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ABOUT Jharkhand
School Innovation
Challenge (JH-SIC)
The NVCTI, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad takes pleasure in announcing
Jharkhand School Innovation Challenge-2021 (JH-SIC 2021) to
inculcate an innovation culture and provide a competitive platform
to the budding innovators of Jharkhand to showcase their imagina-
tion and creativity to identify challenges in their communities and
to develop innovative solutions to address them.
OBJECTIVES:
1). To cultivate young fertile brains as the innovators and entrepre-
neurs of the future by promoting informal learning, focusing on
indigenous technological advancements to contribute positively to
the economy, the environment, and society.
2). To provide an opportunity for school children of all the 24
districts of Jharkhand state to identify the problems related to
societal importance and offer a viable solution to uplift their
immediate community’s living standard.
3). To provide a platform for budding innovators to demons-
trate their creativity and inventiveness at solving this problem.
4). To provide an interface among young creators,
academic experts, entrepreneurs, and industry.
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ABOUT NVCTI
With an objective to encourage, inspire and nurture young
creators, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad has established Naresh Vashisht
Centre for Tinkering and Innovation (NVCTI) with the generous
financial support of our distinguished alumnus of the 1967
batch of Petroleum Engineering, Shri Naresh Vashisht. In an
endeavor to provide an enabling physical environment for
young creators to transform ideas into product leading to
successful entrepreneurship, the centre is equipped with state
of the art “Tinkering and Innovation Laboratory” consisting of a
mechanical & rapid prototyping unit; Gaming and Animation
Design Unit; Electronic circuit and IOT unit; Battery-Pouch Cell
Assembly unit and Robotics and Automation Unit. The centre
intends to build a positive innovation ecosystem to generate
creative solutions to local and global societal importance
problems.
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THEME of the
JH-SIC
Student teams from schools of Jharkhand are invited to
identify problems and to submit innovative, novel, viable and
verifiable solutions with a possibility to be commercialized,
related to the broad idea of the themes as mentioned below:
1). Energy harnessing
2). Water and Sanitation
3). Environment
4). Education
5). Health & Well-being
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ELIGIBILITY
School students of classes 8-12 from Jharkhand based
schools are eligible to participate in the JH-SIC.
GENERAL RULES
1. All entries will be made either by the school or by the team
leader of a participating team with the proper approval of the
school. The DISE code is mandatory for the online submission
of entries.
2. Each school can submit a maximum of two ideas (one idea
per team).
3. There can be a maximum of 4 members in a team.
4. Entries must be submitted within the prescribed time-frame.
Late entries will not be accepted.
5. Entry Fee: Per team Rs. 100 to be paid through online mode.