Solve for Tomorrow 2023: Samsung India announces Top 10 Teams to compete for INR 1.5 Cr

Over the next 12 weeks, the Top 10 teams will work on enhancing their prototypes for the final pitch that will be in front of an eminent jury in October 2023. The annual program will end with the grand announcement of three national winners who stand a chance to win INR 1.5 crore in prize money.

Samsung India announced the Top 10 teams of its national education and innovation competition, ‘Solve for Tomorrow’, celebrating the spirit of innovation, enterprise and social responsibility amongst India’s Gen Z. These 10 teams came up with ideas to solve real-world problems ranging from converting seawater into potable water, identifying pests and diseases in crops, food wastage, cleaning beaches, developing a more sustainable leather tanning process to providing more accessibility to individuals with hearing loss. Their ideas also seek to bridge the communication gap with sign language users, find missing children, help individuals stay cool in the summers and help the visually impaired to read.

The Top 10 teams of Solve for Tomorrow 2023 were shortlisted after a bootcamp at IIT Delhi. These teams visited Samsung India offices, its R&D centres, design centre and the Samsung Opera House in Bengaluru where they interacted with Samsung employees and researchers. At the bootcamp, Samsung and its partners FITT and MeitY Startup Hub mentored them, helping them enhance their ideas. Each team also got INR 20,000 to create initial prototypes and then pitched their ideas to a jury of young Samsung employees. Each team member got a Samsung Galaxy Book3 Pro 360 laptop and Galaxy Buds2 Pro alongside a certificate for attending the bootcamp.

Top 10 teams and the problems they are solving:

Demeter: Developing a solution for identifying pests and diseases in crops

Hackvengers: Developing a sign language interpretation device that can bridge the communication gap between sign language users and non-signers promoting inclusivity

Jalraaj: Working on a portable solution to convert seawater into water that can be used for drinking

Milaan: Developed an app that will help families find their children who may have gone missing

Musketeers: Developing a solution to enhance accessibility and inclusivity for individuals with hearing loss, enabling them to overcome communication barriers and participate fully in society

NIT Surat: Finding a solution to the problem of cleaning beaches where significant amounts of waste is accumulated

Releathered: Developing a more sustainable leather tanning process

TEG: Reusing food waste from cafeterias to create biogas that could power community project

Think: Developed a solution to help people stay cool in the scorching summer heat

Touchpad: Developing a reading solution for visually impaired individuals through use of tactile display-based pad

Teams to compete for INR 1.5 crore prize money

Over the next 12 weeks, the Top 10 teams will work on enhancing their prototypes for the final pitch that will be in front of an eminent jury in October 2023. For this, the teams will get an additional INR 100,000 each and mentoring support from Samsung employees and industry experts from IIT Delhi, who will handhold them in various areas including tech, design, marketing and policy.

These 10 teams will also feature in a TV series that will be produced by the News18 Group and be telecast on their national channels as well as OTT platform JioCinema. They will also get the latest Galaxy Z Flip smartphone. The annual program will end with the grand announcement of three national winners who stand a chance to win INR 1.5 crore in prize money. First launched in the US in 2010, Solve for Tomorrow is currently operational in 63 countries globally and has seen over 2.3 million young people participate worldwide.

With an aim to foster a culture of innovative thinking and problem solving among the nation’s youth, the competition invited ideas from 16-22-year-olds to solve problems around four themes – Education & Learning, Health & Wellness, Environment & Sustainability and Diversity & Inclusion.  Solve for Tomorrow 2023 has seen youth from across 500 cities, towns and villages of India respond and submit ideas to help tackle problems that India faces, symbolic of the innovation and entrepreneurial spirit of Bharat.

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