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Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam IGNITE 2015 Award |
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The Hon’ble President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee gave away the Dr APJ Abdul Kalam IGNITE 2015 Award on November 30, 2015 at IIM-Ahmedabad. The competition is organised by National Innovation Foundation- India every year to encourage technological ideas and innovations by children up to class 12 or those out of school up to the age of 17 years. Shri Mukherjee in his speech congratulated the winners and applauded their sense of responsibility towards the weaker sections of society like the elderly and differently abled. He said that, ÒInnovation is the key to economic development and reflects the maturity of a nation and society to respond to the emerging needs and challenges. Innovation is a continuous process and needs to be nurtured at each and every step. Realizing the importance of innovation in the life of a nation and society, Rashtrapati Bhavan has started the tradition of hosting the Festival of InnovationsÉ.to link grassroots innovators with innovative minds at different levels in diverse fieldsÓ. He emphasized that a stronger linkage between industry and academia is necessary to take innovations to the nook and corner of the country, a thought he tried to propagate in his visits to each of the 114 central institutions. He encouraged the students to form innovation clubs in their institutions to search, spread, celebrate innovations and sense the unmet needs.
Also present on the occasion was Shri OP Kohli, the Governor of Gujarat and Smt Anandi Ben Patel, the Chief Minister of Gujarat and many other dignitaries. Encouraging the young innovators, Smt Patel announced that state government will take up two of the innovations for dissemination in the state through their development programmes. One of the innovations is a foldable cart that was developed in a co-creation camp organised by SRISTI with the help of UNICEF Innovation Centre. Children from privileged and underprivileged sections visited the most neglected parts of the city to learn about the problems of the
deprived sections of the society and provide ideas to mitigate. Technology students then worked on some of their ideas to develop them into workable prototypes.
Dr RA Mashelkar, FRS, Chairperson NIF, reminisced about the association Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam had with the IGNITE competition since in 2008. He mentioned, ÒNIF had been blessed to have Dr Kalam’s continued guidance and advice since 2002 when as the President of the country, he honored grassroots innovators in NIF’s Second National Awards.Ó Remembering his enthusiasm every time he interacted with the IGNITE winners and inspired them,he said that ÒNIF renamed IGNITE Awards as Dr APJ Abdul Kalam IGNITE Awards so that children
can continue to draw inspiration from him.Ó
Professor Ashutosh Sharma, Secretary Dst added, 'The INSPIRE Program of DST together with NIF is now working on a country-wide scale up of scouting of innovations from the top students selected from 5 lakh schools and several thousand ITIs. This is a turning point in furthering our inclusive innovation system that addresses the needs of our nation.'
This year, a total 31 ideas by 40 students of 27 districts from 18 states were awarded for their ideas/innovations (List of award winners annexed). Overall, 28,106 submissions of students from 425 districts of all the states & union territories of the country were received during the IGNITE 15 competition, which ran from September 1, 2014 to September 10, 2015.
A solar thresher to end harvesting woes
Dipankar Das, class 12, Government Senior Secondary School, Diglipur, Andaman & Nicobar Islands
Dipankar’s family did could not afford a threshing machine , nor could they afford to pay for the electricity bill to run a rented oneor channel electricity to the fields for a rented one. This inspired him to create a solar thresher for efficiently threshing pulses and grains such as green gram, black gram, pigeon pea and horse gram, without using electricity or fossil fuels.
In 2013, he had developed a low cost paddy dryer, which was selected for a state level exhibition. ÒI want to make more farming equipment for my family to make their life easier. We must learn how to channelise our knowledge to real life ( application,Ó says the 18-year-old, who helps his parents in the farm. He or prefers making different science technological models when not he is not studying. He wants to become a mechanical engineer and design low cost machines.
Fruits - natural or poisoned?
Neha, class 12, Government Model Senior Secondary School, PAP campus, Jalandhar, Punjab
During a chemistry class, Neha was using pH strips (or litmus paper) to distinguish between acids and bases. It then struck her that she could do the same experiment with fruits to determine whether they are naturally or artificially ripened. ÒThis test can be done when you buy fruits from the market. Initially, I did not share my idea with anyone but when my teachers came to know, they encouraged me. I want to develop this idea further,Ó says Neha, who calls chemical experiments in her school laboratory as her hobby and loves listening to music in her free time.
Neha looks up to her chemistry teacher as her role model and wants to grow up to be a chemical engineer. ÒA lot of students aspire to work abroad when they grow up but I will work in my country. I hope my experiments will make a difference to Indians,Ó says Neha, whose father is an electrician and mother is a homemaker. She has two younger brothers.
A colour-coded thermometer
Janmejay Singh Rathore, class 12, CMR National PU College, Bangalore, Karnataka
Janmejay has suggested a colour-coded thermometer, which not only gives out the temperature—red for emergency, orange for intermediate temperature and green for normal — but also gives out precautionary measures and even dials an ambulance in case of an emergency! The thermometer also has a speaker that can read out the temperature through a voice message for those who are partially or completely visually challenged.
'This is not limited to only humans but can also be used for dairy and poultry animals. I am also working on connecting the thermometer from the nerves under the tongue to the cardiac nerves to know about the heart condition,' says Janmejay.
When he grows up, Janmejay wants to become a scientist as well as and an entrepreneur. He is the captain of the basketball team in school and plays tennis in his free time. He loves physics and dreams of affordable healthcare for all Indians.
Jaspreet Kaur, class 10, Police DAV Public School, Jalandhar, Punjab
Jaspreet’s father is an Assistant Sub-Inspector in Punjab Police and her mother is a homemaker. She has four sisters—one set of elder twins in class 12 and another set of younger twins studying in class 4. Jaspreet scores high in all subjects. Her hobbies include painting, singing and listening to patriotic songs.
She is passionate about space settlement and had won the second prize in NASA’s annual contest for space settlement designs, last year. Quoting Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, she says, ÒDon’t take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck.
A few months ago, Jaspreet’s father was suffering from typhoid and used to get fever, frequently. When Jaspreet tried to measure his temperature, she could not determine the exact temperature through a conventional thermometer. This led the young girl to develop the idea of a thermometer with three lights—red for high temperature, blue for low temperature and green for normal temperature.
Alert system for injured animals
Diva Sharma, class 12, GD Goenka Public School, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi
Diva has developed an application, which records the respiratory rate, temperature, pulse rate, heart beat rate of animals, through sensors attached to their bodies, making it easier for doctors to detect an emergency.
The system is an economic way to alert doctors about emergencies, as soon as an animal is brought into a hospital. The system includes a sensor— attached to the bodies of the animals — that will monitor the heartbeat, check pulse rate and also help in checking blood loss. The sensor is connected to an app that can be downloaded by the vets on their smartphones.
ÒMy device seeks to remove any callousness and negligence in monitoring sick animals and speed up the pace of medical aid provided to them. I wanted to use my knowledge to create something useful. Even pet owners who leave their pets alone at home all day can use this app,Ó says Diva.
Diva’s mother works as a preschool teacher at the American Embassy in Delhi while her father has a business in the real estate industry. She has a sister, who studies in class VIII.
Foot-operated door opening mechanism
Jayprakash B Rathava, class 12, Shree Gram Shala Grambharti, Gandhinagar, Gujarat
Tanmay Takale, class 12, Shri Mhalsakant Vidyalya, Pune, Maharashtra
Two students have individually suggested a mechanism through which a door can be opened by activating a sensor using a leg. While this mechanism is most useful in public toilets, it can also be used elsewhere and may also be useful for the physically challenged or someone carrying load in both hands.
Jayprakash likes to play kabbaddi and loves to travel. He makes sure never to miss school picnics and tours.
Jayprakash was travelling from his hometown in Bamroli village to Gandhinagar in a bus when he saw a man with no arms, trying to board the bus. However, he could not open the door of the bus in time and missed the bus. This incident left a huge impression on Jayprakash’s mind. Tanmay and his friends had gone for a movie and while using the washroom, they saw that there were many people who left the washroom without washing their hands. These incidents made the students to develop the idea of a hands-free door mechanism.
Tanmay’s hobbies include playing football, sketching and reading books. ÒI believe that one should dream big and work hard. Hard work pays off,Ó says Tanmay, who used to spend sleepless nights working on his innovations.
Tanmay’s hobbies include playing football, sketching and reading books. ÒI believe that one should dream big and work hard. Hard work pays off,Ó says Tanmay, who used to spend sleepless nights working on his innovations.
A punching machine with hole-reinforcement mechanism
Apart from the foot operated door, Tanmay also gave an idea of a punching machine with a hole reinforcement mechanism so that the punched holes last longer and do not tear off from inside. The machine not only punches holes in the paper but also attaches a ring-like sticker on the hole to keep the paper from tearing.
When he was in class 10, Tanmay had to file a lot of study materials before exams. He realized that it took a long time to punch the papers and most of the papers tore as soon as he filed them. Tanmay has proposed a punching machine with a hole reinforcement mechanism so that the punched holes last longer and do not tear off from inside. The machine not only punches holes in the paper but also attaches a ring-like sticker on the hole to keep the paper from tearing.
Bionic Body Suit
Ayush Gupta, class 12, Delhi Public School Haridwar, Uttarakhand
Arnov Sharma, class 12, Delhi Public School, Haridwar, Uttarakhand
Ayush has set his eyes on robotics. ÒI want to make different types of robots to make human life easier,Ó says Ayush, who had earlier developed a robot soldier, out of waste material, to be used in wars to prevent bloodshed. Ayush’s father works with a PSU while his mother is a homemaker. His elder brother is pursuing mechanical engineering and is very supportive of Ayush’s innovations.
Arnov wants to become a mechanical engineer and an inventor. He likes to make cartoons and paint in his free time. He also writes songs and loves gadgets. His father owns a workshop of motor repair workshop while his mother is a homemaker. He has a younger brother.
Ayush likes to watch animated movies and his favourite superhero, like his friend Ayush, is Iron Man.
Once, while watching a Hollywood movie, Iron Man, the students came up with the idea of developing an Iron Man-like robotic suit, which would help differently abled people lead lives like normally and become independent.
The duo has designed a mechanical body suit that can provide support to a physically challenged person. It can also aid orthopaedic patients. The suit supplements the movement of the upper skeleton system.
The students used recycled materials, motor parts and other scrap to make the prototype.
ÒIn our innovation, the upper and lower arm is connected with a lever, which is connected to a pulley that rotates the arm. It is a very simple mechanism but hopefully, will be useful to people,Ó says Arnov, who developed the cost-effective model with his classmate Ayush during their vacation.
Low cost grass and leaf cutting machine
Sapir Debbarma, class 12, Bharat Sardar H. S. School, Champahour, Tripura
Klishan Debbarma, class 12, Bharat Sardar H. S. School, Champahour, Tripura
ÒI keep on thinking about how innovations can make people’s lives easier,Ó says Sapir, whose mother is a daily wage labourer and father is a farmer. He has a brother who is studying.
ÒWe do not have many facilities or laboratories in our village to carry out experiments. But I want to become a scientist when I grow up and create more innovations in future,Ó says Klishan, who has two sisters.
When Klishan was in class XII, he was cutting grass with a friend when he thought of the idea of a hand-held grass cutting device.
Sapir and Klishan have proposed a hand-held cutting machine for grass and leaves. This machine can be carried easily and used anywhere.
Smart walking stick
Siddhant Khanna, class 11, Sanskriti School, New Delhi
When he is not studying, Siddhant keeps himself occupied with activities like playing the piano, taking Taekwondo classes, photography, building robots and other science projects. He has developed a walking stick with many features like counting of steps, fall detector, emergency alarm, automatic torch and even medicine reminder and locator. Siddhant got this idea when his 76-year-old maternal grandfather mentioned how it was difficult for him to walk around the house without support.
Now, you can carry your own door latch while travelling!
P.S. Senthur Balaji, class 12, Maharishi International Residential School, Erode, Tamil Nadu
At school, subjects that come with a practical application, instead of formulae, appeal to Senthur. He plays football and badminton and reads a lot on concepts of technology.
Senthur has come up with the idea of a portable latch, which can be carried by people travelling frequently.
ÒOnce when I had to use the toilet at the railway station, I was surprised that there was no latch on the door. I somehow relieved myself but the whole experience was embarrassing. When I came out, I wondered about the plight of women travellers. This made me think of a portable latch,Ó says Senthur, who is the only child of his parents.
His father is a businessman and his mother is a homemaker. The family has a pet dog, which Senthur misses a lot as he stays in a hostel.
Soundproof Hammer
Prithwish Dutta, class 12, Don Bosco School, Liluah, Howrah, West Bengal
Prithwish takes deep interest in economics, science and technology. His hobbies include playing games like cricket and football, for which he has won many prizes. His mother is a homemaker while his elder sister is pursuing media science.
Once his house was being renovated and the resulting noise from the hammer was annoying for Prithwish. He came up with the idea of a soundproof hammer, through which the noise level of a hammer can be reduced to its minimum. The sound proof hammer would be covered with a foam-like substance, which would absorb the impact when struck against any object.
Water filter/purifier at source
Soring Lepcha, class 6, St Joseph School, Pentok, North Sikkim
Subash Prodhan, class 6, Lingzya Junior High School North Sikkim, Sikkim
Soring aspires to become a police officer when he grows up. His parents run a grocery store and he has a younger brother. His favourite subject is history and in his free time, Soring likes to play football.
ÒI want to become a pilot when I grow up,Ó says Subhash, who lives with his grandparents and a younger sister. His mother is a beautician. ÒWhen I am not studying, I like to play football and also help my grandparents and my mother in housework,Ó says Subhash.
Both the children have given the idea of filter/purifier at the source of water so that everyone has access to clean water without having to make an investment in purchasing a filter/purifier for each household.
Soring’s idea is to have a centralised purification system at the point of distribution, like water tank and Subash’s idea is to have water purifiers attached to public taps for free access to safe drinking water.
Watch with medicine delivery system
Navjot Kaur, class 12, Senior Secondary Model School, SAS Nagar, Chandigarh, Punjab
Vaishnavi Patra, class 9, Odisha Demonstrated Multipurpose Public School, Khorda, Odisha
The daughter of a serviceman, Navjot
has a younger brother and her mother is a homemaker. ÒI am fascinated by chemistry
and aspire to become a research analyst,Ó says Navjot.
Vaishnavi lives with her father, an assistant general manager at a company, her mother, who is an entrepreneur and a younger sister. She enjoys performing contemporary dance and likes to play basketball. ÒI want to become a psychiatrist and help teenagers and adolescents facing a difficult time,Ó says Vaishnavi.
Navjot and Vaishnavi have individually suggested the idea of a watch, which can store and timely deliver the appropriate dose of medicine to the person. Navjot came up with the idea after seeing her friend, an asthma patient, forget her inhaler and suffer an attack.
For Vaishnavi Patra, it was her own experience of forgetting to take medicines whenever she was unwell, which inspired her to innovate. She has suggested a computerised wristwatch, which will alert the user through beeps when it is time to take the medication and also when the slots need to be refilled.
Lac extraction machine
Sourav Dey, class 10, Government High School Barajamda, Jharkhand
Sourav has created a machine that peels lac from branches of trees and plants without damaging breaking them. As a result, the amount of impurities is also lesser in the extracted lac and it takes lesser effort to clean it. The machine is attached with a rotator and works on the principle of a sugar cane juice extracting machine.
The idea occurred to Sourav when his father asked him to remove some unwanted grass and plants surrounding their house. While removing the plants, Sourav saw that there was lac (the resinous secretion of lac insects). When he tried removing it by hand, he realised that the lac was running till the roots of the plants. He then thought of a machine that could easily remove lac from plants and trees but did not have a reference.
Pay as you weigh
Rishab Mallick, class 10, Kendriya Vidyalaya Fort William, Kolkata, West Bengal
With this system, one needs to pay only as much as one weighs. The benefit of this system is that people will carry less luggage while travelling.
ÒAt present, I have kept this idea limited to private air-conditioned buses but it can be applied to public buses and other modes of commuting, as well,Ó says Rishab. His father is a government employee while his mother is a homemaker.
Loom for physically challenged
R. Pavithra, class 10, SRC Memorial Matriculation, Erode, Tamil Nadu
R. Elakkiya, class 8, SRC Memorial Matriculation, Erode, Tamil Nadu
The two sisters have come up with a loom for lower limb physically challenged. In their loom, they have replaced the pedal operated system with a motor and a gearbox attached to a pulley mechanism.
Pavithra’s favourite subjects are Maths and Science. She wants to become an eye specialist while her sister wants to be a scientist. Both the girls idolize Dr APJ Abdul Kalam.
Elakkiya is a chess player and a dancer. ÒOur mother has supported and encouraged us a lot in developing innovations,Ó says Elakkiya. Both the sisters want to fulfill their father’s dream of setting up a science and innovation centre in their district to encourage more innovators.
Machine to pluck Tendu leaves
Bharat, class 11, Government Higher Secondary School, Bacheli Dantewada, Chhattisgarh
Bharat’s idea is to develop a Tendu leaf plucking machine, which can cut the leaves and collect them in a container. He also suggests a sorter, which can separate leaves according to their sizes.
Bharat belongs to a farming family and has three brothers and a sister. Since childhood, Bharat has been watching the locals pluck and store Tendu leaves, which have many anti-microbial properties. While the work was laborious, it did not fetch enough money.
A device to collect Mahua flower from ground
Lipsa Pradhan, class 10, Govt. High School, Kamgaon, Odisha
Lipsa lives in a remote village of western Odisha with her parents, a brother and a sister. There are many Mahua (Madhuca longifolia (J.Konig) (J.F Macbr)) trees in her village and she used to watch her mother and other women in the village pick up fallen Mahua flowers on the ground under the trees. Mahua flowers have many medicinal properties and are also used to make pickles, jams, ice creams and desserts.
This made her think of a device that could eliminate the time-consuming and tiring process.
Pass code based locking system in gas stove
Nim Lhamu Lepcha, class 10, Gor Secondary School, North Sikkim, Sikkim
Six years ago, Nim’s house was burned down due to an accident involving cooking gas. The family shifted to another house but she kept thinking about the accident and the dangers of children playing with stove knobs. Nim’s idea is of a manual or digital pass code system to switch gas stoves on, thus preventing mishaps involving children.
Her father is a farmer and mother is a nursery teacher. Other members of her family are her grandmother, one brother and three sisters.
Spectacle microscope
Hadasha Rongmei, class 10, Lorna’s School, Dimapur, Nagaland
Hadasha has given an idea about a mini microscope that can be worn like a spectacle, which makes it light and portable. She watches a lot of science fiction movies, which motivated her to work on her idea.
Hadasha is the youngest among four daughters in her family. Her father is in the Indian Army. ÒMy mother is my biggest inspiration,Ó says Hadasha, who belongs to the Rongmei tribe in the state of Nagaland, which is renowned for its multicultural, multilingual and equally diversified unique landscape.
Pebble indicating system for cooking vessel
Mohammad Tawseef Thokar, class 10, Govt. Higher Secondary School, Kulgam, Jammu and Kashmir
Tawseef has suggested a vessel with sensors, which can indicate the presence of pebbles or similar impurities in rice or other food grains being cooked.
ÒThis rice cooker-like vessel can be especially helpful for students who stay away from home and have to do their own cooking. The sensors will alert if there are pebbles or insects in the food, as soon as they are heated so that they can be washed immediately,Ó says Tawseef, whose idea was inspired when he saw his mother complain about impurities in cooked rice.
Tawseef had to undergo 15 surgeries since an accident that badly injured his leg in 2011. This 16-year-old has not been able to attend school regularly because of his surgeries and had to skip the academic session this year because of one last surgery. ÒI miss school but my classmates come over to cheer me up,Ó says Tawseef, whose father does agriculture work while his mother is a homemaker. He has two brothers, one elder and one younger to him.
Gas lighter with gas leak alarm
Nilesh Raj, class 9, DAV Inter High School, Patna, Bihar
Nilesh’s idea is of a gas lighter, which can sense and indicate gas leakage before it is lighted, thereby preventing accidents. According to the idea, if there is a gas leakage, the lighter would not switch on and give out a siren, instead.
ÒThe idea occurred when I got news of a neighbour being badly burnt due to cooking gas leakage,Ó says Nilesh, who wants to be a mechanical engineer and create useful, innovative products.
Innovative dustbin
Prem Ranjan Singh, class 9, Divya Jyoti English Higher Secondary School, Daman, Daman & Diu
Ankush Pal, class 9, Divya Jyoti English Higher Secondary School, Daman, Daman & Diu
Shivani Singh, class 9, Divya Jyoti English Higher Secondary School, Daman, Daman & Diu
Prem has the dream of taking India to newer heights. ÒMy interest is to read books, play cricket and badminton and practice karate. I also like to watch wrestling on television,Ó he says. Prem’s father works with a plastic manufacturing company while his mother is a homemaker. He has a younger sister.
In his free time, Ankush likes to solve quizzes in Maths and Physics. He also likes to read books and play cricket, volleyball and other outdoor games. ÒI want to become a doctor because I want to help the poor with free medicine and treatment,Ó says Ankush. His, whose father works in a steel company. His mother does sewing work at a company and he has an elder brother.
ÒI want to become a teacher so that I can help the future generation understand and differentiate the right from the wrong. I will also work at getting more respect for women,Ó says Shivani, who likes to learn new things like riding a bike or playing chess. Her father is a welding technician and mother is a homemaker. She has a younger brother.
While walking on the streets, Shivani used to see overflowing dustbins, with waste scattered all around them. She thought of creating a dustbin with separate, yet attached slots, for different types of waste. She pitched this idea to her friends, Prem and Ankush, who then worked together on the idea of a dustbin with separate slots for bio-degradable and non bio-degradable waste with a message sending facility to the municipality once dustbin is filled up to a preset level.
Seed container that indicates growth of germs
Dipti Manjari Dakua, class 10, Bahadjhole Girls, High School, Nayagarh, Odisha
To know if the stored grains are affected by pests, Dipti has developd a seed indicator, which detects the growth of germs in the stored grains.
Dipti’s father is physically challenged and runs a small hotel in their village. Her mother is a homemaker and Dipti has an elder brother, who is studying. ÒI want to be a banker when I grow up so that I can help my family with my income,Ó says Dipti. She has a habit of keeping newspaper cuttings on new machines and innovations. When Dipti showed her working model to her parents, they were very proud.
An umbrella you can share
Tarna Joy, class 2, Puran Dalapati School, Dalapatipara, Dhalai district, Tripura
Most students who share the conventional umbrella, while walking to school, get fully drenched by the time they reach school.
Eleven-year-old Tarna has suggested a large umbrella, which could be held by two children from two sides under which other children can stand and go to school together without getting drenched.
Tarna likes to read, draw, play football and other local games in his free time. His father is a farmer and mother is a homemaker. Tarna has three sisters and four brothers.
Park benches that can flip
Simran Chadha, class 8, BCM Arya Model Senior School Ludhiana, Punjab
Simran’s idea is to have reversible benches, which can be flipped using a handle so that the other side comes up.
ÒOne day, when I was at the park, I saw that all the benches were wet because of rain. There was no place to sit. This made me think that if we had the option to rotate benches, we could overcome this problem,Ó says Simran.
She lives in Ludhiana with her two siblings, mother, who is a homemaker and father who runs a business. Her hobbies include playing badminton, singing and painting. ÒI want to become a scientist as I have a deep interest in science and technology,Ó says Simran.
Solar seeder
Subash Chandra Bose, class 8, St. Sebasthiyar Matriculation School, Pudukkottai, Tamil Nadu
Subash has developed a solar powered seed drill, which can work for different sizes of seeds at variable depth and space between two seeds while planting.
Born into a farming family, Subash understands the challenges faced by farmers.
ÒI want to become a scientist in the field of nature and agriculture and preserve organic farming. I would like everyone to understand the importance of nature and agriculture,Ó says Subash, who likes farming and reading about agriculture. He also writes poems and takes a keen interest in spreading social awareness about nature.
His inspiration for organic farming is Dr Sultan Ahmed— a vermi-compost specialist and Dr APJ Abdul Kalam.
Alerting system for bus drivers
Pradyumna Pal, class 9, Saraswati Shishu Vidya Mandir, Bhubaneswar, Odisha
Rahul Kumar, class 9, Rajkiya Balak Uchh Madhyamik Vidyalaya, Patna, Bihar
Pradyumna likes to play football and keeps himself updated with daily news through newspapers. He is a vegetarian and is particularly fond of dairy products. He aspires to become a doctor when he grows up. His father is a driver by profession.
Fascinated by how machines work, Rahul aspires to become a mechanical engineer when he grows up. His father is a vegetable vendor.
Pradyumna and Rahul have independently conceived the idea of an alerting system for bus drivers which would enable them to know if any passenger has put his hand or head outside the window and the ignition would not start until the hand/head is withdrawn.
Drawbridge door for trains
Ram Akash, standard 11, Excel Central School, Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu & Nimisha Katyayan, standard 12, DAV Kapil Dev Public School, Ranchi, Jharkhand
During a train journey, Ram Akash observed the difficulty people face while boarding trains. He also observed that some passengers sit or stand on the steps of trains which is dangerous. ÒThis made me think of a drawbridge door that opened only at the stations, thus making it safer,Ó says Ram.
Last year, Nimisha was travelling by train with her grandmother who had a lot of difficulty in boarding the train. This situation inspired her to think of a drawbridge door which would open like a ramp on stations.
Printed paper reclaiming machine
Aravind Gopalakrishnan, standard 12, Smt. Narbada Devi J. Agarwal Vivekananda Vidyalaya Jr College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
One day, Aravind was trying to take printouts from the machine in his computer lab. But, the heating coil of the machine was not functional because of which the printed toner particles did not stick to the paper. The paper which came out was blank and was reusable. This led to the idea of a machine which could erase prints from paper and make them reusable.
Handrest for fractured hand
Adi Kumar, standard 5, Deens Academy, Bengaluru, Karnataka
The idea was born when Adi had to wear a cast and a sling to support his fractured arm.
ÒWearing the sling for about 16 hours every day, along with all the weight of the cast on my left shoulder, caused a lot of pain. So,
I thought of putting an appendage around the waist to make it a little comfortable and painless,Ó says the 10-year-old.
Adi wants to become a scientist. He idolises Dr Kalam and Albert Einstein. |
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