31 school students get original tech ideas award

The National Innovation Foundation announced on Monday the winners of the original technological ideas and innovations by the schoolgoing students to promote children''s creativity.

The selection of 31 winners from 11 states was made from among over 90,000 submissions through APJ Abdul Kalam IGNITE Competition held from September 1, 2017 to August 31, 2018.

Anushka Shrivastava, a 9th class student of Sagar Public School, Bhopal bagged the award for making biodegradable water bottle using local materials while other winners from Madhya Pradesh are: Tarunendra Tyagi (class VII) of Govt Gyanodaya Vidyalaya, Shahdol for animal carcass picking machine and Mohit Diwan (class XI) of Shanti Niketan Senior Secondary School, Hoshangabad for automatic fungus/algae cleaning machine.

Kiran Choudhary and Adyasha Rath (Class IX) of B J English Medium School in Odisha bagged the award for fall alert alarm in bathroom while Rohit Manavadiya (class XI) of R C Patel School of Gandhinagar won the award for developing dustbin with trapped animal indicator as also a pesticide spray pump with mandatory protective mask. Three other students from Gujarat also bagged the award for this spray pump. They are Parth V Patel (class VIII) and Aditya K Chauhan (Class VI) from Sabarkantha and Jaydeep B Raval (class IX) from Gandhinagar.