‘The idea competition’
A scheme for students with scientific temperament
By: SAHIL MANZOOR
The Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, has announced the nominations for the current year 2023–2024 andstudents throughout the country can participate in idea competitions at the school level. The world is advanced enough in the field of innovations, technology, and so on. With the passing of years, the population graph in the world increases which is directly proportional to the increase in day-to-day demands. It includes everything from a needle to giant space rockets, from a toy to large ships. One should have an observing, experiencing, and wandering mind.
We are living in an advanced era where we are quite curious about inventions and technology. Throughout the world, every leader talks about her country’s atomic power, its spacecraft, its war tanks, and several other weapons. The manpower behind all this hardly makes an appearance in the media even thoughwe fully know the importance of innovations and technology in this modern era.
Great scientists have laced the world with great, useful, wonder technologies. Today, we are able to know the moments of our internal body organs and we are able to know how long the network of our vessels in our body lasts.
Innovations are neither myths nor lies. Behind every single innovation, there is a human mind that collects, experiences, notices what is happening around him or her, and tries to resolve the difficulties faced by the world. We know how countries are making their mark in the field of technology. Every country is improving its science and technology sector and wants to achieve the best results depending on its finest brains. It is fortunate that the science and technology sectors in most of the countries are encouraging youths, motivating them, catering to them with scholarships, introducing fellowship programmes etc.
A centrally sponsored scheme-‘Inspire Award, MANAK’ that explores and brings to the fore interesting stories and facts about innovations. We know and believe that our generation is full of potential and has quite intelligent brains.
The scheme aims that all the educational institutes throughout the country have a legitimate right and are required to take part in the inspire awards and MANAK programmes and forward the innovative ideas of their students to the Department of Science and Technology New Delhi. Schools, government and private, need to approach their concerned DIETs (District Institute of Education and Trainings), and they will collect information on how to go through the whole process.
The inspire awards, MANAK (Millions Minds Augmenting National Aspirations and Knowledge), is being executed by the DST (Department of Science and Technology) in collaboration with the National Innovation Foundation of India (NIF), an autonomous body of the DST that aims to motivate students in the age group of 10–15 who are studying in the 6th–10th grade.
It also lays out the blueprint of how to conduct idea competitions in schools and ensures that the selected students get a cash reward of Rs 10, 000 (ten thousand). School HOI’s (heads of institutes) select a computer-known teacher as the teacher in charge of inspiring awards in their respective schools; the in-charge teachers look’s after the whole process throughout the year and has to:
1. Conduct an idea competition in the schools before the stipulated date for inspiring award nominations announced by the DST.
2. Select innovative or modified ideas from the students. 5 (five) students from middle school and 2 (two) students from secondary school
3. Collect the details of the nominated students, like their bank details and Aadhaar details; kindly mention the name of the student appearing in the bank pass book; and account execution must be reliable.
4. Search on Google for “www.dst.gov.in” or simply search for Inspire Awards.
5. Login as the school authority considers the credentials provided by the district authority.
6. In word format, write the write-ups of the student and insert a rough diagram of the idea of the student, which is then forwarded to the District Authority. In case of any query, contact me below, as mentioned on my email ID.
