BITS, Pilani students - Sashakt Tripathi, Ahmad Faraaz, Shubham Gupta and Harshit Awasthi have won India Innovation Growth Programme 2.0 (IIGP 2.0 ) organized by the Department of Science and Technology, TATA Trust and Lockheed Martin. Under the University Challenge section, their campus based start up, Elixar Systems was selected among the top ten. Under this programme they have got a grant of 10 Lakhs as research grant and startup mentorship from IIM, Ahmedabad in Entrepreneurial development. The finale was held at IIT Bombay on 3rd July, 2019 and the award ceremony was held at Taj Palace, New Delhi on 17th July, 2019 hosted by the Union Cabinet Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan and other delegates.

The students in the startup work in Augmented Reality and aim to bring revolution in Pedagogical methods.Challenging the existing conventional paradigms, they envision transforming the educational system of India. They utilize futuristic field of Augmented Reality for developing experiential learning content for students. Their innovation has also won them 1st prize at IISc Bangalore innovation summit in January and BITS TBI incubation.

The joy is doubled for BITS Pilani as another team from campus, Cortex was also among the winners.

Link of the event coverage: https://youtu.be/jKmRJuhjGOs