Award Ceremony of NES Innovation Awards 2023
7th April 2023
Students, Vibhanshu (23562) EEE - 3rd Year, Aryan Yadav, (23476), ECE - 3rd Year and Abhimanyu Arya (23472) ECE - 3rd Year from Dronacharya College of Engineering, Gurugram attended Award Ceremony of NES Innovation Awards 2023, Pune and bagged second prize under the guidance of Mrs. Neha Verma (Assistant Professor- ECE Dept), for their Project “I-agropod” on 7th April 2023. Students were awarded with cash prize of Rs. 30,000 along with the trophy and certificates.
The Award function progressed in the presence of Padma Vibhushan Shri. Raghunath A. Mashelkar (Keynote Speaker) presided by Dr. Ganesh Natarajan and in presence of Dr. Uma Ganesh.
Natarajan Education Society (NES) has established a national award program that will be administered through an innovation identification mission that will span academic institutions across the country and identify the best ideas / student projects that have scalability and commercial potential. This prestigious award was than alienated into three parts, the Workshop, Concept presentation and Awards function.
The First phase of competition started on 15th January 2023 which was the submission deadline for projects. On 28th January 2023, two teams from Dronacharya College of Engineering, Gurugram reached their first milestone by securing a position in Top 50 amongst the thousands of students who participated in this competition. After the successfully submitting the business model and project video towards the competition, students qualified for the Jury Round scheduled on 24th and 25th March 2023, conducted in online mode. The selection criteria of the round were Innovation and originality of the concept or approach Idea, significant problem of society that may find a solution and finding a new domain with international potential.