IGNITE COMPETITION
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The dream of an innovative and inclusive India cannot be fulfilled without making our children creative and compassionate. Hence, we have to motivate our students to actively participate in creative programs and contests like Dr APJ Abdul Kalam IGNITE competition.
The ideas/innovations can be about improvement in any existing machine or product, which increases its efficiency, output, or reduces drudgery or about an entirely new machine or gadget aiming to improve life of people. These should be original problem-solving ideas/ innovations of the children and not guided by teachers and parents. Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Children Creativity and innovation Award competition accepts entries from students up to class 12 and also from school dropouts. This award aims to develop a culture of the “Samvedna” among the children to find solutions to the local problems, addressing unmet social needs. This idea is to make children aware of the problems and hardships that have been faced by the common people in their day-to-day life with which many of us have learned to adapt and adjust. If children start becoming impatient with social inertia at an early age, it is likely that they will bring about more creative and compassionate changes in the society as they grow up. 
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Announcement 2021
“Students are there not just to teach to, but they should be seen as a crucible of creativity in themselves.”
We are delighted to share that entries for Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam Ignited Mind Children Creativity and Innovation Awards 2021 are now open. These awards are given every year to creative children under 18 years old (either in school or dropped out) who have devised, derived, or thought of an innovative solution to any persistence social problem.
Therefore, we kindly request you to spread the word in and around your institution and neighborhood and encourage such students to apply for the awards who have thought of a solution to any common, day-to-day life problem/s and have devised or thought of any method to solve them.
Certain eligibilities/instructions for applying for the awards are:
You can also send his/her idea/s on the following email ID: [email protected]
For more information kindly visit: https://www.sristi.org/ignited-mind
For any other queries, contact:
Email: [email protected]
Phone/WhatsApp: 9313246772.
Last date to send the entries is 31 August, 2021.
We are delighted to share that entries for Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam Ignited Mind Children Creativity and Innovation Awards 2021 are now open. These awards are given every year to creative children under 18 years old (either in school or dropped out) who have devised, derived, or thought of an innovative solution to any persistence social problem.
Therefore, we kindly request you to spread the word in and around your institution and neighborhood and encourage such students to apply for the awards who have thought of a solution to any common, day-to-day life problem/s and have devised or thought of any method to solve them.
Certain eligibilities/instructions for applying for the awards are:
- Children up-to standard 12th or if dropped out of school, under 18 years of age
- A student can send more than one entry.
- One can send a sketch or drawing of his/her idea/innovation while applying (though it’s not compulsory).
- If a teacher is involved with a student in devising any idea, s/he will also be awarded.
- Kindly ensure that the idea being sent is original to the student and is unaided by anyone. Teacher’s/parent’s involvement would be accepted only at the application/designing/prototyping stage.
You can also send his/her idea/s on the following email ID: [email protected]
For more information kindly visit: https://www.sristi.org/ignited-mind
For any other queries, contact:
Email: [email protected]
Phone/WhatsApp: 9313246772.
Last date to send the entries is 31 August, 2021.
ABOUT: National innovation Foundation-India (NIFI)
•NIF – India was set up in March 2000 with the assistance of Department of Science and Technology (DST).
• NIF scouts, supports and spawns’ grassroots innovations and outstanding traditional knowledge based applications developed by individuals and local communities in any technological field, helping in human survival without any help from formal sector.
• It also tries to ensure that such innovations diffuse widely through commercial and/or non-commercial channels, generating material or non-material incentives for them and others involved in the value chain.
• NIF conducts National Biennial Grassroots Innovation Award Functions and annual Dr A P J Abdul Kalam Ignite Children Award functions.
• NIF has also set up an augmented Fabrication Laboratory (Fab Lab) for product development and strengthening inhouse research.
• Micro Venture Innovation Fund (MVIF) at NIF, with support from Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI), has provided risk capital to 230 innovation based enterprise projects.
• The INSPIRE Award – MANAK (Million Minds Augmenting National Aspiration and Knowledge) is being revamped and executed by DST and NIF-India to align it with the action plan for “Start-up India” initiative.
• NIF scouts, supports and spawns’ grassroots innovations and outstanding traditional knowledge based applications developed by individuals and local communities in any technological field, helping in human survival without any help from formal sector.
• It also tries to ensure that such innovations diffuse widely through commercial and/or non-commercial channels, generating material or non-material incentives for them and others involved in the value chain.
• NIF conducts National Biennial Grassroots Innovation Award Functions and annual Dr A P J Abdul Kalam Ignite Children Award functions.
• NIF has also set up an augmented Fabrication Laboratory (Fab Lab) for product development and strengthening inhouse research.
• Micro Venture Innovation Fund (MVIF) at NIF, with support from Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI), has provided risk capital to 230 innovation based enterprise projects.
• The INSPIRE Award – MANAK (Million Minds Augmenting National Aspiration and Knowledge) is being revamped and executed by DST and NIF-India to align it with the action plan for “Start-up India” initiative.
Resources
Inventions by Indian Students
Inventions by students from around the world
Great Scientists and their inventions
Inventions websites
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