🚀 Feature Sleuths – 3-Hour Feature Engineering Challenge

Organized by RUAS AI Club as part of Pravrutti National Tech Fest

 

🔍 Think you can outsmart data? In this high-stakes competition, your mission is to build the smartest feature engineering pipeline under time pressure. A raw dataset + a fixed ML model = your chance to prove your data intuition, creativity, and technical skill.

 

💡 Event Highlights:

 

Duration: 3 Hours

 

Raw dataset revealed at the start

 

Focus only on feature engineering (no model tuning)

 

Evaluation on predictive accuracy, pipeline efficiency & feature innovation

 

Solo or team participation (up to 3 members)

 

🏆 Prize Pool: ₹45,000

💰 Registration Fee: ₹200 per team

📅 Date: 16th October 2025

⏰ Time: 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM

📍 Venue: MSRUAS RTC Campus, Peenya, Bengaluru

 

📌 Brochure: tinyurl.com/58epftu8

 

📝 Register here: tinyurl.com/4p3wzua8

 

For queries, contact:

Isa Aminah – 9482164889

Sathvik S – 6364485806

Requirements

Problem Statement will be announced in the venue

Participants will have 3 hours to submit their solution

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

45,000 in prizes
1st Prize
20,000 in cash
1 winner

2nd Prize
15,000 in cash
1 winner

3rd Prize
10,000 in cash
1 winner

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Will be announced

Will be announced

Judging Criteria

  • Test data accuracy
    Participants will be judged on the model's performance on test data

Questions? Email the hackathon manager

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