In the current light of the pandemic, BloomBox organized a virtual B-plan competition BINOVATION in August 2020. The Event was announced on 12th August, 2020 on various social media platforms and Dare2Compete website and registrations were started. The second event of BloomBox for this year witnessed a whopping 100+ registrations from around the country. For this event, 5 domains hit hard due to the pandemic caused by the Novel Coronavirus/Covid-19 were released on 15th August, namely Health, Agriculture, Entertainment, Education and Employment. The participating teams consisting of 1 to 4 members each were then sent a minimum of 2 problem statements in every domain through mail communication. The partners of the event were MILD who provided internships worth ?5000 to every winning team member. Our second sponsorship partner was HEADSTART India who offered mentorship to the winning team helping them make their ideas a great success and making it ready for the real world along with special discounts to all participants on their mentorship programs.
The event consisted of 2 rounds where the teams had to send in their solutions in the form of pdfs for a particular problem statement for the first round. The top 10 teams from round 1 were shortlisted by the Binovation Planning Team and the results were announced on the official BloomBox website on 26th August, 2020. The winning teams had to present their ideas in the form of presentations to the above listed judges on 29th August, 2020 on Google Meets platform.