7 day workshop on Innovation and entrepreneurship at MBCET Trivandrum, India

(25th - 31st May 2014)

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conducted by

Adithya PasupuletiFounder,Innovation 101Email-ID : adithya1869@gmail.com

Students interacting with farmers to understand their pain-points as a part of the design process

On day one, students were introduced to basics of design process and given exposure to interviewing skills thats required while gaining customer insights. It was their first ever interaction with a farmers / shop-keepers in a non-transactional way. The students were made to interact with each other in the group to enable better communication among the group members

Day 1 - Intro to design process | Getting to know each other | Visit to a farmer’s market

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Students giving feedback after a session on problem identification at disability center

The students had their introduction to arduino and programming. They got their first

hardware component and code working. Then they were at the Vocational training

center to identify problems in the space of disability. The students were surprised to see

the common challenges faced by the differently-abled.

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Day 2 - Introduction to Arduino | Visit to vocational training center | Problem identification

Day three was more into the documentation, Problem statement formation, identifying the problem to solve and gathering secondary information about the problem. Students were taught to abstain from solutions and get more details of the problem they were trying to solve

Students discussing about the problems they would be solving during the course of the workshop Innovation

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Day 3 - Problem statement formation | Secondary data gathering | Documentation

Students brainstorming for finding solutions to the problems they identified at the disability center

The day began with brainstorming and was followed by concept generation,

prototyping and concept selection. Initially quantity of ideas were focused

and later quality of the ideas were focused to come up with great

concepts. We had a senior student giving introduction to android programming to the students

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Day 4 - Brainstorming | Concept Generations | Concept selection | Prototyping

Students got to meet an entrepreneur from the local ecosystem to understand the struggle and joy of an entrepreneurial journey.

Students were introduced to Business models and prototyping. The teams came up with great initial concepts and prototypes and presented at the end of the day

Day 5 - Business Modelling | Guest entrepreneur talk | Prototyping

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Mr. Paul Anand from Biotz, sharing his entrepreneurial journey with students

Day 6 - Prototyping glitches | Video lectures | Presentation

Prototyping was continued and the students got their hardware up and running on this day. Some of them

were stuck with at the concept stage. They understood the real meaning to prototyping when they were hung up

with challenges while prototyping

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Adithya Pasupuleti from Innovation 101 sharing the importance of team and building a culture of the team from the beginning

The final day was action packed with sessions on how to take their prototypes forward, team presentations, interactions with alumni and guest speakers, assigning responsibilities for future works, team outing and follow-up mechanisms

Day 7 - Presentations | Guest Lecture | Way forward for Student teams ( Startups )

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Clockwise from top-left. : Guest lecture by Mr. Ajith, Prof. Rao, team presentations and outing

Feedback from Students

It helped me do things beyond what I thought I would never do. It helped me to push my thinking far from my limit

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The main thing which the workshop aimed is to grab every opportunity what you get, don't WAIT.

The major things that i have learnt from the workshop is that the society have a lot problems to solve. We can solve these problems only if we try it.

I learnt how to solve a problem, and that jumping into a solution quickly is not always the best way

I never expected I would help the differently-abled with the projects we are working on. I learned to work in a team

and the methodology to find and solve problems

Acknowledgements

Dr. T M George - Principal, MBCETProf. S.Viswanatha Rao, Head, Dept of ECE, MBCETMr. Biju Varghese, Head, Placement Dept., MBCET

Mr. Paul Anand, CEO, BiotzMr. Ajith Kumar, Genilok Systems

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Core Faculty

Mr. Adithya Pasupuleti Founder

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Zachariah Mathews Secretary, Catalyst

4th year Student - MBCET

Joshua K MathewJoint Secretary, Catalyst

4th year Student - MBCET

Danny Sam SalmonMember, Catalyst

3rd year student - MBCET

Madhav M NairMember, Catalyst

2nd year student - MBCET

Blessy LuisMember, Catalyst

3rd year student - MBCET

Akhil RMember, Catalyst

2nd year student - MBCET

Athul Chacko PhilipMember, Catalyst

3rd year student - MBCET

Team of Student organizers and facilitators

Ani Sam VargheseMember, Catalyst

3rd year student - MBCET

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Student Teams | Product Domain

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“A cost-effective way to improve means of communication between the faculty and the deaf-and-mute students in the classroom environment of vocational training centers”

“A way to improve communication in emergency situations for a deaf and mute person in order to get immediate help”

“A better way to impart basic arithmetic education for deaf and mute students to empower them to be

independent”

“A way to improve awareness for the deaf and mute person beyond his/her visual range surrounding him/her on a roadside in order to avoid any road traffic accidents

(RTA)”

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With this introduction to innovation, their journey as innovators begins…

For more details contact : Adithya Pasupuleti Founder, Innovation 101

+91 90353 43973adithya1869@gmail.com

www.facebook.com/innovation101

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