IITM Incubation Cell launched “Build To Innovate” Challenge in early March, tailored exclusively for students across our Partner Institutes. In its first edition, the focus was on challenges within the hashtag#Rural and hashtag#Agriculture space.
Read more: https://lnkd.in/gxrHsM9z


The Third Semi-Final was conducted on 24 April in hashtag#Chennai (at IIT Madras Research Park (IITMRP)

14 shortlisted student teams from the following partner institutes presented before a jury (Kannan Lakshminarayan, Nanu Swamy, Ashwin Prasad and Dhanaganapathy Madhavan) and demonstrated their prototypes (under the two challenges - Agri machinery and IoT in Rural areas):

1. College of Engineering, Trivandrum (CET)
2. Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
3. Presidency University Bangalore
4. Sri Vishnu Educational Society (SVES Group), Telangana & AP
5. SSN Institutions, Chennai, India, Kalavakkam

Semi-finalists were recognised for their participation and efforts with a certificate from hashtag#IITMIC. Some students shared their prototyping experiences and queries were clarified by the jury members.

Swostik Sourav Dash (Founder & CEO, NeoMotion) delivered a keynote (shared his journey as an entrepreneur), followed by a special address by Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala, President of hashtag#IITMRP and hashtag#IITMIC.

The 3 winning teams from this cluster, and 2 teams as hashtag#IITMIC choice, will now participate in the Finals, scheduled during the last week of June at IIT Madras Research Park, Chennai.

View how the day unfolded: https://lnkd.in/dTZT-uf6


Revisit Semi final 1 - https://lnkd.in/dpRJvZxF

Revisit Semi final 2 - https://lnkd.in/dBNt7GjM


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