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Teenovators: Bangalore school wins first prize

by IBNS 02 Feb 2016, 05:40 am

Manipal, Feb 2 (IBNS): Air Force School Hebbal, Bangalore won the Teenovator of the year first prize at the national-level competition for innovation by students at Manipal University here on Saturday.

It grabbed a prize money of Rs 5 lakhs.

Earlier, they had clinched the top prize in 2013. Garden High International School, Kolkata were second and bagged a prize money of Rs 3 lakhs.

Bharatiya Jain Sanghatan  Junior College, Pune finished third and earned a prize money of Rs 1 lakh. Consolations prizes of Rs 50,000 each went to St Columba's school, Delhi and Iqbalia International School, Hyderabad.

Teenovators is a national-level platform provided by Manipal University, with support from INK, to the young minds in schools across the country to showcase their creative and innovative skills.

Eight of the best teams are brought to Manipal University for the final round following a screening process spread over few months.

This year 400 schools participated and eight were selected for the grand finale held at the Innovation Center in Manipal Institute of Technology.

The finalists exhibited their projects at the Innovation Centre in Manipal Institute of Technology.

The five judges and three mentors grilled the participants about their projects, which according to them were of a very high standard.

The judges said that it is rare to see innovations of such high standard being presented.

They were happy that Manipal University was providing the platform for the youngsters to innovate and exhibit their skills.

“Teenovators is a signature event of Manipal University, with the singular purpose of fostering, encouraging and recognizing research and innovation in much younger student bodies. The wealth of these innovations is what will drive India’s knowledge economy. We at Manipal University hope to contribute to this growth through an innovative learning environment in our campus & initiatives like Teenovators across the nation,” said Vinod Bhat, Vice Chancellor, Manipal University.

The Bangalore school had won the first prize in 2013 for their project on how to maximize life of a mobile battery while in use.

Their project this year called “Cloneator”clones the action of his master and works on the principle of one robot cloning another control robot.

Garden High International School, Kolkata’s project called ‘Piezoelectric power generation in trains’ displayed how to generate sufficient power to light up the train compartments.

The piezoelectric materials are fixed in the shock absorbers and coupling dampers of a train and converting the electric signals thus produced by running trains.

The second runner-up, Bharatiya Jain Sanghatana Jr College, Pune have studied plant growth using electromagnetic waves. 

The students have conducted a study on this subject and have come out with certain recommendations of controlling crop growth with electromagnetism.

The teams winning consolation prizes were St Columba's school, Delhi for their project had ‘Microcontrolled Farming Solution’ and Iqbalia International School, Hyderabad project was ‘Addressing iron deficiency among women’.

Kiran Datar, Former Advisor Government of India, National Knowledge Commission, Maulishree Agrahari, CEO, ICT Skills Development Society, Govt. of Karnataka and Anand Gandhi, Film Maker and Screen Writer were present at the prize distribution function.