What?
Creating relevant and engaging learning experiences for students
At Technovation Sandbox, student teams receive seed funding and mentorship to identify a relevant local problem, design and develop a solution and finally, test and finetune it through deployment. The campus and its vicinity are testbeds for need identification and deployment of solutions. Participating students will gain experience in product development, leadership skills and entrepreneurship, skills which will be useful in their careers.
Why?
Students need experiential learning that goes beyond tinkering and building prototypes. We need to teach them how to identify real-world problems and design deployable solutions which are viable, cost- effective and manufacturable.
Infrastructure
Tinkerers’ Laboratory will be the workspace for Sandbox. Teams can also access Experiential Learning Lab at the EE Department and H7 Microfactory for prototyping.
Sandbox Process
Selection Criteria
Both software solutions and hardware product ideas are eligible. Effective and innovative solutions are desired but the product need not be patentable.
Evaluation Criteria
Relevance: Is the solution addressing a real problem?
Effectiveness: Is it technically feasible? Does the prototype work? Is it cost- effective?
Complexity: Is the project challenging and non-trivial? What is its measurable impact? Quality and Durability: Is it durable when deployed?
Viability: Is it commercially viable? More from Less: It should require low capital investment, have employment generation possibilities,
Faculty Leads
Prof Siddarth Tallur
Prof Darshan Shah
Prof. Varun Bhalerao
