Why Partner With SANDBOX?

  • Region’s biggest interdisciplinary Design Jam!
  • Platform to collaborate, innovate and create solutions for a better tomorrow.
  • Promoting collaborative learning, and out-of-the-box thinking in young minds, especially students from various disciplines to work together on designing solutions.
  • Encouraging students to solve the current design problems that the industry is facing and thus inculcating a culture of product innovation and a mindset of problem-solving.

Regions Biggest Platform

  • Innovation

    Harnessing creativity and expertise of students, academicians and visionaries.

  • Peer Learning

    Sparking interdisciplinary research, fuelling imagination.

  • Creating Futuristic Mindset

    Building funnel for “Innovation For A Better Tomorrow”.

  • Fostering Collaboration

    Interdisciplinary approach for improving quality of life.

  • Empowering

    Enabling possibilities and enhancing opportunities for citizens to deliver innovative and sustainable solutions.

  • Corporate Connect

    Building a connection between academia and industry.

Spend the most creative 48 hours of this year!

Registration Process

Registration starts on 5th March & closes on 9th March. Scan the code or register on this website for participation.

Date And Time

Final event will take place on 1st and 2nd April 2025.

Team Allocation

Teams will be formed on 10th March.

Awards

Award Ceremony will take place after the final presentation to the jury members.

Partnership Benefits of Supporting the Design Box

A partnership with Chitkara University would allow to introduce and position yourself as a leading innovator, collaborator and patron of the fostering young minds & future leaders.

Outreach
  • Sandbox will be widely attended by curators and directors as well as the student audience of 20,000+.
  • Sandbox can be a starting point/ incubation cell for POV’s for industry relevant case studies.
  • Sandox will become your ideation hub for experimenting & solving pain points.
Promotions & Activities
  • Chitkara University would help in gaining tremendous brand awareness and visibility across the physical fest through focused engaging and tapping young talent.
  • Chitkara University through print and digital platforms including the website, social media and e-newsletters, collateral will offer an opportunity to increase brand awareness to a very exclusive, targeted clientele.

Unboxing Sandbox

Where Young Minds Innovate a Better Tomorrow

Get ready for Sandbox 2025, where you will get an opportunity to work towards creating design
solutions and working prototypes for real life problems given by industry experts.

FAQ

When in doubt,
always ask

Sandbox is an offline event and will take place at Chitkara University, Punjab Campus

To participate in Sandbox, you must be a student in a UG or PG program of any year at Chitkara University.

Registration started on 20th August and is open till 15th September. Fill out the form on the Sandbox website.

No. You do not need to pay for anything.

Post your registration, your groups will be formed by the managing committee and you will be informed via email.

No. You will be provided with the necessary resources for the competition.

Yes. Your design/ solution will be submitted as either a prototype/ mood board/ high fidelity wireframe or a presentation not exceeding 5 slides. More information will be provided on your orientation day

  • The prototype/ presentation/ wireframe which you will present will be viewed by all those present at the event and the participants own the responsibility of protecting their prototype. Participants will also own the responsibility of reviewing the infringement, copyright, duplication and any violation of IP law there-in
  • Participants will not engage in any kind of copyright infringement of ideas which they might find over the internet while participating. Participants will refrain from any kind of plagiarism and will bring forward their own authentic ideas

Independent jury will weigh your design/ solution against the following criteria-

  • Innovation
  • Desirability
  • Real world relevance
  • Feasibility
  • Business viability
  • Impact

Please keep the following elements in mind-

  • Cross collaboration
  • Business strategy implementation
  • Active participation by each participant in a group
  • Design elements
  • Social elements
  • Accessibility

For any concerns/ queries kindly write to shivani.saini@chitkara.edu.in / rabinder.johar@chitkara.edu.in

Yes. All team members need to be present in person throughout the competition. Remote participation is not advised.

You will receive more information on your Orientation Day for the event. You will be notified of the day well in advance.

All team/s submissions must comply with the rules set by the organizing committee. You will be notified of these rules shortly and during your orientation.

Disqualification is at the sole discretion of the committee and the jury if the submission does not comply with the rules and or if following incidents occur -

  • Not adhering to the terms and the conditions laid out by the committee and jury
  • Participating or in any way initiating harm, mental or physical to any participant, organizer, jury or any person
  • Damaging property of any participant or at the campus
  • Property may include laptop, desktop, furniture or any resource which is being used or is in the vicinity of the event area
  • Depict or refer to any crude, vulgar, obscene, sexually explicit, disparaging, discriminatory, offensive, illegal or otherwise unsuitable language activity or any content
  • Contain any content that violates any law or any third party’s rights (including privacy and intellectual property rights)

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