Young Social Innovators of India

Bangalore: Kids today equipped with best resources, access to quality tutoring and smart outreach to technology are thinking much ahead in time. IGNITE a national competition to harness the creative and innovative spirit of school children organized by the National Innovation Foundation felicitated 25 young guns who proved their power to think, innovate, recreate and help build a better India.

In an attempt to revamp the society they live in, the social innovators listed below have brilliant ideas. Ideas which will trigger more ideas and power social innovation.

1.Rice grain separating/cleaning machine
  Mohd. Sajid Ansari
  Rice grain sorting/cleaning machine
  Class 7,Jharkhand
A machine to separates broken rice grains and other physical impurities from unbroken rice grains is what Sajid thought when he conceptualized this idea while watching his mother struggle clean rice.

2.Adjustable stroke tip pen for poster writing
  Rimjhim Baruah
  Class 8, Assam
  A poster pen with adjustable stroke nib that can be used to write with uniform thickness and style of our own. This pen is adaptable to all kinds of thickness.

3.Modified Walker with Adjustable Legs
 Shalini Kumari
 Class 8, Bihar
Aged grandparents face difficulty while using crutches to walk and climb up the stairs. Shalini took this as an inspiration to build modified Walker with adjustable legs.