First-Year IEM Students Build 300+ Apps
New Delhi [India], August 1: In an impressive start to their college journey, first-year engineering students of the IEM-UEM Group have developed more than 300 Generative AI-based applications in just one month.
The event—Spark & Rock-2025—was designed as a GenAI app development hackathon and is being hailed as the first large-scale initiative of its kind in eastern India. What made it stand out was not just the number of apps built, but the fact that all participants were students fresh out of school, now exploring AI tools with cloud-based, no-code platforms.
Out of hundreds of entries, 40 teams made it to the finals. From these, three teams were awarded for creating apps that showed strong real-world value, ease of use, and potential market appeal.
The initiative was jointly organis...