Sri Gayatri Junior College, Bachupally Girls, Hyderabad, was announced as a winner of Teenovators 2014-2015, a nationwide competition from Manipal University that provides young minds a platform to showcase their creative and innovative skills. The event was presided over by Dr. Ramdas Pai, Chancellor, Manipal University. Mr. Srinivas Prasad – CEO of Philips Innovation Campus was the Chief Guest & Mr. Varun Agarwal – young entrepreneur, author & film-maker was the Guest of Honour.
Project on Eco-friendly mechanical pump from Sri Gayatri Junior College, Bachupally Girls, Hyderabad emerged as the winner and received a cash prize of 3 lakhs. While, Saraswathi Vidyalaya High School & Junior College of Science, Thane were the first runner ups for their project on Ultimate Power Car and Poorna Prajna Education Centre, Sadashivnagar bagged the second runner up position for their project on creating Alternate source of Energy. They got cash prizes of Rs. 2 lakh and Rs. 1 lakh respectively. Two teams from V K R Acharya English Medium High School, Kundapur, Udupi and DAV Public School, Rajpura were given the consolation prizes of Rs 50,000 each.
More than two lakh students from over 600 schools across 12 cities in India took part in the five-month-long competition which began on September 2014. From among these, ten teams were selected to showcase their unique innovations in the run-up to the grand finale. These teams were trained and mentored by experts from Dell, GE Global Research, Microsoft, Intel, Nvidia, CSIR and CMR IT.
While expressing the excitement of winning the first prize, Anunitya from Sri Gayatri Jr College, Bachupally, said “Teenovators has been proven to be a milestone in our life. It has given us sense of responsibility towards society and has motivated us to develop that will have a social impact. While we are excited to win Teenovators the buck doesn’t stop here. We will work towards making our project market ready with the help of ideas and guidelines suggested by experts at Manipal University.”
This is the third edition of Teenovators that has been successfully conducted by Manipal University. Apart from the ten finalist teams, around 100 principals from prestigious schools across the country attended the event.
Principals and teachers of various schools from across the country who attended the grand finale applauded the efforts put in by Manipal University to foster innovation at the school level.
Details of the innovations:
First Prize
Name of the project: Eco-friendly mechanical pump
Name of the school: Sri Gayatri Junior College (Bachupally Girls), Hyderabad
Mentor: Bhanu Potta, Microsoft Devices, Microsoft
Student Participants: Nirupama, Shruthipriya, Aishwarya, Anunitya, E. Ramya
About the experiment: This project aims to reduce the use of electricity during irrigation. In India electricity is a mandatory resource for irrigation. Farmers face a huge challenge due to insufficient supply of energy for irrigation. To address this issue the team has developed an eco-friendly mechanical pump. This project is based on two principles of physics a) The repulsions of like poles of powerful magnets b) The second principle of restoring force of spring. These two principles together constitute creating pressure difference and pumping out of water. When these powerful magnets which are placed in a vertical tube facing each other’s repulsive side (Similar pole charge) and connected to powerful springs on the other side are set in motion, it creates a synchronized movement. This moves the piston attached to the lower magnet in the bore pump and it creates pressure difference in the pipe which is attached to the well water. The bore pump does its work and brings water from the well.
Second prize
Name of the project: Ultimate Power Car
Name of the school: Saraswati Vidyalaya High School and Junior College of Science, Mumbai
Mentor: Abhishek Arun, Co-Founder and Director, Product Development, Fort Portal
Student Participants: Neha Patil, Shraddha Prabhu, Samrudhi Vaidya, Amey Parab, Nirali Chavan
About the experiment: This project aims towards the betterment of our environment by limiting the use of fossil fuels. It uses Electrolytic engine (which runs on common salt {NaCl} and water which are most widely found compounds) to provide an alternative power source for cars. Unlike fossil fuels an electrolytic engines does not release fumes; so it will help reduce the amount of pollution to a considerable extent. Also, this electrolytic car requires only a small amount of NaCl; so more and more energy can be generated by using limited resources in a constructive way.
Third prize
Name of the project: Alternate source of Energy
Name of the school: Poorna Prajna Education Centre, Sadashivnagar
Mentor: Dr. Sanjay Chitnis, Principal, CMR IT Bangalore (Previously Program Head, LG)
Student Participants: Yash Gawankar, C S Bahushruth, Ruchira G, Nikhil S Shastry, Amith Bharadwaj
About the experiment: This project aims at creating an alternative source of power by converting radio waves into electric energy with the help of ‘Rectenna’. A rectenna is a rectifying antenna; a special type of antenna that is used to convert microwave energy into direct current electricity. Whenever it detects any micro waves or radio waves emitted from a phone the diode get forward biased and the led glows. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves they contain photons which are packets of energy. This energy is converted into DC electrical energy.
Fourth prize
Name of the project: Traffic Management System
Name of the school: V K R Acharya English Medium High School, Kundapur, Udupi
Mentor: Naveen G V, Senior Technology Evangelist, Intel Software Products
Student Participants: Amulya A, H.Vivek Giridhar Pai, Alloyd Savid, Menoonca, Rashwin Ravi Shetty, Kashyap.B
About the experiment: The traffic congestion in major cities of India has increased by many folds in the past few years. In spite of building strong infrastructure for roads, traffic signals and flyovers, this has led to regular traffic jams on key junction points and roads. This project avails technology which includes planting of a sophisticated sensor system at traffic junctions which will count the number of vehicles passed (n) and match it with pre-loaded max capacity for the junction (m). In case of n > m, GPS will transmit the information about traffic congestion and the alternative possible routes to the respective driver in a cost effective manner. When a number of vehicles at signal decrease below threshold (n<m) measured by another sensor places after the signal, message flashed on display will stop, urging drivers to drive towards the signal. This simple but effecting idea of managing traffic can result into smoother traffic flow in our always congested cities.
Fifth prize
Name of the project: Leiden frost effect for ships to sail faster
Name of the school: DAV Public School, Rajpura
Mentor: Dr. Swaranjit Singh, Scientist, CSIR
Student Participants: Bhavay, Anuj Wasan, Shubham Singh, Chetanya Chopra, Yashwant Sharma
About the experiment: In the 21st century the world is finger fast and everyone wants the work to be done quickly. However, in case of Cargo ships, they normally sail at the snail pace with average speed of 17-20 knots. The project aims to increase the speed of the ship through ‘Leiden Frost effect’ (if the temperature of the surface (in contact with liquid) is above the boiling point of the liquid then due to the formation of vaporous layer on the surface, the surface will move frictionless above the liquid) which makes the ship sail with about 35-38 knots speed (Almost double). This will result in low fuel consumption and faster delivery of good. The temperature of the ship will be increased through Solar and wind energy.
About Manipal University
Manipal University www.manipal.edu is synonymous with excellence in higher education. Over 28,000 students - from 57 different nations -live, learn and play in the sprawling University town, nestled on a plateau in Karnataka’s Udupi district. It also houses over 2700 faculty and other support and service staff, who cater to the two colleges and 24 professional institutions in medicine, engineering, management and humanities which dot the Wi-Fi-enabled campus.
There is also a campus in nearby Mangalore with a medical, dental and a nursing college with attached teaching hospitals. Another campus, in Dubai, UAE, offers graduate and post graduate courses in engineering, technology and management.
Each of these institutes has world class facilities and pedagogy, which are constantly reviewed and upgraded to reflect the latest trends and developments in higher education.
In Manipal, these include educational facilities like the Simulation Lab with computer driven Manikins, an Innovation Centre, one of Asia’s largest health sciences libraries, one of the world’s best anatomy museums, a business incubation center and various other centers of excellence. Academic collaborations and twinning programs with several universities in the US, UK, Australia and other countries ensure that students get international exposure and expertise.
The MARENA, a massive indoor sports complex with five badminton courts, four squash courts, three tennis courts, a basketball court, a hi-tech gym and a walking track, reflects the university’s belief that a healthy mind needs a healthy body.
Part of the Manipal Group, the University is ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 14001: 2004 certified, and has won the prestigious IMC Ramkrishna Bajaj National Quality Award and the International Asia Pacific Quality Award in 2007- 2008.
The Manipal Group, a pioneer in higher education services with a 60-year-old legacy of excellence, also owns and operates campuses in Sikkim and Jaipur in India, and in Nepal, Malaysia, and Antigua, in the Caribbean.
More details on Teenovators 2014-15 can be sourced from http://www.teenovators.com/
Photo caption: Winning teams with their awards at Teenovators' Grand Finale which was organised in Manipal
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