In the memory of Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, the Honey Bee Network, SRISTI, and GIAN jointly organise a national competition of student’s innovative and creative ideas with the name of Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Ignited Mind Children Creativity and Innovation Award. The competition accepts entries from students up to class 12 or children up-to 18 years of age. This award aims to develop a culture of the samvedanaamongst the children to address unmet social needs. The 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 and with which many of us have learned to live with. Hence 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.
Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Ignited Mind Children Creativity and Innovation Awards 2020 received around 9000 entries from 22 states and UTs across the country. Out of these, 9 awards and 6 appreciations were selected. The virtual award ceremony was held on March 11, 2021 and the awards were given away by eminent scholar Padma Vibhushan Dr RA Mashelkar, FRS.
Padma Shri Prof Anil Gupta while welcoming the guests highlighted that Late Shri Abdul Kalam had always been a great promotor that children should be allowed to think without any bias or notion implanted onto them. He also stressed that children, when left free to think and act according to their own will, look for unconventional ideas to solve unmet societal needs.
Hon’ble chief guest of the function Dr Mashelkar, while addressing the children, pointed out the need to promote more such activities at national as well as local level to encourage children to work towards meeting the unmet needs of the society. He also said that even if we eventually find water on the moon, it would be of little help if we could not save water in our surrounding areas. He also mentioned when people ask him why is he such an optimistic personality, he says that it is the children of this country which gives him hope and confidence that India’s future is in good hands and so the reason behind him being such an optimistic person.
For the screening and selection of the awards, the Members of the review Committee included Prof Anil K. Gupta (Founder, Honey Bee Network, SRISTI, GIAN, & NIF, and CSIR Bhatnagar Fellow 2018-21), Shri PVM Rao (Professor and Head, Department of Design, IITDelhi), Dr Viswajanani Sattigeri (Head, CSIR TKDL), Prof Vijaya Sherry Chand (Professor & Chairperson, Ravi J. Matthai Centre for Educational Innovation, IIM Ahmedabad), Prof Ambrish Dongre (Professor, RJMCEI, IIM Ahmedabad), Prof Premilla D’Cruz (Professor, IIM Ahmedabad), Prof Navdeep Mathur (Professor, IIMAhmedabad), Dr Vipin Kumar (Director and Chief Innovation Officer, NIF), Dr Nitin Maurya (Scientist, NIF), and Dr Anamika Dey (CEO, GIAN).
Highlights of the awards:
- The HBN received overwhelming response from the students despite the fact that we sent out the announcements for the ignitedmind Awards during the lockdown. Reaching out to the schools for the purpose during the pandemic was also a challenge. But nothing could dampen the enthusiasm of the students who sent their entries in huge numbers.
- We promoted this activity through social media, volunteers of Honey Bee Network [HBN], teachers and other like-minded organizations. The HBN received around 3000 entries from online and 6000 from organizations associated with HBN including GIAN, InShodh, SIR Foundation, HBN Innovation Clubs of Haryana, Orrissa, Himachal Pradesh, SRISTI etc. The award and appreciated consolation award winning entries were nine and six respectively. After reviewing the entries, we could see the enthusiasm of the children in addressing the unmet social needs.
- The entries were received from students of all classes from rural government schools and private schools in metropolitan areas. We received entries from even dropout children. This clearly shows that awards are not restricted to students from any particular background and their creativity cannot be limited by any constraints.
- The children from non-metro cities bagged the most awards, primarily from tier-3 and 2 cities leaving only a small pie for the children from metro cities.
- The students did not restrict themselves to submitting their ideas to solve the current problems but also chose to give solutions to deal with future problems and unforeseen issues like Covid-19. It is very evident that given an opportunity, spirit of creativity and zeal of our children can make a positive difference in our society.
- We were also able to convert some of the award winning ideas into products for use by the common people. One such example is a sieving device to clean various grains ideated by Bodhisatva Ganesh Khanderao of Yavatmal, Maharashtra. He made nearly six different designs of the device (of which the latest one is selected for Ignited Mind appreciation award) and distributed such machines to 48 widows.
- There were also cases where we received ideas which have already been given shape in India or abroad and hence we could not accept such brilliant ideas for awards.
- These awards have reinforced a culture of innovation amongst children, their teachers and family members as well. Children don’t need endorsement or mediation of their parents or teachers in sending any number of ideas to the Network institutions, including GIAN, SRISTI and all other collaborators and volunteers at ignitedmind@honeybee.org. The HBN acknowledges their help and hopes that the support from them and new volunteers will continue to scout and resolve the unmet social problems.
List of the awardees:
| Awards | |||||
| Sr.No | Name | Address | Contact No | Title | Idea |
| 1 | Ms. Jui Abhijit Keskar | The Orchid School, Baner – Mhalunge Road, Baner, Pune ,Maharastra | 9845867290 | An apparatus for measuring the tremor of a patient affected by Parkinson’s disease. | As described in the drawing, the wearable device will track the 3-D movement of the limb of the patent and signals thereof are received by the controller, which is connected to a database on the cloud. Web application on the cloud can generate the tremor profiling of the patient. Charts can be directly accessed by the patient and the doctor. This will help the doctor to understand the intensity, spread, frequency, duration of the tremor and to decide upon the right kind of drug administration and physiotherapy planning. Further, the doctor can also get to know the anxiety level of the patient. |
| 2 | Sejuti Sarkar | Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya,Howrah ,West Bengal | 9153033152 | TYPHA: An organic water purifier beg | The roots of Typha plant are to be cleaned with water and ground to powder form. Ten grams of this powder sealed in small bag can be put in 500ml water for 25-30 minutes to get a completely purified and potable water. This affordable method of purifying water, would benefit all sections of the society. |
| 3 | Shreyas Gedam | Dhyaneshwar vidyalaya, salebhata, Th lakhni, dist Bhandara,Mumbai, Maharasta | 9623441089 | Cycle-operated Low Cost Spraying Machine | This cycle-operated spraying machine helps in ploughing as well as spraying operation with much ease minimising the hardship. It is portable, low-cost and user-friendly. |
| 4 | Sourav | GSSS Camp Yamunanagar, Haryana | 9416377166 | A device for laying and wrapping | A device designed to save time for laying mid-day meal in proper manner and wrapping it up as a takeaway. |
| 5 | Parthvi | Mukund Lal Public School Sarojini colony Yamunanagar, Haryana | 9416892466 | Supply of fresh air to the house through electrical fittings | We keep pipes of electrical fittings with its wires in the underground in a hollow soft plastic pipe of 3 to 6 mm. All the rooms, lobby and kitchen will have these wires embedded nearby the switch boards. We will install an electric pump / blower at the top of the roof. This pump will send air through that 6mm soft pipe to all rooms, each of which will have window in each electrical switch board. Fresh air will come inside the house through that window placed nearby the switch board. This method will increase the oxygen level in the house. In the event of closed windows and doors, fresh air will still continue to enter the house through the soft plastic pipes. of electrical fittings. A small hole in the switch board can be made to keep fresh air flow in the rooms. To maintain the circulation of fresh air in that pipe, we have to install a motorized blower with filters on the roof. |
| 6 | Digantika Bose | Memari 3 No ward , P.O and PS- Memari Distric-t Purba Bardhaman | 9434407305 | Ear pressure reduction tool due to the use of mask | Health workers, police, have to wear mask for a long time of the day. As a result after constant pressure on the ears. I feel this problem as a result of wearing a mask. And with the help of a discarded plastic,(or any flexible board) I make a design that will stick to the back of the head when you use the mask. As a result, there will be no pressure on the ears. As a result, there will be no problem of ear pain for a long time using the mask. |
| 7 | Charmi B pandya | Vidhyamandir, palanpur | 9925044838 | A Chair for old and physically challenged people | Some people cannot sit on the ground. Many adult and physically challenged people face the problem while standing. A chair should be made in such a manner that the person sitting on it could stand with help of handle placed on the side chair so that the pressure on that handle will increase the meeting space. This will make it easier for the person with disabilities to get up from the surface of the ground without any hardship. |
| 8 | Aniket Prashant Kakde | School of Scholars ,Yavatmal, Maharashtra | Mobile Oprated automatic santatize Machine | 1)BBC News :- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v21rfVmlyo 2)Innovation for Indian Railway :- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zxieWxUHSY 3)SAN-AUTO COVID-19 : – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLgter7_qLs&t=9s 4)India Book of Record :- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeI6xfw0oT8 5)Innovator’s Journey :- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybq8TS-Q1A8&t=5s 6)DD Sahyadri Agricultural Robot :- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3wRemfmApE 7)Innovation on Red FM 93.5 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhCvycjs3Vk&t=4s 8)Awareness camp at School :- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4dMVTdddu0 9)Website :- http://anfosys.in/ 10)Youtube Channel :- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr54ztrVH84JGQSTGXjzlog | |
| 9 | Sree Samhita Gundimeda | Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 3 Gandhinagar cantt, Army Cantt, Gujarat – 382042 | 9274908907 | Finger crushed Detector | We start by connecting out IR (infrared sensors) which are used for detecting obstacles (a human hand or fingers) to the Arduino and feed that information to the micro-controller. The IR sensor is arranged as, in one direction ( up or down) will be transmitters and the other side will be receivers. All the IR transmitters and receivers will be connected to one Arduino. The IR’s will detect any object which will go to the Arduino and glow the LED (for light indication) or can also be used for a voice message or alert. The light transmitted by the LED can be sensed by the photosensitive sensor or by programming Arduino when IR sensors detect obstacles, can be used as signals to the hinges to lock itself in place or put an obstacle in the middle. If we are using special lock hinges, these have to be designed for this purpose.
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| Appreciations | |||||
| Sr.No | Name | Address | Contact No | Title | Idea |
| 1 | Yash Gokul Kshirsagar | Malojiraje Vidyalay, Lonand At Post Lonand Taluka Khandala Dist satara Maharastra |
9860656168 | Groundnut Seed Thresher | Groundnut Seed thresher Seed separation of groundnut is daily need in kitchen. The thresher is made from all waste part of motorcycle and bicycle. First we have to pour whole groundnut in the machine. Then when we rotate its pedal, seeds and crushed earpods fall down on earth and we can easily separate seed and its earpods.. It can separate one kg seeds in one minute. It does not require any fuel. Its economical and ecofriendly. |
| 2 | Sandip biswas | Jawahar Navodaya vidyalaya pirulia , West Bengal | 8101989021 | Folding Crutches with chair | I have designed crutches with a facility for sitting for the physically challenged. In this system, two parts of a crutch shown in the diagram can be folded to form a chair. And by this the person can sit anywhere without any extra efforts. This is much more helpful for them and the existing crutches can also be modified at low cost. |
| 3 | Priyanka Tarki | Holy Cross Higher Secondary School Chattisgarh | 7748887735 | A machine making fuel from co2 | By using this machine, we can save diesel and petrol. It machine uses the atmospheric CO2 as an alternate for this. The CO2 that is present in the atmosphere is used to collect and heated as very high temperature by using various chemical reactions for it. |
| 4 | Vishal Kumar | Damla Yamuna nagar | Battery Rickshaw for cleaning purpose | This rickshaw is solar-powered and battery operated. It has a roof to protect us from sun and rain. A motor has been fitted into it. A broom attached with the motor, cleans the street wherever this rickshaw moves. The garbage is swept on one side of the road on the move. The most important part is that there is solar panel which chagres the battery. | |
| 5 | Busra Imtiyaz Deg | Prathmic Sara parkhet , Gujarat | 9727065548 | Litmus Paper for sweetness detection in fruit | Now-a-days, the vendors incline to inject artificial sweetness to the fruits and vegetable to boost their sales and earn extra money at the cost of our health. We can use a litmus paper to detect the extent of sweetness of fruit/vegetable from the natural one. When the vegetables/fruits are put to test by the litmus paper, the colour changes as indication of artificial usage of sweetness on the fruits/vegetables. |
| 6 | Bodhisatva Ganesh khanderao | Kendriya Vidyalay | Mechanical Sieve- Labour free Multigrain Cleaning Machine | The machine is used to clean a huge amount of different types grain in every harvest season. This model is called mechanical sieve or sift. This is a very simple machine which we can use it manually or electrically. This sift is kept on a firm metal stand. Just you have to move it up and down like a see-saw. This sift is based on the first class lever technique. The fulcrum is in the middle. Load and effort changes simultaneously. We can change the size of the machine as per the need. Also mesh can be changed as per the size of grain. | |
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