Google Powered Startup Weekend, a global grassroots movement of active and empowered entrepreneurs who are learning the basics of founding start-ups and launching successful ventures. One such licensed event was co-sponsored by CEDI and organized at NIT Trichy from 12 – 14 September 2014 with more than 100 participants, where the participants were required to pitch their raw ideas which could be in any vertical/theme like Technology, Education, Health, Disability, Environment, etc. and work on building a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) thus propelling them to take their ideas to the next stage.