IIT Bombay extends deadline for e-Yantra Innovation Challenge to Sept 30th

The e-Yantra project is funded by the Ministry of Education, Government of India, and hosted at the CSE Department of IIT Bombay.

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay has extended the registration deadline for the e-Yantra Innovation Challenge (eYIC 2022-23) to 30 September, 2022. This year’s challenge is aimed at seeking solutions for inclusive urban infrastructure. Winning teams who successfully pitch will receive seed funding from a prize pool of Rs. 1 Crore.

The e-Yantra project is funded by the Ministry of Education, Government of India, and hosted at the CSE department of IIT Bombay. This year’s themes are Sustainable and Advanced Technologies for Helping Urban Inclusivity and Agriculture. Inclusivity here caters to Persons with Disabilities (PWD), who constitute almost 2.2% of our population (30M people), but have to lag behind due to less inclusive urban spaces.

e-Yantra is a Robotics outreach program that caters to young engineers in solving problems using technology. It uses a Project-Based Learning (PBL) approach that compliments traditional learning by providing a practical and hands-on learning experience. Expert guides at e-Yantra hone the ability of young participants to solve real-world problems.

e-Yantra Innovation Challenge (eYIC) is a unique annual competition that trains student teams in crucial skills through MOOCs before getting them to solve real-world problems and build startups. It was started in 2014 and this year marks the 9th year of the e-Yantra Innovation Challenge. For the past few years, on average, 2,000 students have participated in e-Yantra’s Innovation Challenge.

The e-Yantra Innovation Challenge gives participants a platform to launch their own startups with incubation support from the IIT Bombay Incubator SINE. It has already nurtured startups such as Nex Robotics, Nibrus Technologies (Mine Surveying Drones), Drona Automation (Sewer Cleaning robots), and Katomaran (Mobile robots), to name a few.

Winning teams who successfully pitch will receive seed funding from a prize pool of Rs. 1 Cr. There are also 25 lakhs worth of prizes to be won. Prof. Kavi Arya, the Principal Investigator of e-Yantra, believes in changing the outlook of students from “knowledge consumers” to “knowledge creators.” The goal of the Challenge is to create “student innovators for local disruption.”

e-Yantra strives to achieve the goals set by the National Education Policy through its engagement with three key stakeholders – Colleges, Teachers, and Students. e-Yantra initiatives complement the engineering education system to render students more employable and oriented toward innovation and entrepreneurship.

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