PUNE: Samsung’s Gen Z education and innovation competition, Solve for Tomorrow, witnessed record-breaking participation by young students from across India, and a team from Maharashtra – Able Innovation – has made it to the Top 10 teams in the inaugural edition of the competition.
Pratik Raghuwanshi and Aryan Thosariwal from team Able Innovation have developed a smart aid solution for deaf, mute, and blind individuals. Their innovation, Able Glasses, can help these individuals communicate better with others around them.
At the end of the Top 10 round, three national winners stand a chance to get mega support of up to INR 1 crore and mentoring support for six months to take their ideas to the next level under the expert guidance of IIT Delhi.
The program which encourages youngsters to submit their ideas under 4 themes – Education, Environment, Healthcare, and Agriculture, got over 18,000 registrations from youth across different regions of India.
The prototype developed by Team Able Innovation will utilize patented Bone Conduction Transducer technology, which will enable the deaf to hear the sound better. The glasses are equipped with a built-in camera sensor and speaker that would speak for the deaf and mute. The image processing in the glasses is combined with AI and Machine Learning, which will help the blind to visualize their surroundings better.
Pratik and Aryan, along with others in the top 10 teams, are working with mentors from Samsung and IIT Delhi to fine-tune their ideas and build a prototype that they will showcase at the final pitch event. They also visited Samsung India’s headquarters in Gurugram and its R&D centers in Bengaluru and Noida where they got an opportunity to interact with young Samsung employees and researchers. The top 10 teams also experienced the Samsung product ecosystem at the iconic Samsung Opera House in Bengaluru.
These 10 teams will feature in a TV series as well, which will be produced by the Network18 Group and will be telecasted on their national channels and OTT platform Voot through October and November.
The top 10 teams will be given Samsung hampers, which will include exciting Samsung products. The top three winning teams will get a total of INR 1 crore in grants. In addition, winning teams will also get an 85-inch Samsung Flip interactive digital board each for their respective schools and colleges.
With the grant, winners will get the opportunity to work with mentors from IIT Delhi for 6 months and get access to an incubation center at the IIT Delhi campus. During these 6 months, they will work on their ideas and take them to the stage where they can seek consumer validation for their prototypes.
