A 2,500-word essay titled ‘Paving Better Paths For Little Feet’, proposing innovative ways to effectively rehabilitate Chennai’s estimated 50,000 street children, has won Vishnupriya Viswanathan, a fourth year architecture student of Manipal University, first prize in an online Berkeley Prize Essay Competition (version 18), besting 150 participants from 20 countries worldwide. The 21-year-old was […]
Mangalore-based Ajay Gopi (19) has been selected for the Youth Ventures programme of the US-based Ashoka Innovators for the Public (formerly Ashoka Foundation). Ajay has designed a social entrepreneurship venture incorporating aquaponics technology, which will employ rural youth and benefit farming communities. As a member of Ashoka’s Youth Venture programme initiated last September, Ajay will […]
Nirmal Kumar Mahapatra (16) and Sailesh Ranjan (15) — class X students of Mother’s Public School (MPS), Bhubaneswar — were crowned champions at the National CBSE Science Exhibition 2015-16 staged in Delhi on February 8-10.
This annual science competition — open to class VI-XI students — conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education, drew 400 […]
Bangalore-based Ashish S, Priyesh Tiwari, P. Kiran Kumar Reddy and Udith Raju — all class IX students of the Air Force School (AFS), Hebbal, bonded together under the name and style of Team Cloneators — were crowned champions of Teenovators 2015-16, an annual national inter-school science and technology competition, the finals of which were staged […]
Gurgaon-based Arhan Bagati (16) is the latest teen to join the brigade of precocious app ideators mushrooming countrywide. Supported by the Paralympic Committee of India (PCI), Arhan has conceptualised and helped develop ‘inRio’, a free app which can be downloaded on iOS and Android devices, to ensure better manoeuvrability and quality of life for para-athletes […]
Karate black belt Sai Kunthavi Senthil Kumar (11), a class VI student of the SSVM World School, Coimbatore, was recently crowned Under-12 champion in the Kata event — a sequence of karate stances practiced solo or in pairs against imaginary opponents — at the 8th Commonwealth Karate Championship staged in New Delhi on September […]
Undeterred by a history of autism since age two, Ranveer Singh Saini (14) created history to become the first Indian junior champion in the GF Golf-level 2 alternate shot team play event at the Special Olympics World Summer Games 2015, staged in Los Angeles between July 25-August 2. The duo of Ranveer and Monica Jajoo […]
Undoubtedly to the surprise of his hosts, Lucknow-based kung fu martial arts practitioner Akash Yadav (17) bagged two gold medals in the Shaolinquan and soft weapon categories at the fourth World Kung Fu Championship 2015 held in Beijing (July 17-22). The championship attracted 10,000 contestants from 60 countries around the world.
A third-year computer engineering student of Manav Rachna College of Engineering, Faridabad, Roopam Sharma (20) has designed a real-time tracking system for patients suffering from dementia. On May 27, Emancipator was adjudged a ‘Top 10 Global Innovation’ at the online Microsoft Youth Spark Challenge for Change 2015. The award includes prize money of $2,500 […]
Consistently crowned the u-15, U-17 and U-19 badminton (singles and doubles) Uttar Pradesh state champion since she relocated from Kolkata to Lucknow in 2012, Riya Mookerjee (17) is the latest hot prospect in Indian badminton, set to follow in the footsteps of Saina Nehwal and P.V. Sindhu. Back on the courts following injuries which kept […]
With a SAT score of 2,360 out of a maximum possible 2,400, Pulkit Agarwal (18), hitherto a class XII student of The Doon School, Dehradun (TDS, estb.1935), has received admission and scholarship offers valued at $61,000 (Rs.38.8 lakh) from 15 US universities including seven Ivy League varsities ” Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, UPenn, Brown, Cornell and […]
Navi Mumbai-based Shubham Vammali (18) recently dived into the elite league of long-distance swimmers worldwide. He completed two of the most difficult endurance swimathons of the high seas by swimming the English Channel and the Strait of Gibraltar.
This young ‘merman’ made his debut in the international long-distance swimmers league last August, when he swam the […]
A second year engineering student of the Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT), Aadarsh Mishra (18) has published 23 international research papers ” on subjects ranging from material sciences to nanotechnology ” the highest so far by an undergrad in India. Based on his research output, Aadarsh was offered a scholarship of £3,000 (Rs.3 lakh) to […]
Sreyash Sarkar (21), a promising polymath whose interests range across poetry, art, writing, music and engineering, who was in his hometown Kolkata for a fleeting visit, is currently a third-year student of electrical and electronics engineering at Bangalore’s RNS Institute of Technology. Last month (November) Sense of Elsewhere, a Vancouver (Canada)-based magazine acclaimed him ‘poet […]
Pranavan Sathanakrishnan, Sneha Priya and Harish Sampathkumar recent (2012) engineering graduates of the top-ranked College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University have chosen to decline high-paying jobs to promote the Chennai-based SP Robotic Works Pvt. Ltd (SPRW, estb. 2012) and Aikaa Automation Pvt. Ltd (AAPL, 2014). SPRW manufactures robot components and offers robotics education to school […]
INDIA SCHOOL ROBOTICS CHAMPIONS Team Bangalore Mavericks ” comprising Nikhit Laxman (15) and Shubham Singla (14) ” was ranked #3 at the 15th World Robofest 2014 hosted by Lawrence Tech University (LTU) in South Field, Michigan, USA on May 17. The awards include an undergrad scholarship for LTU, plus gift vouchers and a trophy.
Jalandhar (Punjab)-based Aditi (17, who doesn’t use a surname) was the top-ranked girl in the all-India joint entrance examination (JEE) 2014 for admission into the country’s 17 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), the results of which were declared in June. This student of the Swami Sant Dass Public School, Jalandhar, who averaged 95.4 percent in […]
“CIVILIAN DRONES are just a few years away from becoming commonplace,” says high-tech innovator Yashaan Cooper (20). In May, this robotics enthusiast together with Rohit Saluja and Vishank Bhatia — all second-year electronics and communications engineering students of the Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Dubai — were shortlisted in the students’ category to compete […]
A TEAM OF THREE aeronautical engineering students of ACS College of Engineering, Bangalore Tabrez Nadvi Anser (21), Pawan MJ (21) and Vignesh Arul (20) were declared winners of the inaugural Boeing National Aero-modelling competition staged in Delhi on April 12. Over 170 teams nationwide competed for the winner’s trophy and prize money purse of Rs.1 […]
KOLKATA-BASED Arunavha Chanda (18) has made history by scoring a perfect 2,400 in the SAT (formerly known as Scholastic Assessment Test) subject tests ” physics, chemistry and maths Level II. SAT is the common admission exam administered worldwide by the College Board, a US-based not-for-profit organisation for undergrad admissions into American and other varsities around […]
MUMBAI-BASED Angad Daryani (15) is the latest teen to join the brigade of precocious global IT (information technology) entrepreneurs. With parental support, this self-styled open source software and hardware developer promoted Shark India Pvt. Ltd in 2012, and is getting ready to launch the country’s most cost-efficient, fastest, and most robust desktop 3-D printers. Priced […]
WITH HIS FLUENT groundstrokes and sharp volleys, Nikshep BR (16) is the newest sensation on Bangalore’s jumping tennis scene. Last October, this early teen was crowned Under-16 national tennis champion at the Fenesta Open National Tennis Championships 2013 of the Delhi Lawn Tennis Association. Nor is this the only trophy on his family’s mantelpiece. Thus […]
Unlike his friends who are preparing for their class XI exams, Lucknow-based Saubhagya Vardhan, a student of Noida’s National Institute of Open Schooling, expects to be attending classes at Stanford University, USA, this autumn. By virtue of his excellent grades” the highest grade in four of five subjects” in the AP (Advanced Placement) exam written […]
Kolkata-based Simran Kapur (17) was conferred the Young Chef India Schools Award 2013 following a major cookout competition staged at the University of West London last September. This class XII student of Modern High School won the Young Chef Finale, a competition for students in class XII, organised by the International Institute of Hotel Management […]
Dhruv Dhananjay Tapasvi (16), a class X student of the British School, New Delhi, has made history by topping the additional math International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE ” class X) exam of Cambridge International Examinations (CIE), UK, written by students of 3,700 schools in 160 countries. This global #1 spot apart, the […]
Budding Bangalore-based badminton ace Shikha Gautam (15) is set to go places. In 2012 she was ranked #1 in the Under-15 doubles (with partner Mahima Aggarwal) and #2 in singles. Since the start of this year, she’s won four titles in the U-17 and U-19 singles and doubles categories at the Li Ning 5-star state […]
“Maths competitions are number games. If you abide by the rules of numerical logic, you win,” says Jonnalagadda Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash (13), a class X student of the co-ed Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Public School (estb. 1979), Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad and winner of the Malaysia based SIP International’s Abacus Competition 2013, staged in Singapore on September […]
A dozen shining stars of the co-ed, CBSE-affiliated Lakshmipat Singhania Academy, Kolkata (LSA, estb.1996), a K-12 day school (ranked #14 in the latest EW India School Rankings in the city of joy), won the 20 Settlement Design Competition of the Johnson Space Centre, Houston, Texas, held between August 2-5. Earlier in February, the LSA team […]
A group of six Mumbai-based students, aged between nine-16 have been awarded the Gold Championship of the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Lego League (FLL) Asia Pacific Championship, a global engineering and robotics competition held in Sydney, Australia, between July 4-6. The only Indian team to have won an FLL championship, […]
For Bangalore-based Sharath Gayakwad (22), who was recently crowned National paralympics swimming champion for the ninth time since 2003, no challenge is insurmo-untable. Currently ranked world #9 after clocking his personal best in four events at the X Paralympic Games staged in London last September, Sharath didnt make the podium but derived consol-ation from being […]
A team comprising Jyotirmoy Guha, Arka De and Aditya Gupta — students of the private sector Heritage Institute of Technology (HIT), Kolkata — has won the TI Analog Design Phase I (TI ADC) contest 2012-2013. The trio of final year students reading electronics and communication engineering, were awarded the first prize of Rs.10,000 in the contest […]
Criminal Investigation Department: Information and Data Analysis System— a live cloud computing project — has won MCA (Masters in computer applications) students Gaurav Kumar (23) and Kumari Shilpi (22) the first prize in version 4.0 of the Bangalore-based Unisys India’s Cloud 20.20 online technical project contest conducted in August 2012, whose results were announced recently.
A class XI student of Manav Rachna International School (MRIS), Gurgaon, Emaad Muzaffar (17) was conferred a Global Youth Award at the International Lakes & Rivers Conclave and Education Exhibition held in Frankfurt (Germany) between March 24-28. The first Indian student to participate in this biannual event, Emaad has been adjudged the best speaker among […]
India’s squash racquets champion Saurav Ghosal (26) is among the world’s Top 20 (# 19) players in this testing indoor game which requires lightning-fast reflexes, stamina and grit. Ghosal was in the garden city recently to participate — and win — the Bangalore Invitational Squash Tournament 2013 hosted by the Karnataka Badminton Association.
A class XII student of Noida-based Pathways World School, Evan Luthra (18) is a ‘computer scientist’ in his own right and make. Over the past four years, he has developed over 30 apps including StudySocia, Awenest, El Design, Geek Platter, Digital Strategist, etc, for mobile phones and other companies such as Google India, iPhone, Blackberry, […]
The global acclaim and Golden Globe and Oscar awards won by the feature film Life of Pi which narrates the story of a ship-wrecked Puducherry teenage boy adrift on a lifeboat in the Pacific for 227 days, has transformed Bangalore students Md Abbas Khaleeli (16) and Vibish Sivakumar (23) into minor celebrities in this garden-turned-garbage city. They […]
Although the test prep business sector is crowded with an estimated 30,000 coaching schools and firms, it reflects well on the native spirit of enterprise that there’s no shortage of edupreneurs entering this highly competitive business. The latest entrants in this sector are Vivek Gupta (24), Mirik Gogri (23) and Nitesh Salvi (23) — final […]
Shashrek Ambardar (16), a class XI humanities student of Ryan International School, Noida and a Bharatnatyam dancer since age nine, is busy preparing for a solo dance performance at the International Children’s Festival of Performing Arts (an annual global event of the Ryan International Group of Institutions) scheduled for January 2013. Awarded the Balshree for creative […]
Bangalore-based Aditi Ashok (14) is a natural of the golfing greens. Having started to swing the club at age six, she has since become the youngest player in the garden city with a scratch handicap, and last year this early teen has crowned the national amateur champion at the 95th All India Ladies Amateur Championship […]
The accolades have been torrential for Ahmedabad boy Rush Kalaria (19), a member of the victorious team which won the International Cricket Council-sponsored Under-19 Cricket World Cup 2012. In the 16-day-long international biannual tournament held in Australia between August 11-26, which attracted teams from 16 countries, the India Under-19 XI beat Australia by six wickets […]
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