Udupi: Gayatri College, Hyderabad girls are best Teenovators

Bellevision Media Network

Udupi, 23 Jan 2015: Gayatri Junior College for Girls, Bachupally, Hyderabad emerged winners of Teenovators 2014 - 2015 held at Dr TMA Pai Hall here on Wednesday January 21, for their project on eco-friendly mechanical pump. And with the win, they bagged a cash prize of Rs 5 lac well.

 

Teenovators is a competition for schools across the country being organised by Manipal University to provide young minds a platform to showcase their creative and innovative skills.

 

Saraswathi Vidyalaya High School and Junior College of Science, Thane was the first runners-up for their project on Ultimate Power Car and Poornaprajna Education Centre, Sadashivnagar clinched the second runners-up spot. Their project was all about creating alternative source of Energy. The teams got cash prizes of Rs 3 and Rs.1 lac 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.

 

The near-five-month long competition which saw nearly two lakh students from over 600 schools take part ended today after the judges grilled the students on their projects and concluded that the girls from Bachupally had the best exhibit among the ten in the fray for the final. These teams were trained and mentored by experts from Dell, GE Global Research, Microsoft, Intel, Nvidia, CSIR and CMR IT.

 

An excited Anunitya from Gayatri Junior College, Bachupally said, ‘Teenovators proved to be an important milestone in our life. It has given us sense of responsibility towards society and has motivated us to develop projects that will have an impact on society. While we are overwhelmed 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.’

 

A number of principals and teachers of various schools from across the country attended the grand finale of the competition. They were all praise for the competition which has caught the imagination of young minds.

 

The prize distribution was held later in the day. Srinivas Prasad, CEO Innovation Campus, Bangalore was the chief guest. Varun Agarwal – young entrepreneur, author and film-maker was the guest of honor.

 

Dr Ramdas Pai, chancellor of Manipal University presided the function.