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Wisestep winner of Hyd start-up challenge

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Selection was done through a process of presentations by reps of the start-up companies before audience and jury.

Wisestep, a social media enabled hiring and job referral platform, was announced the winner of the Microsoft BizSpart India Startup Challenge 2013 city final held at Indian School of Business  in Hyderabad on Saturday.

MilkorWater, an aggregater of stock analysis  with a an objective to provide unbiased insights to small investors, and the Tekwroksinfo Solutions Private Limited , a media solutions provider, were selected as the first and the second runners-up, according to a press release issued by the company.

The winner of this round will participate in the national finals to be held later in Bangalore.

The selection was done through a process of presentations by the representatives of the start-up companies before the audience and the jury. About 10 start-ups were given a chance to compete for the finals.

The idea of behind the BizSpark is to fast-track the success of young start-ups  with software, support and visibility. It had so far helped more than 2,725 Indian start-ups by providing basic support, including technical training among other things, according to the company.

“The BizSpark India start-up challenge has continued to grow over the past three years to support fresh ideas and provide world-class technological support, enabling start-ups to have a better chance of business success,”Rajinish Menon, director-Independent Software Vendor & Cloud Strategy, of Microsoft Corporation India Limited said in a statement.

source:  http://www.business-standard.com / Business Standard / Home> Companies> News / by BS Reporter / Hyderabad – May 25th, 2013

US institutions imparting training to Indian students: M Pallam Raju

Education, World Opinion

Rajahmundry  (AP):

Some prominent US educational institutions are imparting industrial training to students in India under the Centre’s Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP), human resource development minister M Pallam Raju on Friday said.

Under the initiative, training is provided to students who have passed polytechnic and engineering courses, based on their understanding of the subject and as per the needs of industry.

The first phase of the World Bank-sponsored TEQIP, launched in 2003 and completed in 2009, has been implemented with the aim of improving quality of technical education in the country.

On the future course, Raju said, “Eight educational projects have been identified under the Manmohan Singh-Barack Obama Global Learning Initiative programme and another eight projects will be identified by June.”

The minister said that necessary steps were being taken for setting up triple-IT and Kendriya Vidyalayas in East Godavari district of the state.

Raju said that irrespective of many ups and downs on economic front, the country is maintaining the growth rate at 6 per cent under Congress-led UPA government.

He announced without elaborating that as many as 300 model schools will come up across 3,500 educationally backward blocks in the country.

source: http://www.articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> Education / by PTI / May 25th, 2013

12 IIIT girls for NASA space settlement contest

Education, Science & Technology, World Opinion

 

Students of Nuzvid IIT who were selected for NASA International Space Development Conference (ISDC), to be held at USA, from May 23. / Photo. Ch. Vijaya Bhaskar / The Hindu
Students of Nuzvid IIT who were selected for NASA International Space Development Conference (ISDC), to be held at USA, from May 23. / Photo. Ch. Vijaya Bhaskar / The Hindu

They will present their projects at the 32 Annual International Space Development Conference in the US

Girl students of Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies (RGUKT) have outshone boys by bagging 12 of the 13 slots for making it to the NASA Space Settlement Contest. They will be leaving for the U.S. via Chennai on Monday. Girls performed better than boys in designing projects on space settlement for humans.

The selected students will present their projects at the 32 Annual International Space Development Conference (ISDC), to be held at San Diego, in the US, from May 23 to 27.

Of the 38 students selected for the NASA Ames Space Settlement Design Contest-2013, 29 were girls from International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Nuzvid, but only 12 of them will make it to the US. Students of Pre-University and first year Engineering of the budding university have designed 13 projects on the title ‘Creating alternative living for mankind on Space’, said IIIT Director Ibrahim Khan.

“We were inspired by Indian astronauts Kalpana Chawla and Sunitha Williams. Humans are creating miracles in the history of space, missile and robotics technologies. But, the number of women astronauts in India and other countries is very small. We want to become scientists in space and robotics technologies,” say the budding engineers preparing for their foreign trip.

Some of the missions selected for ISDC are Amaranthos, Garuda, Atman, Titan, Magma, Anthena, Divouces, and Sudarshan Chakra. The students in their projects focussed on how to provide luxurious life for man with food, housing, employment, solar energy, pollution-free environment and other facilities on moon with latest technologies, for the next two decades.

“Our project ‘Atman’ indicates the successful journey of man to the soul of new space era. We explained how to produce power by using solar wind through electrical sail technology, which was developed by the US in January 2013,” said V. Divya Sri, who is one of the three designers of the mission.

“The mission ‘Titan’ is aimed at designing plans on how to tap natural resources from moon and other planets and lead a comfortable life on space. In our project, robots will play a key role by utilising the latest technologies,” said M. Hemalatha, who prepared ‘Titan’, along with two other girls H. Divya and S. Padmasri.

source: http://www. thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> National> Andhra Pradesh / by Rajulapudi Srinivas / Nuzvid (Krishna Dist.) – May 20th, 2013

Students wow railway authorities with their designs on safety

Arts, Culture & Entertainment, Education, Science & Technology
Teams interact with drivers and station masters before preparing the projects / The Hindu
Teams interact with drivers and station masters before preparing the projects / The Hindu

About 100 students designed projects on safety in railways including automatic coach guidance, signal control system and submitted a thesis to the South Central Railway (SCR) authorities.

The engineering students who designed the circuits and software programmes displayed them before the Vijayawada Division Railway officials at Railway Auditorium on Friday. The projects would be useful both for the railways and passengers, said the students.

Vijayawada Additional Divisional Railway Manager S. Subba Rao, SCR Women’s Welfare Organisation president Priti Awasthi and heads of various departments visited the software products exhibition. Ms. Awasthi praised the budding engineers for designing the projects with innovative ideas.

Alerts for driver

Four students of Electronics and Communication Engineering of Vignan University – Vamshi Krishna, Aravind, Siddhartha and Vara Prasad – prepared a circuit on Signal Control System, which would prevent accidents and provide safety for the passengers.

“In Signal Control System, we placed a monitoring device on the signal pole and receiver in the engine. The train drivers can know the signal position (from each pole) through the receiver at some distance. Signal Control System will be useful particularly during winter seasons when there is heavy fog,” said Mr. Vamshi Krishna.

If the train crosses the red signal, the system would automatically slow down the train and prevent any possible mishap. The device was prepared after discussing the problem with loco drivers, said Mr. Siddhartha.

The GPS on Fire Detecting System would alert the railway authorities, if there was any fire in the coaches. Likewise, the Rail Tracking System, designed by four students – T. Bhavya, D. Kavya, Ch. Kranthi and K. Srujana — of K.L. University, can alert the station master or superintendent of the next station through satellite system on the position of the tracks, location of train and at what time it was expected to arrive at the station. “We travelled in the train from Vijayawada to Visakhapatnam and studied on implementation of Rail Tracking System, which can help reduce manpower and give accurate position of the train on tracks”, Ms. Srujana told The Hindu. Students also designed projects on digital caution order, power line failure, wireless energy meter, vigilance control device, and a digital eye for coach guidance automation.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities> Vijayawada / by Rajulauadi Srinivas / May 18th, 2013

Rajahmundry bags State CEEP first, second ranks

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For the first time in the history of Rajahmundry, two students got State first and second ranks in Common Entrance Examination for Polytechnic (CEEP).

S.S.S. Harsha from Tirumala Proactive School in Katheru in Rajahmundry rural mandal has bagged State first rank in the CEEP for which results were declared on Friday. G. Kirnanmayi from the same school got State second rank. The other significant rankers from the school are K. Bhargav Reddy State 5, Ch.V. Surya Krishna and P. Gopal 8 ranks. Nunna Tirumal Rao, Director, Tirumala educational Institutions informed that their students have got 17 State ranks out of 100.

He congratulated the students, teachers and staff for achieving great results.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> National> Andhra Pradesh / by Staff Reporter / Rajahmundry – May 18th, 2013

Science talent prizes presented to children

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Union minister of state for communications Killi Kruparani presenting the national level science talent search annual award to students in Hyderabad on Sunday | Express Photo
Union minister of state for communications Killi Kruparani presenting the national level science talent search annual award to students in Hyderabad on Sunday | Express Photo

K.Ravi Sri Teja, a Class VI student of St Ann’s English Medium School at Tadepalli, has won the first prize in the National Level Science Talent Search Examination (NSTSE) 2013.

Union minister of state for communication and information technology Killi Kruparani presented the prizes at a function held at Ravindra Bharati here on Sunday. Around 274 school students, who qualified in NSTSE, Unified Cyber Olympiad (UCO) and the State Level Talent Search Examination (SLSTSE), turned up to collect prizes and certificates.

“The Union government has declared 2010-2020 as the Decade of Innovations. Most of the innovations in the modern world have been carried out by those who excel in mathematics and sciences. There is a need for revolutionary changes in various fields,” the minister said.

Around 6 lakh students of Classes 2 to 12 participate in the talent search examinations every year. “Around 5,000 schools were represented at the examination across the country. We also conduct examinations abroad in Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Russia, Oman and some others,” said Srinivas Kallur, director of Unified Council.

Telugu writer Yandamuri Veerendranath and guidance counsellor BV Pattabhiram also spoke.

source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> Cities> Hyderabad / by Express News Service – Hyderabad / May 06th, 2013

Ongole students win national-level contest

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Proud moment:Budding scientists from Gowtham Model School along with school correspodent M.Kondiah and Principal M. Padmaja at Ongole on Wednesday. —Photo: Kommuri Srinivas / The Hindu
Proud moment:Budding scientists from Gowtham Model School along with school correspodent M.Kondiah and Principal M. Padmaja at Ongole on Wednesday. —Photo: Kommuri Srinivas / The Hindu

 They win trophy, tablet PC and trip to Singapore

The Gowtham Model School (GMS) here has won the national-level Fevicol Science project challenge 2013 held in Mumbai.

Three sixth class students from GMS did Prakasam district and the State proud by projecting innovative water conservation methods during the three-day contest that concluded on April 29,

School correspondent M.Kondaiah told reporters here on Wednesday. ”It is a great achievement by Ongole lads as 1.85 lakh students from 737 schools have taken part in the contest,” he added.

Scientists from the Navi Mumbai Science Foundation acted as judges and spotted the budding scientists in GMS students – M. Guna Snehith, P. Sasi Preetham, and Ch. Karthik, GMS Principal M.Padmaja said.

The students were bubbling with enthusiasm having won a trophy, tablet PC and a foreign trip to Singapore worth Rs. 5 lakh from the Pidilite Industries, makers of Fevicol.

The students’ guide Valli Devasena with a sense of fulfilment said the students were given the topic on the first day. They were allowed to do research on different water conservation techniques and develop working models on the second day. The judges put a barrage of questions to the scientists in the making and adjudged the GMS team as the winners, she added.

The GMS students had made it to the finals by developing a project ‘sustainable village for a population of 10,000’in the junior-level category drawing inspiration from former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam who had advocated Provision of Urban facilities in Rural Areas (PURA) to find a permanent solution to migration to urban areas and turn villages into engine of growth.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> National> Andhra Pradesh / by Staff Reporter / Ongole, May 02nd, 2013

Ageing Germany woos Indian students, workers

Education, Uncategorized, World Opinion

Hyderabad (IANS):

With its labour force likely to decline by 6.5 million people by 2025 because of its ageing population, Germany is looking to attract young students and skilled workforce from India.

German Ambassador to India Michael Steiner Friday said India and Germany can complement each other by exploiting their demographic advantages.

“In 2025, we will have minus 6.3 million workforce, not just engineers and doctors but also skilled workers because we are older society than, for example, India,” he said while launching ‘Excellence on Tour 2013’, a road-show by the German House for Research and Innovation (DWIH), New Delhi to showcase education opportunities for Indian students in Germany.

“India is a young society with millions and millions of students and young people who need to be trained and educated and who need jobs. The average age of Indian population is 25 years while in Germany, the average age is 35 years,” he said.

The ambassador pointed out that Germany with top universities and institutions for vocational training is well equipped to meet the requirements of Indian students. “India has what Germany needs and Germany has what India needs,” he said.

Addressing a huge gathering of students at Muffakham Jah College of Engineering and Technology, Steiner said when Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh recently visited Germany, there was an understanding between the two countries that they should exploit the demographic advantages they have.

The ambassador disagreed that it is brain drain. “This is not brain drain. It is about brain circulation. It is about helping to build the brain,” he said.

To a question by a student whether in the event of a recession, Germany would look after the interests of its own people, the ambassador said the demand was huge in German economy.

“The incline in growth we have is on a very high level. Even if there is relative recession, even if we have a growth rate of two percent less, this would not change the fundamental picture.”

Explaining how Germany transformed its economy through structural reforms, he said it had the strength to shoulder the crisis in Europe and show solidarity with other countries.

He was confident that Europe would get out of the crisis in a year or two and emerge as a strong partner of India. He also predicted that India would end as one of the top economies of the world.

Steiner said what Europe was witnessing was not a Euro crisis but a debt crisis. He said the Euro zone countries took the revolutionary step of introducing common currency 12 years ago but they committed a mistake by not harmonizing their fiscal and economic policies.

“If you have a common currency you must have communal fiscal and economic policy. As we didn’t do that we had to pay the price and we landed up in the debt crisis.”

The eight-day road show is the first since the launch of DWIH in Delhi late last year.

DWIH is a one-stop shop for Indians who want to know about possibilities in education, science and research in Germany. It represents all major German organizations in areas of education, science, technology and innovation.

source: http://www.daijiworld.com / Daiji World / Home> World / by IANS / Hyderabad, April 26th, 2013

Hyderabadi kid at Intel Science Fair

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Prithvi’s project was one of the three projects selected out of 289 entries for representing Singapore at The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, which is the world’s largest international pre-college science competition.
Prithvi’s project was one of the three projects selected out of 289 entries for representing Singapore at The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, which is the world’s largest international pre-college science competition.

An alumnus of Hyderabad Public School(HPS), Begumpet, G Prithvi, 17 will be representing Singapore in The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, which will be held in Phoenix, Arizona, USA from May 12 to 17.

Prithvi’s project was one of the three projects selected out of 289 entries for representing Singapore at the fair, which is the world’s largest international pre-college science competition. The fair provides an annual forum for more than 1,500 high school students from about 70 countries, regions, and territories to showcase their independent research as they compete for over $3 million annually. The Intel ISEF is the premier global science competition for students in grades 9-12.

Talking of his achievement, Prithvi says, “The recognition is the result of hours of my work, and it is the first success towards fulfilling my ambition to be scientist.”

Prithvi now lived in Singapore with his parents and is currently class 12 at St. Andrews Junior College, Singapore. His ambition is to become a scientist and do research in Particle Physics.

Prithvi was working on research into high performance anodes for Lithium ion batteries using Cobalt compounds obtained by bulk preparation methods at National University of Singapore, and the project was selected for participation in the Singapore Science and Technology fair held recently.

source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> Cities> Hyderabad / by Express Features – Hyderabad / April 09th, 2013

‘India undergoing 5 revolutions now’

Business & Economy, Education

Hyderabad :

Hinting that India was a tough country in which to do business, eminent historian RamachandraGuha said if he were an entrepreneur, he would have liked to have been born in a country like Singapore or Sweden.

Addressing graduates of the Indian School of Business on its 12th Graduation Day on Sunday, Guha referred to his book , ‘Makers of Modern India’ and said India was undergoing five dramatic revolutions ‘simultaneously’. “India is experiencing a national revolution as from being a colonised colony, the country is emerging as an independent nation. Second is the democratic revolution, as in our country we still hold general elections and not the ‘election of generals’ that takes place in neighbouring countries,” he said. “We are also going through an industrial revolution as the country is transforming from an agrarian economy to an industrial one. There is an urban revolution as people are migrating to cities in massive numbers. Finally, there is a social revolution, where India is coping up with issues of hierarchy and patriarchy,” he added. The historian urged the ISB grads to try and experience the democratic and social revolutions closely as by virtue of being MBAs, they would naturally be part of the other transformations.

Addressing the ISB pass-outs, Kishore Mahbubani, dean and professor in the Practice of Public Policy,  Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore said: “MBAs are one the major reasons due to which there are lesser number of wars in this world today as MBAs are taught to carve out a ‘win-win’ strategy while a war is always a ‘lose-lose’ strategy.” “This generation has the least prospect of dying in a war. The other good news is that countries will be able to halve global poverty by 2015 and the middle class is expanding rapidly and in Asia alone, the middle class base will expand to 1.75 billion people in 2020 from the current 500 million,” he said. On problems, he said the biggest worry was that the 193 countries in the world were no longer isolated entities and each and every action of a single country could create ripples in other nations.

ISB’s 12th Graduation Day saw 565 students of the post graduate programme class of 2013 and 59 students of the PGP-MAX class of 2012 pass out.

Referring to world trends, Mahbubani said there were ‘good news, problems and solutions’ in the present day world.

According to him, there was certain ‘good news’ for young people. “This generation has the least prospect of dying in a war. The other good news is that countries will be able to halve global poverty by 2015 and the middle class is expanding rapidly and in Asia alone, the middle class base will expand to 1.75 billion people in 2020 from the current 500 million,” he said.On problems, he said the biggest worry was that the 193 countries in the world were no longer isolated entities and each and every action of a single country could create ripples in other nations. According to him, the solution was in the strengthening the world bodies such as United Nations  and World Health Organization  that can help bind the world and address the issues of the world in a holistic manner.

source: http://www.articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / Home> City> Hyderabad / TNN / April 08th, 2013