Think Big and Differently ….Yes Our Children Do It !!!!

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Natarajan

“Innovations” from young minds took India by storm; the innovations were pragmatic, sensible and can find wide prevalence in India and across the globe. Though these innovations were just in “idea” form, the young Indians are hopeful of striving to bring them to existence, may be in the future.
The National Innovation Foundation India (NIF), Ahmedabad has announced the names of the 29 award winners of the IGNITE 2012, an annual competition organized by the NIF in association with Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), Society for Research and Initiatives in Sustainable Technologies and Institutions (SRISTI), various State Education Boards and other partners.
The competition became a platform where the school students shared innovative ideas and offered solutions on issues local and global. It was held between 11 September 2011 and 31 August 2012 and had received over 14,889 submissions from students who participated from 282 districts in the country.
Read on to know 24 such amazing innovations that impressed the NIF panel, as compiled by rediff.com.
 Spray on gloves and socks
Aditya Joshi
Class 8, Bal Shikshan Mandir, Pune, Maharashtra
Aditya’s innovative spray is water-proof and self-sealing; it provides excellent protection for anyone working with their hands and feet. So it can be used by a factory worker handling dangerous chemicals, or a farmer standing bare-foot in water-filled paddy fields, and so on.
“I had noticed people like garbage collectors, or even farmers, work in unhygienic conditions that made them vulnerable to diseases. It made me think of this idea that gives protection and could be made easily available at an affordable cost,” replied Aditya when asked how he came up with the idea.
 Smart card that drives a car
G Krishna Kumar
Class 12, Govt Boys Higher Sec School, Thiruvarur, Tamil Nadu
Krishna suggests using a smart card that contains electronically all the documentation required to drive a vehicle and to start a vehicle this card has to be inserted into electronic identifier, and it also makes easy to trace missing cars.
This idea struck him during discussions at school on traffic regulations.
He feels, “Many people forget the license at home. So there should be some system to make it mandatory that without license, the vehicle will not start.”
 Headphones with sensors to detect external soundsLakshya Kaura, Naman Jain, Manav Mitra, Utkarsh Hora, Amrit Dang and Sehaj Kataria
Class 8, Vasant Valley School, New Delhi

Lakshya Kaura loved to listen music on his head phones and also wanted to take heed to road safety. He shared his thought with his friends and all six of them put their heads together to come up with an innovative solution: headphones fitted with sensors to pick up external sounds.
So, if a vehicle honks within 10 metres, the headphones automatically stop playing and sound an alert.
 Preventing mobile usage while driving and unique doorbell to identify visitors
Rajashree Choudhury
Class 5, Little Flower School, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand
A device with a place for inserting a mobile is fixed on the car dashboard or handle of a two-wheeler. The vehicle moves forward only if the mobile is inserted into this device.
Her next idea is to have personalized doorbell ringtones so you know who is at the door beforehand. The doorbell has unique codes assigned to different individuals. So when a guest presses their code, the doorbell rings with a specific sound.
 Wind-operated ceiling fan
Md. Usman Hanif Patel
Class 2, Tapti Public School, Jalgaon, Maharashtra.
Usman came up with novel and simple idea of ceiling fan in the house is mechanically powered by a wind-mill on the roof.
Once travelling towards Nandurbar, looking out the window of a moving train, 6-year-old Usman saw some windmills zipping by. His father later explained him that the wind moves blades of windmill which in turn moves the device placed beneath it.
And one day, staring at the ceiling fan during a power cut, an idea of using windmill on roof to mechanically power the fan struck him.
 Hand pumps that rise automatically in flood affected areas
Kripesh Swain and Kumar Biswajeet
Class 8, DAV Public School, Bhubaneshwar, Odisha
Kripesh and Biswajeet were very bothered that during monsoon flood, the hand pumps which provide clean water gets buried into the flood water which gush into it hence rendering the once fresh water unsuitable for drinking. To prevent this problem from recurring, they designed a hand pump such that it can go up with the rising water level, so that it remains usable.
“We couldn’t tolerate the extent of suffering in different parts of Odisha. Everybody deserves pure water,” they said.
#8 Multi-purpose tent and load-lifting device
Rishab Gupta, Jammu
Class 10, DPS, Jammu, Jammu & Kashmir
Rishab was truck with the idea of using a tent as a raft while mountaineering camp in Mussoorie.
His tent is creatively planned to be usable during both summer and winter with portable solar panels to provide light after sunset.
The base is proposed to be made of rubberized nylon that can be inflated and the border along the base can be blown up to turn it into a raft.
His next idea is a portable shifter to easily move heavy things by attaching a set of wheels to slide them from point to point.
 User-friendly pedal rickshaw
Mansi Priya
Class 11, DAV Kapil Dev, Ranchi, Jharkhand
Watching her grandmother struggle to get down from a pedal rickshaw, Mansi came up with the idea of small folding stair in the rickshaw, which will help old people to climb a rickshaw with a lot more ease.
 Modified cycle rickshaw
Arnab Chakraborty
Class 12, Future Foundation School, Kolkata, West Bengal
Arnab, who recently moved to Kolkata, was surprised seeing a large number of cyclerickshaws plying on the city roads, and some were thin and frail, moved by their plight he came up with the idea. Its about modified cycle rickshaw with extra pedals for passengers who may wish to share the burden and co-pedal the rickshaw.
 Preventing driving without a license/valid documents
In the wake of increased rate of accidents caused by those without licenses, or without proper training; these young minds have conceived novel ideas to prevent this.
Varsha Kumari
Class 10, Indra Prasad Singh Gangstahliya Balika Gyanpith
Patna, Bihar
Varsha’s innovation is about swiping the driving license, like on a credit card machine. The vehicle starts only if a pre-authorized license is swiped. This also protects the car against theft.
The idea came to her when a friend’s car was stolen and never found.
Durgesh Kumar
Class 10, DAV HFC Barauni
Begusarai, Bihar
Durgesh’s innovation has a mini scanner fixed on the steering wheel, only up on the drivers’ license matches with the authentic license stored in the scanner’s database, the steering wheel gets unlocked. A solution to tackle Illegal drivers

Jyoti Dhillon
Class 10, Shishu Shala School, Rewari, Haryana
Jyoti thinks of an automatic sensor inside the vehicle that prevents driving without a valid license.
Ranjan, Class 8 and Shiv Kumar, Class 6
Gandhi Madhya Vidyalaya, Patna, Bihar
Ravi and Shiv being troubled by daily cases of neighborhood vehicles thefts and accidents caused by people without valid licenses came up with an idea where there’s an electronic slot near the ignition which can identify the validity of the license upon inserting it. And only if the card is valid the engine starts.
 Movable road dividers
Sidharth Pal
Class 11, Sai Grace Academy
Dehradun, Uttarakhand
Most of times the traffic on either side of the road divider varies during different times of the day, particularly during peak hours.
Sidharth, while stuck in a traffic congestion had come up with the idea of movable road dividers to ease the traffic on the congested road.
 Solution for traffic congestion
S Charishma
Class 8, Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
Being stuck in the traffic can be a very annoying situation. Charishma noticed patterns in movements of vehicles during such traffic jams.
One side of the road has more traffic in the morning, which shifts to the other side in the evening. So she proposed a simple, but very creative solution, the movable deviders.
Depending upon the incoming traffic from a particular direction, the dividers can be shifted to increase lane size.
Artificial assistance for blind people
B Survesh
Class 10, The Hindu Colony Chellammal Vidyalaya SSS, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Survesh with his blind granduncle and grandaunt has seen first-hand problems faced by the blind.
So, he thought of creating sunglasses that could help them recognize people and objects independently. The sunglass has an inbuilt camera to record the image and the name of a person met for the first time.
Cushioned-helmets for labourers
G Jeevan Sidharth
Class 9, Shrishti Vidyashram, Vellore, Tamil Nadu
“While going to school, I often observed construction workers carrying bricks and cement on their head. I wanted something that would protect the head, reduce pressure and help to balance load. Just like how a helmet gives safety, while riding, why can’t a helmet protect these workers?”
He thus went on to design a helmet to provide safety to workers at construction sites. It is fitted inside with a cushion that gives protection while the outer surface has a slight inward curve for easy balancing.
 Device to monitor mental stress in students and others
Himanshu Jiteshbhai Parmar
Class 10, Pandit Nehru Vidya Vihar, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
“I remember reading a news paper story about students who committed suicide because of failure in their class 10 board exams,” he shares.
This made him to think of a system to measure tension/mental stress. It would tell the degree of stress and if found high, students can unwind before going back to their studies.
Ankita Arora
Class 10, Police DAV Public School, Jalandhar, Punjab
Ankita was distressed to see her mother struggling with acute back pain that confined her to bed for over a year. Her mother’s agony gave her the idea of creating a device for detecting and monitoring levels of mental stress in an individual.
 
 
 
 Mobile to mobile charging
Ravi Duhan, Sanjay Raghav and Manoj Kumar
Class 9, SD SSS, Rewari, Haryana
The group of three friends had files shared between mobiles throughBluetooth and extending this further they thought why not a mobile can be used to charge another mobile?
Then they came up with possibility of doing it in two ways — wired or wireless way of charge transfer from one mobile to another.
Retractable toilet pot with cleaning system
Shweta Verma
Class 9, Gyan Sthali Public School, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh
Retractable toilet fitted with sensors — the pot can be pulled inside the wall after use and taken out when needed.
Shweta believes, “This will help people who have small homes with little space. It can also be used in other places where space is a constraint.”
 Modified painting brush
Ektapreet Kaur
Class 9, Police DAV School, Jalandhar, Punjab
“What a waste of money and how tiring to keep alternating from one brush to the other!” she thought.
This inspired her to think of a single paintbrush, which could accommodate varying sizes, just like a pen can have refills of many colours.

 Charging mobile while talking
Gautam Kumar
Class 7, Rajkiya Madhya Vidyalaya, Patna, Bihar
Gautam living in an area with frequent power cuts wondered why our voice, a sound energy, cannot be used to charge the mobile.
 Machine to suggest what to eat and How to Cook It
Sharvay Harish Tiwari
Class 5, Shri Shri Ravishankar School, Pune, Maharashtra
Standing indecisive in the kitchen? Sharvay’s idea does away with these problems. In his machine, you simply select a particular vegetable, and the monitor displays a list of different ways it can be cooked along with the ingredients required and their quantity.
Device to relocate clouds
Shweta Sharma
Class 10, Police DAV School, Jalandhar, Punjab
The Poor rainfall in Punjab gave Shweta the first-hand experience of the problems caused by water shortage. And she came across news of floods in Assam. The two situations got amalgamated and an idea struck her, that if the clouds over Assam could somehow be sent to Punjab, it would be a ‘win-win situation’ for both states.
She was first hesitant to share this idea as she thought that it might be laughed upon. But her mother’s story of the great musician Tansen whose raag Megh Malhar was said to have the power to bring down rain encouraged her to send her idea reasoning that “if a sweet melodious voice can bring rain, then this is also possible, maybe not today, but tomorrow.”
 Glove with in-built mobile phone
Rohan Jolly
Class 7, Angel School, Delhi
Rohan’s grandparents live in Kashmir and he visits them during vacations, the cold weather made gloves indispensable, but Rohan found it difficult to hold the phone while wearing gloves.”The mobile sometimes get covered with snow and water entered inside, damaging it,” he explains.

He thought of solving these problems by fixing the phone within the gloves, so you can talk comfortably while remaining warm.
Shirt that wakes you up
Jatin Kumar Bhoi
Class 9, KK High School, Sundergarh, Odisha
Jatin found it difficult to remain awake while studying, and it landed him in problems especially during exams.
He came up with the idea of a special shirt with a mechanism for making sure that the person wearing it remains awake and also it is to have buttons that can tell time.
When asked about this idea, he replied, “I don’t know right now but will think of something once I grow up.”

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