Prizes totalling Rs21 lakh are on offer to college and university students as the Pune-headquartered KPIT Technologies Ltd gets in with its Sparkle 2021as a partner of the Chamber of Marathwada Industries and Agriculture (CMIA) for its Marathwada Accelerator for Growth and Incubation Council (MAGIC). KPIT Sparkle, which is one of India’s largest contests focused on creating a culture of innovation and providing students with an opportunity to come up with ideas to solve socially relevant issues, brings industry and academia together to shape the innovations of the future. Faculty and students of undergraduate, post-graduate and PhD courses from the science, engineering, design and management streams of colleges and universities all over India find a platform at this seven-year-old initiative. This year’s competition theme is ‘Mobility & Energy for the Future’. A global technology company with software solutions that “help mobility leapfrog towards an autonomous, clean, smart and connected future”, KPIT’s Sparkle platform organises student innovation contests known as i Innovate and i can Crack IT as a CSR initiative, targeted towards inculcating innovation in academic. MAGIC is one of the few incubators from all over the country which are partnering with it for next year’s awards. With a stated mission of supporting, nurturing and mentoring innovation for students within STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics)with a focus on the areas of mobility and energy, it aims at spreading the culture of innovation at the grassroots level and inculcating innovative thinking to identify and solve a real-life use-case/problem by developing a solution.
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KPIT founder chairman Ravi Pandit (3rd from right) with Dr R.S. Mashelkar and last year’s awardees
