NIT Karnataka organises mentorship programme for school students

NIT-K conducted the mentorship programme in association with the National Innovation Foundation, an autonomous body under the Union Department of Science and Technology.

The National Institute of Technology – Karnataka (NIT-K), Surathkal on May 24, 2022, organised a mentorship programme for State-level students, from Classes 6 to 10. The mentorship programme was organized for students who qualified to participate in a national-level exhibition and project competition to be held under the Union government’s Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) scheme.

Competition aims at promoting critical thinking among students in the age group of 10 years to 15 years

According to the institute, a total of 63 students from the state qualified to participate in the competition. These students were guided on converting their innovative ideas into prototypes. NIT-K conducted the mentorship programme in association with the National Innovation Foundation, an autonomous body under the Union Department of Science and Technology, an NIT-K release informed.                                                                         

Under this competition, the institute aims at promoting critical thinking among students in the age group of 10 years to 15 years to become innovators. The competition gave students a platform to interact with NIT-K faculty and domain experts from different fields of agriculture, mechanical engineering, sensors and systems, household mechanics.

The press release informed that these students presented diverse innovative ideas like a pendulum-based water pump, electricity-less refrigerator, smart postal boxes, contactless sewage cleaning, which may be helpful for works that are labour intensive or tedious in nature.

The students got the opportunity to interact with various faculty members such as KV Rao, Director, Regional Science Centre, Pilikula, Udayakumar R Yarragatti, director, in-charge, NIT-K, Arun Isloor, a professor of Chemistry at NIT-K and also the programme coordinator.

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