge & institute SPOC roles

Judging · Smart India Hackathon

The record at a glance. Every line is drawn from the programme's own pages.

Type	Judging
Organisation	Smart India Hackathon
Open to	Other
Cost	Free to apply. No fee appears on the programme's own pages; this is an absence of a fee rather than a quoted statement.
Cycle	Open now · Annual
Deadline	Grand finale ~late 2026/early 2027 (SPOC registration open now)
Selection	Not stated
Evidence	Verification date not recorded.

What this is

Smart India Hackathon evaluator/judge & institute SPOC roles is a judging run by Smart India Hackathon. Open to other. Free to apply. No fee appears on the programme's own pages; this is an absence of a fee rather than a quoted statement.

Who it is for

Industry experts/academicians serve on judging panels per node; institute SPOCs run campus hackathons and coordinate; evaluator & SPOC certificates are issued (site-published).

Eligibility

Judges nominated per ministry/node (no public judge application found); SPOC registration open for institutes/colleges.

How you apply

unknown

When it closes

Open now. The source states: Grand finale ~late 2026/early 2027 (SPOC registration open now)

Source note: confidence=0.7 next_occurrence=Grand finale ~late 2026/early 2027 (SPOC registration open now)

How competitive it is

On selectivity, the source says: Nodal selection; SPOC = open registration for institutions

Getting in: open to approach.

Roughly 3 hours to prepare an application.

What it produces

If you take part, the documentation this tends to generate:

Potential profile relevance

The activity type each pathway's published criteria name, and nothing more than that. This is a description of an activity, not an assessment of eligibility, and it is not legal advice — see the disclosures.

Activity type, matched to the criteria that name it.
Pathway	Activity type	Why it is listed
O-1A	Judging the work of others	This opportunity involves judging.
EB-1A	Judging the work of others	This opportunity involves judging.
EB-2 NIW	Judging the work of others	This opportunity involves judging.

Disclosures

Official source

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Dates, criteria and eligibility change. Everything on this page was read from the programme's own pages, and the page you open is the authority, not this one.

Verification date not recorded.

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