Samsung’s work around youngsters in India continues with one of the company’s biggest initiatives — Solve for Tomorrow, which welcomes a culture of innovative thinking and problem-solving amongst the country’s youth. The company has announced the Top 10 teams of its national education and innovation competition. These are teams that have come up with ideas to solve real-world problems and they come from different parts of the country — Darjeeling, Maharajganj, Lakhimpur, Golaghat, Surat, Ahmedabad, Ernakulam, Chennai and Delhi.
For the second year of the competition, Samsung India has partnered with the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology’s (MeitY’s) Startup Hub and Foundation for Innovation & Technology Transfer (FITT), IIT Delhi.
The Top 10 teams of Solve for Tomorrow 2023 were shortlisted after a bootcamp at IIT Delhi. Each team received Rs 20,000 to create initial prototypes and then pitched their ideas to a jury of young Samsung employees.
“We are proud of our ‘Solvers’. Through their ideas, they have shown their passion to solve the problems India faces today. Their diverse backgrounds make Solve for Tomorrow 2023 even more inclusive and we are glad Samsung is able to play its part in empowering and supporting the next generation to achieve their full potential,” said Hyun Kim, corporate vice-president, Samsung Southwest Asia.
The top 10 teams are Demeter (working on identifying pests and diseases in crops), Hackvengers (developing a sign language interpretation device), Jalraaj (working on a portable solution to convert seawater into water that can be used for drinking), Milaan (an app that will help families find their children who may have gone missing), Musketeers (enhance accessibility and inclusivity for individuals with hearing loss), NIT Surat (tackling the problem of cleaning beaches where significant amounts of waste is accumulated), Releathered (sustainable leather tanning process), TEG (reusing food waste from cafeterias to create biogas that could power community project), Think (help people stay cool in the summer heat) and Touchpad (reading solution for visually impaired individuals).
Over the next 12 weeks, the teams will work on enhancing their prototypes for the final pitch. The annual programme will end with the announcement of three national winners who stand a chance to win Rs 1.5 crore in prize money.