Exciting student innovations showcased at IIT Bombay’s Invention Factory
India Today
IIT Bombay's six-week Invention Factory programme just saw its finale where exciting student innovations were judged by a distinguished jury of innovators.
The finale of the Invention Factory programme at IIT Bombay, a six-week-long ideate-to-prototype-to-pitch initiative, was held on July 1, 2022. Student participants of the Invention Factory Programme presented and demonstrated their inventions during the finale.
These student innovations were presented to and evaluated by a distinguished jury of innovators. The finale concluded with the grand announcement of the winners, a felicitation ceremony for the jury members, and a gala dinner.
The Invention Factory Programme commenced on May 19, 2022, and brought together 20 students from different IITs across India. They worked in teams of two to prototype and pitch their inventions.
A total of 10 inventions were developed by the student teams during this period. For each of these inventions, a provisional patent application will be filed, one in the US and one in India.
Three teams were declared the winners of the programme on the basis of their unique and solution-oriented inventions.
Sripriya Konda and Shaan Sapru from IIT Kharagpur were placed first and took home a cash prize of Rs. 2 Lakhs for successfully developing a ‘Smart Clubfoot Brace.’
This device is a smart corrective brace for kids with an objective to ensure a higher compliance rate, enabling every baby with clubfoot to sleep comfortably.
