How to Apply for TECHNOVA Technical Innovation Challenge — ₹3,000 Prize Pool for Students

Teams are judged at the event itself, which is held on 22 July 2026 and consists of two scored rounds.

• Round 1 — Tech Rapid Fire (20 minutes): Participants face a rapid-fire set of technical questions spanning AI, Machine Learning, Cyber Security, Programming, Data Science, Cloud Computing, Networking and general technology trends. The highest-scoring teams move forward.
• Round 2 — AI Image Generation Challenge (30 minutes): Teams that qualify are given a surprise theme and must create a compelling original image with the AI image-generation tools the organisers approve. Each team then briefly explains its prompt, its creative approach and how the result connects to the theme.

Round 1 acts as the qualifying filter, and only teams that clear it go on to compete in Round 2.