Two teams of students from Belgaum and Vellore won the first prize of `40,000 at the third edition of the InoVIT 2014, organised by the VIT university recently.

Event organiser A Ruban Kumar said around 1,600 student-participants of classes 9 to 12, from the southern States had taken part. The events were categorised into working model, idea presentation, poster presentation and quiz in the preliminary and final rounds. The top two winners for the three prizes in each of these events, selected by a panel, were given a total cash prize of `3 lakh.

Elton John and team mates from St Paul’s High School from Belgaum, who developed a spy robot and a smart wheel chair developed by Karthik, Mukesh and Pranesh from Avinesh Infotech Robotic Academy, Vellore were the two teams that clinched the first prize for the Working Model Category.

In the idea presentation category, Anga Sasha from Little Angel School, Visakapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, and a team led by Visakan from Kalgi Ranganathan Montford School Chennai, jointly won the first prize of `35,000 for the idea of specially designed goggles for blind people to see using the principle of ‘echolocation,’ and ‘oceanic electromagnetic waves fencing,’ to help fishermen maintain maritime boundaries respectively.Misba Fathima and team from Islamiah Girls Higher Secondary School, Vaniyambadi, and Rishab Jain and his team from Maharishi International School, Chennai, jointly won the first prize of `35,000 in the poster presentation category.

Naveen Unnikrishnan and team from Bhavan’s Adarsh Vidyalaya, Kochi, and Vicknesh and his team from Bakthavachalam Vidyashram, Chennai, won the first prize of  `20,000 each in the quiz group I (9 and 10 classes) and group II(11 and 12 classes) respectively.

source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> States> Tamil Nadu / by Express News Service – Vellore / January 16, 2014