Simplifying Skills logo
Simplifying Skills
Transforming Education

Hackathons, GovPrep, Startup Incubation

Universities that invest in innovation culture see stronger placements, 15-25 LPA+ outcomes, higher academic competitiveness rankings, and significantly more industry partnership enquiries. Simplifying Skills runs the infrastructure. Your institution owns the brand.

Students collaborating around a laptop for events and workshops
Hackathon Ecosystem

Not just one hackathonA year-round innovation culture.

Structured preparation and execution support for national and international competitions including SIH, Imagine Cup, Flipkart Grid, IBM Call for Code, TCS CodeVita, and Infosys HackWithInfy, plus internal campus hackathons to sustain the culture year-round.

📅

Competition Calendar & Prep

Students are guided through preparation timelines for major competitions with milestones set well before deadlines, not a last-minute scramble.

  • SIH, Imagine Cup, Flipkart Grid, IBM, TCS, Infosys
  • Milestone-based prep timeline per competition
  • Guided ideation, prototyping, and pitch coaching
👥

AI Team Formation Engine

AI-assisted team assembly based on complementary skills, ensuring teams are balanced across technical, design, and business domains. Not just friend groups.

  • Skill-complementary team assembly, not random grouping
  • Balance of technical, design, and business skills
  • Team readiness assessment before competition registration
🧑‍🏫

Mentor Connect Network

Industry mentors assigned to promising teams for ideation-to-pitch guidance from product managers, engineers, and entrepreneurs in a curated network.

  • Curated network of PMs, engineers, entrepreneurs
  • Mentor assignment to teams based on project domain
  • Ideation, market validation, and pitch coaching sessions
🏆

Internal Hackathons & Ideathons

Regular campus events, including monthly ideathons and quarterly sprints, to build and sustain a culture of innovation year-round, not just before SIH.

  • Monthly ideathons and quarterly innovation sprints
  • Structured event format, judging, and prizes
  • Builds culture: students participate year-round, not once
GovPrep Platform

India's only gamified government exam prepwhere students earn real monetary rewards.

UPSC, SSC, State PSC, Banking, Railways, and other government examinations, with daily engagement driven by actual monetary wallet credits, not just leaderboard points.

📚

Practice Question Bank

Curated and AI-generated questions aligned with current exam patterns for all major government exams, updated continuously as patterns change.

  • All major exams: UPSC, SSC, State PSC, Banking, Railways
  • AI-generated + curated questions, continuously updated
  • Topic-tagged, difficulty-graded, year-wise filters
🏅

Full-Length Mock Tests

Simulated exams with real exam-like interface, countdown timer, and negative marking where applicable. Students experience the actual exam environment before the actual exam.

  • Real exam interface with countdown and negative marking
  • Performance analytics: topic-wise strength-weakness
  • Percentile comparison against cohort after each mock
💰

Gamification & Real Rewards

Students earn points for every question attempted, every mock completed, and every improvement milestone, converting directly to monetary wallet credits.

  • Points convert to monetary wallet credits
  • Sustained daily engagement, not one-time motivation
  • University positioned as a genuine career support institution
📰

Daily Current Affairs

AI-curated news summaries formatted specifically for exam relevance, saving students the time of reading full newspapers.

  • AI-curated, exam-relevant news summaries daily
  • Formatted for UPSC, SSC, Banking exam patterns
  • Time-efficient: 10-minute daily current affairs prep
Startup Incubation

A real startup ecosystem,not just a room with a name board.

Comprehensive support for university incubation centres, helping institutions build genuine startup infrastructure and improve NAAC Research & Innovation criteria scores.

⚖️

Startup Registrations & Compliance

Legal structuring guidance for student startups including company registration, co-founder agreements, and basic compliance orientation.

  • Company registration and co-founder agreements
  • Basic compliance orientation for new ventures
  • Tracks startup count for NAAC R&I criteria
🤝

Mentorship Network Access

Curated access to industry experts, angel investors, and serial entrepreneurs for mentoring sessions, pitch practice, and introductions.

  • Industry experts, angel investors, serial entrepreneurs
  • Structured mentoring sessions for promising startups
  • Pitch practice with real investor feedback
📜

IP Filing Support

Guidance on patent filing, technology commercialisation, and licensing, critical for NAAC Research & Innovation criteria.

  • Patent filing guidance for student inventions
  • Technology commercialisation and licensing pathways
  • NAAC R&I criteria documentation support
🎤

Demo Day & Pitch Events

Organised and facilitated pitch events with invited investors and industry guests, creating real visibility for student ventures.

  • Facilitated pitch events with investors and industry
  • Media coverage and visibility for university brand
  • Positions university as a genuine innovation hub
Q1 2025 Workshop Numbers

Real workshops. Real participants.

0+
Workshop participants in Q1 2025
At ITM University, Gwalior
0+
B.Tech students, DSA/RAG workshop
Technical upskilling in one session
0+
MBA students, Agentic AI workshop
Agentic AI for Business application
15-25 LPA
Placement improvement target
For universities with hackathon culture
Ready to build the culture?

Events and workshops that put your university on the map.

Talk to our events team about the right programme mix for your university's stage and student profile.