3 Students of Bokaro Selected for Project Inspire Award | 01 Feb 2022

On January 31, 2022, three students of DPS Bokaro, Utkarsh Raj and Abhitit Sharan of class IX and Anjali Kumari of class VIII were selected for INSPIRE Award- Million Minds Augmenting National Aspirations and Knowledge (MANAK).

These three students will represent their school DPS Bokaro in the district level exhibition and project competition to be organized by the District Education Authority.
Significantly, the INSPIRE Award - MANAK is executed by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) along with National Innovation Foundation - India (NIF).
The objective of the award is to target one million original ideas/innovations rooted in science and social applications to foster a culture of creativity and innovative thinking among students studying in classes 6 to 10.
In this, each selected student will get 10,000 rupees and they will also participate in the district level competition. Further students will be shortlisted to participate in the state level competition, finally one thousand students will get an opportunity to showcase their innovations at the national level.
Sixty innovative projects will be fully incubated (patent filing, value addition in technology and product development, etc.) by NIF and will be showcased at the Annual Festival of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (FINE).