Welcome to the August edition of our newsletter!
This month, we want to bring Engineering Excellence and Innovation to the forefront.
I want to introduce you to Rajan Vaz, the brains behind Lightstone Technologies Group, a company that serves as an incubation platform for start-ups. He has created an easy-to-adapt model that drives an increase in entrepreneurship and has been trying to evangelize TL/MBF in joining hands with his venture.
We also have some major announcements which showcase how students are working with leading companies and solving real-world problems.
And of course, the heart of our newsletter is the Tinkerers’ Lab itself, through which all these opportunities and achievements are made possible.
Happy tinkering!
Dr. Hemant Kanakia
Spotlight
Lightstone Technology Group
Over the past two and a half years, Dr. Rajan Vaz (Chem E, IITB75), has been conducting summer and winter internship sessions, serving as an incubation platform for start-ups. With an established core team of half a dozen seniors, Lightstone Technologies Group, under the auspices of MBF, runs this development program using the latest industry-standard – tools and practices – daily standups, weekly ATMs with presentations. While the areas of interest covered thus far were predominantly focused on AI/ML and AI powered IOT, plans are to expand to several other project areas to include hardware development.
“Having started this Startup Factory initiative rather tentatively, I am now firmly of the opinion that we can build up on it, to provide all stakeholders some measurable results. Primary objective of this program would be to foster entrepreneurship among engineering undergraduates while leveraging parts of the startup ecosystem that is available in our institutes.”
Rajan Vaz
Chairman and MD, Lightstone Technologies Group.
Director and Mentor of the Internship Program
Announcements
HPxMBF
HP has a challenge:
“How can PLC (Print Learn Center) get to 1mn subscribers and increase print usage for them by X% in the next 12 months by enhancing value prop to solve specific customer problems leveraging new age AI models?”
They collaborated with us to present students with an opportunity to win $5000 USD and a Pre-Placement Interview with a direct walk-in to the final round.
With 75+ applications, students from Tinkerers’ Lab across IIT Bombay, IIT Gandhinagar, IIT Jammu, and IIT Hyderabad rise up to the challenge.
New Beginnings
We are thrilled to announce the newest addition to the Tinkerers’ Lab ecosystem: IIT Indore!
Join us on Instagram and Facebook to get live updates of the grand inauguration ceremony on 11th September,
where we will proudly honor the esteemed Prof. D. B. Phatak by naming the lab after him.
