EW Project Challenge is a global contest for Engineers, Makers & hardware developers. 

The Challenge

The contest challenges the community to develop technological solutions to solve the problems and make our tomorrow better.

The challenge is to build projects that bring improvement, and efficiency, and create an impact by solving problems.

Pursue your own idea and design the boldest solution you can envision. 

 You can choose any hardware, boards, sensor, and technology that you want. 

The contest is about celebrating the spirit of problem-solving, hardware designing, and creating impactful designs.

How to participate

It’s simple!

Step 1: Sign Up/Login 

Step 2: Click on “Register as Participant”, Done!

Step 3:  Now Do not forget to submit your project! (Refer: How to create a high-quality Project)

You can submit multiple projects. Each project will be considered as an individual project entry.

Prizes

Prizes worth a total ₹ 500,000/-. 

Judges will select the winners based on criteria (Ref. Rules).

1st Winner

 ₹1,00,000

2nd Winner

₹60,000

3rd Winner

₹40,000

Creative Project Prize

The top 15 projects will get a prize of ₹10,000 each.

Selection of 15 projects will be based on the same criteria.

Early Bird

The first 50 Project submissions will get amazing goodies.

Certificate

Every successful project submission will be eligible for getting a certificate of successful participation. Each team member will receive the certificate via email.

Get exciting Goodies

Judges

Tony Francis

An enterprising leader with a strong track record in Product Management, Business Development, and Startup Mentoring. 20+ Years of Experience. Alumni of Robert Bosch, Intel, Texas Instruments, Toshiba, and Tata Elxsi and has 7 patent applications (in diverse areas covering sensors, IoT, and business model innovations)

Y.C. Wang

Y.C. Wang is DigiKey’s Global Academic Program Director. Y.C. leads DigiKey’s academic team to build business and collaborative opportunities with universities around the world. Prior to DigiKey, Y.C. worked for Microchip and Atmel, managing special programs with start-ups, makers, and academia. Before that, he was a Senior Applications Engineer with Xilinx (now AMD). Always passionate about Programmable Logic, Y.C. still occasionally teaches FPGA design to returning professionals in Silicon Valley.

Jun Zhang 

Hardware system design engineer at a major consumer electronics company and a self-made hardware design hobbyist. An electrical engineer with multiple years of experience designing electrical systems for commercial electronics and electronics for space missions. Being on numerous judge panels for various electronic competitions makes him believe that an open-source hardware design community is more than necessary.