IIT Delhi summer boot camp witnesses promising prototypes by school students

On this occasion, IIT Delhi also felicitated the boot camp students for their exceptional positivity, hard work, dedication and performance. 

Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi) witnessed the participation of Twenty-five students of Classes 11 and 12 successfully completing its Do-It-Yourself (DIY) summer boot camp ‘Change.Makers’. The students showcased the prototypes built by them on Friday.

Participants mentored by IIT Delhi Faculty & Students

During the summer camp, IIT Delhi faculty and students mentored the participants and used state-of-the-art facilities available at the Makerspace (a DIY Central Research Facility at IIT Delhi) to convert their impactful ideas to reality. Professor Jay Dhariwal, faculty at IIT Delhi’s Department of Design, was the coordinator for the Change.Makers boot camp.  

On this occasion, IIT Delhi also felicitated the boot camp students for their exceptional positivity, hard work, dedication and performance. 

The summer boot camp, an initiative by the Institute’s Academic Outreach and New Initiatives office, started with the students forming into teams and choosing the right problems to work on in the first week. They learned project-relevant fabrication skills in the second week at Makerspace.

The students built and refined the functional prototypes of their electro-mechanical projects under the mentorship of the Institute faculty and students in the third and the fourth weeks.

The nine student team projects were about rehabilitation exercise monitoring, automating reuse of R.O. filtered water, aeroponics, trekker safety, quadruped terrain mapping robot, avoiding drowsiness in drivers, stretcher convertible seat in vehicles, real-time text to braille translator and a rolling robot, according to the official statement.

Tours to research labs, interaction with leading researchers

During the boot camp, the students were also given tours of different research labs in the institute where they got to interact with leading researchers in the sciences and technology disciplines.

Speaking about the summer boot camp, Professor Rangan Banerjee, Director, IIT Delhi said, “It was fascinating to see the enthusiasm, ideas and initiative of the young school students. We hope to enthuse school children to learn by doing and solve societal problems.”  

Kishlay Kisu, a school student who was part of the boot camp, said, "I am very grateful to be here. It opened so many opportunities for me. Now, the space for exploring my opportunities has become limitless! I want to thank everyone for this bootcamp. Here, I learnt many new things, more than my curriculum could ever provide! Thank you."

Mrinalini Singh, another school student, said, “My experience at IIT Delhi DIY Bootcamp was life changing. Before the boot camp, I had no idea about power tools, electronics, or how to create CAD models. But our faculty mentors and project scientists taught us everything and we learned to apply the theoretical knowledge to make tech that will help the mankind to step towards a sustainable future.”

IIT Delhi commenced the month-long boot camp on May 23, 2022, aiming at addressing some high-impact societal problems.

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