The championship is held in two stages:
Prelims:
- Examination date: 16th July 2017
- Examination duration: 2.5 hours
- Sections: Maths, Puzzles, Code crunchers etc.
- The 2 team students are given a common question paper and answer sheet and they can discuss it amongst themselves and attempt the paper together
- These questions are designed in a way to check the problem-solving abilities of the students. This also involves the development of proper teamwork amongst the students thus leading to a wholesome development of students
Mains:
- Examination venue: IIT Guwahati during Techniche 2017
- It is an event-based competition. It is conducted during 'Techniche', the Techno-Management Festival of IIT Guwahati, held during the first week of September
- The selected teams of the same squad compete against each other in various events
- Each group should confront 3 occasions from which beat 5 groups from every squad will be chosen for the last confrontation
- The occasions, similar to prelims, don't require any essential information and students will be instructed any additional learning they require. The occasions differ each year and before, there have been occasions like Robotics, Aircrash Investigation, Water Rocket and substantially more
- In addition to these, students can attend the workshops and fun events to spend the night. Other than events, the students can witness the competitions of Techniche, attend the Lecture Series of famous personalities, watch Nite performances
Rewards:
- Other than the top 100 students which are selected for mains in each squad (will be given Gold Certificates)
- The next 400 students in both the squads are awarded Silver Certificates from Techniche, IIT Guwahati
- Also there, are various other prizes to be won which will be disclosed later
- Everyone participating in Technothlon 2017 will receive e-Certificate of Participation