www.nif.org.in IGNITE 2012 Competition Students Ideas and Innovation : National Innovation Foundation

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IGNITE 2012
National Innovation Foundation - India announces the 6 th National Competition for Students' Ideas and Innovations in association with
Honey Bee Network, SRISTI, CBSE & other partners

National Innovation Foundation invites submissions of the creative technological ideas/innovations from the students up to class 12th for the sixth national competition for children's ideas and innovations - IGNITE 2012.

http://nif.org.in/ignite/ignite_announcement.php

NIF 9th Biennial Competition 2014-15: http://www.indianjobtalks.com/forum/...ad.php?t=73862

IGNITE 2015 : http://www.indianjobtalks.com/forum/...ad.php?t=74750

What is the IGNITE contest?
IGNITE is a national competition to harness the creative and innovative spirit of school children. Students are invited to send their original creative technological ideas and innovations for the same. IGNITE contest was first organised in 2007 by NIF in the four southern states. Building upon this experience, NIF partnered with CBSE in 2008 and 2009 and launched the contest nationally. IGNITE 2010 saw 2139 entries received from 161 districts of the country. The awards were given by Hon'ble Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam in a function at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad on November 8, 2010.

Why the IGNITE contest?
Creativity among children is almost in-born, every child is creative, degrees may vary, but not the basic manifestation. Then what happens during the growth and maturation? Why should children stop asking basic questions? Why do they agree to do repetitive science projects instead of being original? Why do they learn to live with unsolved social and professional problems? We should not allow our children to live with such problems rather urge them to come up with solutions to these. We want to promote originality, creativity and innovative spirit among our children so that when they become leaders of our society, they ensure an imaginative, inclusive and an innovative future for the country. We want our children to be more sensitive to the problems faced by not just them and their families or neighbors but also other socially disadvantaged sections of the society.

What is invited for the IGNITE contest?
Original creative technological ideas and innovations of the students OR/AND Any technological idea/innovation that solves any daily problem be it household, of porters, labourers, or the like. In addition, during their vacations or otherwise, the students are encouraged to look for other people who come out with innovative machines/devices or solve day to day problems using their creativity. Similarly they are also encouraged to document and learn traditional knowledge practices from their elders in their family and neighbourhood. The purpose is to expose them to the rich traditional heritage we have, facilitating its transfer from generation to generation. The students submitting the maximum number of properly documented entries (Innovations/Traditional Knowledge) to the schools (which would forward them to NIF) or directly to NIF would be given appreciation certificates from NIF. For each innovation/traditional knowledge practice spotted and documented by the student, he/she will be credited as being the 'Scout' for that particular innovation/traditional knowledge in records.

What is the competition period?
The entries will be received till Aug 31, 2012. All entries received after this date will be considered for IGNITE 13 competition.

How can the submissions be sent?
The submissions for the contest can be made to us through the following means.
1. Email the details at ignite12@nifindia.org
2. Mail them at the following address (directly/through the Principal)

IGNITE 2012
National Innovation Foundation, India
Bungalow 1, Satellite Complex,
Premchand Nagar Road, Satellite
Ahmedabad 380 015, Gujarat

Is there any limit to the number of entries submitted during the competition period?
No. The students are encouraged to submit as many entries as possible.

Is there any age limit for students?
As the competition is for students upto class 12, the maximum age is expected to be about 17-18 years.

Can only students with science background apply for the competition?
Students from any background arts, commerce etc can participate in the competition.

Is there any particular format for submission of entries?
There is no particular format for submission. However, the following should be clearly mentioned - name, age, class, school name & address, home address & contact number, title of the project/idea/innovation, detailed description, diagrams/sketches/photos if any and a simple declaration that the project has been done by the student himself/herself without guidance from teachers/parents. If required later we may request a declaration from school and/or parents that the project of the student has been unsupervised.

Is a working model required along with the submission?
Not at this stage. If required later we would ourselves let the student know and may even facilitate the development of the prototype/model.

[Guest]

Hello!
Respected madam/sir,
You in ur announcements of "All India Ignite-2012" had announced that a working model is not necessary at the stage of submission of document..

But, is a working model compulsory for the person to participate in competition- Is there any problem to participate without working model in entire competition.

Please send a message to email-id - gbsindhuja AT gmail.com

Thanking u.

[Guest]

Requested sir/madam
acc. to competition related to ignite 20Requested sir/madam
acc. to competition related to ignite 2012, is that possible that students taking part can participate in a group of 2 or maximum 3 students for a single project.
kindly inform me at the e.mail given below.
zeelshah95 AT gmail.com
thankyou sir/madam
student
std.12

[Guest]

I have completed 10 th standard. Can I apply to Ignite 2012?

[Guest]

is it project or experiment

[Guest]

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[Guest]

Please tell me that when will the results for ignite 2012 are going to be announced?

May I know when will be declared the results for IGNITE 12?

IGNITE 2012 result has been declared.

You can get the result for IGNITE 2012 from the below link
http://www.nif.org.in/ignite/IGNITE_2012_RESULT.pdf

[Unregistered]

Can I get to know what others presented,not just ideas but the way they presented it? How am i supposed to present it? Am i supposed to give out a detailed explaination of how to carry out the process or just mentioning the idea is enough?

[Unregistered]

How can I participate in Ignite