Faridabad, December 20, 2024 – In a dazzling display of creativity and problem-solving prowess, Grade 10 students at Shiv Nadar School Noida, Gurugram and Faridabad showcased some cutting-edge technical prototypes solving real-life concerns at Colloquium 2024. The coveted first prize went to team STEPWise from Shiv Nadar School, Noida, comprising Shivansh Sharda, Aadish Garg, Armaan Sadh, and Omar Ahmad. Their groundbreaking invention, STEPWise, an innovative indoor navigation system that empowers blind individuals, enabling them to confidently and independently navigate unfamiliar spaces with safety and ease, won them an academic excursion to CERN. CERN is a European Organization for Nuclear Research, one of the world’s largest and most respected centres for scientific research. It is the site of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest and highest-energy particle collider.
Team Helmair from Shiv Nadar School Faridabad, secured second place. Samar Sharma, Satt Gupta, Aadit Dua, Ananya Ahuja, and Rayhan Taneja developed an inflatable helmet that provides lightweight, affordable, and immediate head protection for two-wheeler riders, enhancing safety and comfort during daily use.
Col. (Retd.) Gopal Karunakaran, CEO of Shiv Nadar School, highlighted, “At Shiv Nadar School, we nurture innovation and problem-solving by embedding design thinking into our approach, supported by experiential pedagogy and technology integration. Through our annual technology initiative, Colloquium, Grade 10 students apply critical thinking, communication skills, and market understanding to create project-based solutions for real-world social issues, shaping the global citizens of tomorrow.”
Other innovations that received a special mention from the jury include AllergiFind, Eudaimonia, NetSense, and Dysgraphicon.
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About Shiv Nadar School
The Shiv Nadar School is a not-for-profit initiative of the Shiv Nadar Foundation in K12 private education to deliver educational excellence and provide “Education for Life”. With three campuses in the NCR and one in Chennai, Shiv Nadar School provides students with an environment that challenges them to discover their talent and skills while aiming to nurture ethical, respectful, happy, and purposeful citizens of society. 6500+ students and their parents, along with a team of around 1100+ educators, are a part of the Shiv Nadar School family.
About Shiv Nadar Foundation
Established in 1994, by Shiv Nadar, Founder, HCL – a US$12.8 billion leading global technology enterprise, the Foundation is committed to the creation of a more equitable, merit-based society by empowering individuals through transformational education, and to bridge the socio-economic divide. Over the last 27 years the Foundation has directly touched the lives of over 36,000 alumni and students through its marquee institutions in literacy, K12 and higher education. Today, the Foundation has a community of over 1,00,000 constituents, which includes not only globally dispersed alumni and students but also faculty members, corporate executives, and extended families. The Foundation has invested over US$1.1 billion in its seven landmark institutions and initiatives across education and art. Currently close to 14,000 students and over 2,000 faculty are part of the Foundation along with more than 22,000 strong globally dispersed alumni community.
The Foundation’s students have gone to study at some of the best institutions globally including the Ivy League in the US and top universities in other countries including Australia, Singapore, China and UK. Students are also working in major corporations, including Goldman Sachs, Honda, HP, Schindler, and several others both in India and across other geographies. Faculty across the Foundation institutions are drawn from the best Indian and international universities, with a strong focus on research and innovation.
The Shiv Nadar Foundation pursues the philosophy of ‘Creative Philanthropy’. It is a powerful model which envisages creation of institutions that are built to last and continue to impact future generations. It is an approach that allows sustained institutionalized philanthropy for long-term, high-impact, socio-economic transformation.
About HCL
Founded in 1976 as one of India’s original IT garage start-ups, HCL is a pioneer of modern computing with many firsts to its credit, including the introduction of the 8-bit microprocessor-based computer in 1978 well before its global peers. Today, the HCL enterprise has a presence across varied sectors that include technology, healthcare and talent management solutions and comprises three companies – HCL Infosystems, HCLTech and HCL Healthcare. The enterprise generates annual revenues of over US$13.4 billion with 219,000 employees operating across 60 countries
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