Goa, June 13 -- KARSTEN MIRANDA

A team of students from Padre Conceicao College of Engineer ing (PCCE) has developed an artificial intelligence platform that allows us ers to interact with AI in Devanagari Konkani through voice and text - a project that has now won first place in the Software Category at Technix 2026, a national-level intercollegiate project competition held at Don Bo sco College of Engineering, Fatorda. The award-winning project, Konka ni Companion, was developed by Adrian Josephy Fernandes, Wendel Domnic Fernandes, Braise John Fer nandes and Saihaan Shaik Muzawar of the college's Electronics and Com puter Engineering Department un der the guidance of faculty members Avita A. Lotlikar and Tina Vaz. The project grew out ...