VIT students' project bags championship prize

Bhimavaram: An automatic cleaning machine (for solar panels) produced by electrical engineering students of Vishnu Institute of Technology VIT) here won overall championship prize at start up competition held in Hyderabad by 'The Indus Entrepreneurs' (TiE).

Disclosing this at a press conference, the college director and principal Dr D Suryanarayana has said that the winning team was invited to a international contest organised by TiE Global at California in the USA. The college faculty member Mahabub Hussain and student Prasanna Kumar participated in the contest in California.

While 17 teams worldwide attended for the contest, Vishnu was the only institute represented Andhra Pradesh. The Vishnu team received $2,000 cash rewards announced by firms Amazon Web Service and Microsoft Azure, he added.