iStart has espoused an iStart School Innovation Challenge, given its innovation, entrepreneurship development, and learning-by-doing ethos. It has been envisaged to help unleash immense strength, creativity and potential of school students of Rajasthan.
The challenges have been divided in 7 mail Themes, These challenges would give students from across the state an opportunity to showcase their ability to innovate and invent on a variety of thematic areas keeping SDG in consideration.
Themes of the challenges
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Waste Management
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Food & Agriculture
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Water And Sanitation
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Health And Well-Being
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Education
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Road Safety
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Covid 19
Who can Participate?
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School Students : All students, attending Class 8th to 12th from state-run schools (Government, state-aided and private schools in Rajasthan.
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College Students : All Students, Studying in College/ Universities in Rajasthan.
Registration & Submission of Idea
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Registration : All school & College students to register on iStart platform. Link to register
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Formation of Team : Students can apply for the Challenge as an individual or as a team.
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Submission of Idea : An individual student innovator can participate in multiple challenges however submit only one application for a challenge. In the case of teams, each team will have to select a team leader who will represent them at different forums. A team cannot submit multiple applications for the same challenge.
Last Date of Registration: May 31, 2022
Awards and Recognition : Cash Rewards for Individual and Team Innovators
| Sr. No. | Level | 1st Prize (INR) | 2nd Prize (INR) | 3rd Prize (INR) |
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| 1 | District | 50,000 | 25,000 | 10,000 |
| 2 | Division | 75,000 | 50,000 | 25,000 |
| 3 | State | 1,00,000 | 75,000 | 50,000 |
Rules & Guidelines
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Participants are required to register themselves on the iStart school startup platform.
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Winner/s will retain the solution/product developed as part of the Challenge. The winner/s will however have to conform to the terms and conditions defined for the Challenge during the competition and post winning the award.
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DoIT&C reserves the right to select or reject any submission without assigning any reasons whatsoever and without thereby incurring any liability to the participant(s) whatsoever.
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The solution should not violate/ breach/ copy any idea/ concept/ product already copyrighted, patented, or existing in the market.
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Anyone found to be non-compliant, may get their participation canceled.
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Jury will take the final call for any unforeseen situation.
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If there is a tie-up between Schools in the award category number of participations, the number of ideas selected for the next level will be considered to decide the winning school.
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For any dispute redressal, Commissioner & JS, Department of Information Technology & Communication (DoIT&C), Government of Rajasthan’s decision will be the final verdict on the matter.
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