Inventure Academy’s Change Maker Challenge Season 6 – Top 3 & Special Commendations Teams
We are pleased to announce the top three teams identified by our judges for “Scale and Sustain” funding:
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School
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Project
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DIY Aquaponics
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Saandeepani Academy for Excellence
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Growing and use of chemical-free crops using aquaponics.
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CEFA (Creative Education for All)
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Inventure Academy
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Inspiring Middle School students from underprivileged backgrounds to learn using creative avenues
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Team Radha
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Inventure Academy
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Building financial literacy in underprivileged teens through a curated curriculum and awareness of available government schemes on fixed and recurring deposits.
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It is wonderful to note that Team DIY Aquaponics – even though they did not get picked by judges for Round 3 – continued their changemaking work with passion, enthusiasm and their own funding. We were very happy to see them come back with a progress update on their changemaking journey before Round 3 and excited to include them in the Round 3 presentations. We also love the spirit of Team BrightLeaf and Team Beej who have informed us that they are continuing their journey on their own and will join us again in a later CMC after making more progress.
CMC 2022-2023 Commendations
In addition, the following two teams from Round 3 are being awarded an Inventure Commendation based on recommendations from the judges and supermentors, for the quantum of progress they made, for being hands-on and getting things done, while addressing a critical problem:
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Team Name
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School
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Project
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Education Supporter
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Parikrma Center for Learning, Sahakarnagar
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Working on creating awareness about autism in their school and improve/enhance the social skills of autistic students to ensure they are included in various cultural activities.
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Soilfit
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The International School Bangalore
Greenwood High
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Aims to improve farm productivity using IoT and AI to help farmers make better decisions through automation and better access to information.
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Teams – Aquaponics, CEFA and Radha – granted the “Scale and Sustain” award are eligible for additional funding as they complete and update us on further milestones in their changemaking project journey. Total funding of INR 1 lakh is available for these Top 3 teams based on the needs of their project and the progress they make.
Congratulations to the top 10 + 3 wild card teams to have made it to the Round 3 of Inventure’s Changemaker Challenge 2022-23!
Here are the Round 3 presentations.
TOP 10 teams for CMC 2022-23 are as listed below:
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| Team Parikrma Mobile Book Curator | Parikrma Center for Learning, Nandini Layout | Team Parikrma Mobile Book Curator is setting up a Circulating Library in the community to help the students/children to read books out of their syllabus. They want the students to understand the joy of reading by giving them access to read books out of their syllabus. They want to do this by setting up a book drive, a dedicated team who will support them in screening the books and taking help from the local authorities to set up the library. |
| Team Pennywise | Inventure Academy | This team aims to build financial literacy in underprivileged teens using a curated curriculum and introducing available government schemes on fixed and recurring deposits. The sessions will help understand the importance of a regular saving habit and the ways in which one can go about increasing their wealth. The team will hold sessions in government schools and use role play, questionnaires, virtual money maker and introduce simple saving schemes at school to help parents open and operate savings accounts for their children. |
| Team Money Matters | Inventure Academy | Team Money Matters aims at providing financial education to bus didis of Inventure Academy in collaboration with Buzz Women. They aim at conducting workshops designed by Buzz Women to help these women in crucial elements like budgeting, financial awareness and investments. |
| Team Our Roads | Inventure Academy | Team Our Roads aims to develop an app to allow civilians to bring attention to potholes in the city. Volunteers amongst the citizens will be asked to adopt potholes or pothole dense roads and they are working on ways to ensure that the government is forced to take some action. The team is planning to work with Whitefield Rising, a social work program, in order to fix the roads. At the same time, they will develop the app. |
| Team Soil Fit | TISB Green Wood High |
Team Soilfit aims to improve farm productivity using IoT and AI.They would like to help farmers change the way they make decisions by automating soil health cards and giving recommendations on what crops to grow and what fertilizers to use. |
| Team Voice4u | Inventure Academy Sri Aurobindo Memorial School |
Team Voice4u aims to provide mental and emotional support to people with disabilities. The team plans to build a community of people with disabilities and provide access to therapists and workshops to create awareness while maintaining anonymity and user privacy. |
| Team Education Supporter | Parikrma Center for Learning Sahakarnagar | Team Education Supporters want to work on creating awareness about autism in their school and improve/enhance the social skills of autistic students, and ensure they are included in various cultural activities. |
| Team Parikrma Feminine Hygiene Warriors | Parikrma Center for Learning, Nandini Layout | Team ‘Parikrma Feminine Hygiene Warriors’ wants to mass produce medically approved silk sanitary napkins using local expertise,to prevent dependency on synthetic sanitary napkins. This is aimed at the safe hygiene of females in the age group 12 to 40 who reside in and around Nandini Layout. |
| Team CEFA (Creative Education for All) | Inventure Academy | Team Creative Education for all (CEFA) aims to inspire middle school students from underprivileged backgrounds by engaging them in independent creative learning and using science experiment kits. |
| Team NAVSETU | KC Public School Jammu | Team Navsetu plans to work with the children in the Roopnagar and Udheywala slums to teach them computer literacy skills and provide them access to libraries and fun-filled activities like drama, art, music, dance, storytelling and games. |
Wild Card teams who also make it into Round 3 of CMC 2022-23 are as follows:
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| Team Hyrdolution | Inventure Academy | Team Hydrolution will conduct an audit to enable schools in Bangalore to build Rainwater Harvesting Systems. This will be done in consultation with professionals . The team looks at mobilising funds for the schools to build these systems if they need and coordinate with the schools to build them. |
| Team Starling | Oasis International School | Team Starling is working on protecting and increasing the declining mynahs’ and sparrows’ population through healthy habitats . They believe that this will balance the ecosystem and improve the quality of their neighborhood. They plan to do this in collaboration ith NGOs by using bird feeders, creating more terrace gardens and building mini bird homes. |
| Team Technowares | Sunbeam School Varuna | Team Technowares are aiming to build a firefighting robot that will be used in places which are difficult to reach for fire engines and too challenging for humans to access. Their robot, FEBO, will be a first aid. They are developing a functional prototype and the local fire brigade are willing to test it in the pilot phase. |
Congratulations on being selected to the top 25 teams ( top 20 + 5 wild card entries) with project ideas for changemaker challenge (CMC) 2022-23 on sustainable solutions for an area of global concern including ‘Healthcare and Personal Well-Being’, ‘Education’, ‘Infrastructure’ or ‘Environment’. The project ideas have been selected keeping in mind clarity on problem definition, benefit, beneficiary, anticipated challenges, scope of impact and credibility.
Here are the Round 2 presentations.
| S.No | Final Decision | School Names of Team Members | Location | Project Description |
| 1 | Top 20 | Parikrma Center for Learning, Nandini Layout | Bengaluru, India | Health care and Personal wellbeing for the Parikrama student community |
| 2 | Top 20 | Parikrma Center for Learning, Nandini Layout | Bengaluru, India | Education for the student community Parikrma circulating library and Parikrma Kreeda Koushalya |
| 3 | Top 20 | Inventure Academy | Bangalore, India | Audit for greenwashing |
| 4 | Top 20 | Inventure Academy | Bangalore, India | Cotton clothiline using biodegradable, non-toxic, hypo-allergenic, and antimicrobial dye produced from the stems and leaves of organically grown tobacco plants. |
| 5 | Top 20 | Inventure Academy | Bangalore, Karnataka | Low cost transportation of water from low lying areas to high lying area and recycle/reuse the water for domestic purposes. |
| 6 | Top 20 | NIOS, PARIKRMA CENTER FOR LEARNING SAHAKARNAGAR | Bangalore,India | Literary skills, cultural and social activities for children of migrant workers. |
| 7 | Top 20 | Inventure academy, Sri aurobindo memorial school | Bangalore | Moral support, awareness and education for newly disabled people |
| 8 | Top 20 | Inventure Academy | Bangalore, India | Create safe space for people with mental health issues |
| 9 | Top 20 | Inventure Academy, National Public School Whitefield | Bangalore, India | Develop an app to indicate to govt about the road safety issues and potholes |
| 10 | Top 20 | Saandeepani Academy For Exellence | Bangalore,Karnataka | Acquiring and selling traditional and country seeds that are now rarely sold |
| 11 | Top 20 | Oasis International School | India, Bangalore | Clean and cost effective energy sources into the lives of people who are at a social disadvantage. |
| 12 | Top 20 | Inventure Academy | Bangalore,India | Improve the financial literacy of the youth . |
| 13 | Top 20 | Inventure Academy | Bangalore, India | Ensuring children from a different socioeconomic strata can access education regardless of location & gender |
| 14 | Top 20 | Inventure Academy | Bangalore, India | Water more accessible to minorities in Bangalore. |
| 15 | Top 20 | Oasis International School | Bangalore and India | Reduction of plastic usage in school campus |
| 16 | Top 20 | Inventure Academy | Bangalore, India | Colleage and career guidance for grade 11 and 12 students |
| 17 | Top 20 | Inventure Academy | Bangalore , India | Financial independance for girls |
| 18 | Top 20 | KC Public School Jammu (All Round Square schools) | Jammu, India | Benefit of slum children of Jammu with the purpose of imparting positive direction to their lives by sharing and celebrating joy with them through personalized connection and fun-filled activities, such as drama, art, music, dance, storytelling and games. |
| 19 | Top 20 | Oasis International School | Bangalore, Karanataka, India | Protecting and increasing bird population in Bangalore specially mynahs and sparrows |
| 20 | Top 20 | Sunbeam School Varina | Varanasi India | Protection of people from fire using robotic assitance |
| 21 | Wild Card | Parikrma Centre For Learning , Sahakarnagar. | Bangalore, India | Sustainable healthcare for the underprivileged community children |
| 22 | Wild Card | Saandeepani Academy For Exellence | Bangalore, India | Chemical free crops and growing using aquaponis |
| 23 | Wild Card | Inveture Academy | Bangalore, India | Increasing the usage of public transport by creating a personal connect with BMTC staff |
| 24 | Wild Card | TISB, Green Wood High | Bangalore, India | Soil health cards for farmers |
| 25 | Wild Card | Inventure Academy | Bangalore | Easy access to fresh water |
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