{"id":91645,"date":"2020-01-28T03:00:31","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T21:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=91645"},"modified":"2020-01-28T03:00:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T21:30:31","slug":"maiden-innovation-award-2020-presented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/01\/28\/maiden-innovation-award-2020-presented\/","title":{"rendered":"Maiden Innovation Award-2020 presented"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ITANAGAR, Jan 27:<\/strong> Ha Tade (NERIST), Avang Wangsu (NIT, Yupia), Rinchin Norbu Granchidar (West Kameng), Lahar Jyoti (Assam) and Liagi Bath (Lower Subansiri) were presented with the maiden Innovation Award-2020 on the final day of the Innovation Festival-2020 at the Arunachal Pradesh Science Centre here on Sunday.<br \/>\nThe winners were among the innovators and entrepreneurs who showcased their prototypes, project models and products during the Innovation Festival, organised by the Arunachal Pradesh State Council of Science &amp; Technology, in linkage with the National Innovation Foundation (NIF).<br \/>\nA mentorship programme for students selected under the Inspire Awards &#8211; MANAK was also held simultaneously for the students selected from Arunachal, under the guidance of Dr Nitin Maurya from the NIF.<br \/>\nDr Maurya informed that the five students who have been selected will represent the state at the national-level contest in Delhi, to be held at a later date.<br \/>\nKarge Basar from GHSS Dari (Leparada district) and Aman Yadav from NIOS were awarded prizes under the &#8216;school category&#8217;.<br \/>\nA quiz competition, a robotics demonstration and other activities were also held in the &#8216;innovation hub&#8217; area.<br \/>\nSpeaking to this daily, Science Centre Curator Vivek Kumar said the festival&#8217;s module and programmes had been finalized in such a way so as to &#8220;rekindle the interest and admiration of science among the minds of the participant students and the visitors.&#8221;<br \/>\nMany of the visitors opined that such festivals and programmes should be organised at regular intervals.<br \/>\n&#8220;Innovation Festival-2020 was a learning experience for me as I got to see many new innovations and practical applications of science in our day-to-day life,&#8221; said Nisha Loyi, a student from Blue Pine Residential School, adding that such programmes should be organised at the school level, as well.<br \/>\nEchoing a similar opinion, C Sector (Itanagar) GMS Headmaster Take Lusi Sorum said &#8220;there should be proper awareness and information whenever such programmes are held, so that more students are benefitted.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, Jan 27: Ha Tade (NERIST), Avang Wangsu (NIT, Yupia), Rinchin Norbu Granchidar (West Kameng), Lahar Jyoti (Assam) and Liagi Bath (Lower Subansiri) were presented with the maiden Innovation Award-2020 on the final day of the Innovation Festival-2020 at the Arunachal Pradesh Science Centre here on Sunday. The winners were among the innovators [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91660,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-91645","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}