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Amaravati MakerFaire

It all started with a discussion on how an exhibition should be conducted. We were searching for themes. We were three of us that day! Kavya of IB Hubs, Prashant, a manager whom I had entrusted the student events with, and myself.

Kavya came up with the idea of Maker Faire, that she learnt something like this was conducted in Bangalore. We immediately browsed through the net. All of us said an immediate yes to the event. Kavya filed an application for the license. After a month, we got a mail that we have to face an interview. And then Kavya, Prashanth and Saugat, another consultant who just joined us at APIS faced the interview and we got the license for one year. Teja joined the activity after both Prashant and Saugat left mid-way. He worked very hard to push it through and saw that the event was successful..

After getting the necessary approvals from the government, we rolled put the call for participation and there was huge response. We had to restrict the exhibits because of space limitations. Sidhartha College management were very helpful in offering their ground for three days, and the class rooms for conduction of the workshop.

Thanks to all the ministers and local leaders in government who spared their time to encourage the participants with their presence.

The media has covered it completely

The Hindu: Mini maker Faire

 

 

Themes of Amaravati Mini Maker Faire

3D imaging, 3D Printing, Alternative Energy, Arduino, Art & Design, Biology, Computers and Mobile Devices, Craft, Drones, Education, Electric Vehicles, Electronics, Engineering, Fabrication, Fashion, Flying & Aeronautics, Food & Beverages, Fun & Games, Health, Home, Maker space, Micro controllers, Robots, Science, Sustainability, Nature

Workshops

Several workshops were conducted in parallel. It was amazing to see the active response from the students, parents and youngsters.

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We had a wonderful media coverage

List of Exhibitors at Amaravati Mini Maker Faire

  1. 3D Paper Sculptures,    Satish Kumar Moka
  2. 3D Printing for Makers,  Technolexis
  3. Advanced Portable Refrigeration, MADHU NARAYANA and team
  4. Advanced Traffic Control System,   Santhosh Reddy Bynagari
  5. Aero-Modelling Workshop,  Anand Kishore Verma
  6. Allika – From weed to wealth,  Abdul Mujeeb Shaik
  7. ASIT::Automatic Smell Identification Tester,  T N V Vasavi Sai Lakshmi
  8. ASP(Automatic service provider),   Shivam Soubhari
  9. Automatic ambulance calling system for Vehicles,  Bikshalu K
  10. Basics of Soldering (through Mini Electronics Project),  Srinivas SG
  11. Bharat Science Kits,  Bharat Kishore
  12. Blind Stick,   Nikhil P
  13. Build Your Own Robot (Remote Controlled Car) & Develop an App to Control it,  QtPi Robotic
  14. Bumpster, Kashyap Nagarjun
  15. Chocolate Making & Cupcake Decoration workshop, Chocos Express
  16. Craftarina art house, Tiruvaipati Swathi
  17. Craftiee, craftiee
  18. Crafts from news paper, M V Subbarao M
  19. Cydee Innovative Hybrid Powered Streetlights, MONIKA JHA
  20. Cyrrup, Aswini Nunna
  21. Design and Development of E-Mobility Vehicles, Subhash Pilla
  22. Detailed Clay Modelling, Lakshmana Rao
  23. E-Bill Device, Venu Kosuri
  24. Eco Friendly Helmet, Venkatesh Penumarthi
  25. Flying fire extinguisher, Suraj Mohammad
  26. Fopple Drone Tech, A Gopi Raja
  27. Intelligent Safety System For Women By Using IoT, BHAVANA S
  28. Ishma Handcrafted Accessories, Rekha Mutyala, Vandyaa Lakkaraju
  29. Learn to Build Drones, Amaravati Drones
  30. Magnetic device repeller, Govinda Kavali
  31. MahiRuham, Chitrabhanu Nanduri
  32. Make your PCB at home!, Teck Team Solutions
  33. Nail Art– Ravi Parasa, Ravi Parasa
  34. Organic products through Natural farming, Sri Sailaja Alluri
  35. Paper Sculptures, Satish Kumar Moka, Sai Charan Moka
  36. Petals Art Studio, Tulasi Nageswari Ravela
  37. PiHouse, Hari Krishna Reddy
  38. PIR Sensor Based Motion Detector cum Alarm, Sanjya Reddy Teparthi
  39. Portable Water Filter, VENKATA SUBRAHMANYAM BALAM
  40. Pottery and Clay Modelling, Lakshmana Rao Lanka
  41. Praman Bag, Pranay Sisir Chalapaka
  42. Quadcopter UAV Based Fertilizer And Pesticide Spraying System, Katari Sai Kumar
  43. Rescue Robotics, Aliasgar Calcuttawala
  44. Sculptures from Iron Scrap, Srinivas Padakantla
  45. Semi Automatic Prosthetic hand based on voice commands, Solbots
  46. Smart Energy Monitoring, Govardhan Chowdary Yalavarthi
  47. Smart Farming, Azaharuddin Sk
  48. Social Innovation, Hemang Vellore
  49. Solar Power Monitoring System, Sampth Raghavendra K
  50. Sonic Pump, TARUN TEJA, MOGANTI SAI KRISHNA, vavilala balamanoharsai
  51. Talking Tree Robotic Teacher, Sathya Rayala
  52. Thanjavur Paintings, Srujan P
  53. The Energy and Resource Manager Aswath Raj

 

More details at : https://amaravati.makerfaire.com/

 

International Innovation Fair 2017

Summary of the PROCEEDINGS OF IIIF2017

9th – 11th  SEPTEMBER 2017, Taj Gateway, Visakhapatnam

 This India International Innovation Fair was hosted by   Government of Andhra Pradesh through AP Innovation Society. IFIA- International Federation of Inventors Association has supported it through connecting us with Innovators Associations in around 100 countries across the world. The Fair has attracted 75 participants from 30 countries other than India. In all we had 300 delegates from within India and more than 5000 visitors for the stalls.

In addition to IFIA, APCTT of ESCAP has conducted a workshop in  parallel to the Fair.

IIIF 2017 is an event planned to outreach  innovators from a wide spectrum of domains and capabilities varying from schools to colleges to researchers in institutes and organisations to inventors from villages and startups.

The session started with CEO, AP Innovation Society welcoming the guests.

IIA  was the local partner for APIS  for organising the event. It’s President Dr A.S.Rao, announced the agenda and said this initiative would help create employment through creating new enterprises. .Mr Krishnan Srinivasa Raghavan, APCTT described the role of their UN body stressing that promoting innovation is as important as creating innovation.

Highlights:
The Visakhapatnam event was announced globally in 100 countries by global networks- IFIA and APCTT of ESCAP.
Global participation of 75 from 30 countries.
300 innovations exhibited. Wide range of participation from school children (Young scientists), grass root innovators, engineering students and startups.
International workshop held by UN Organization- APCTT of ESCAP, first time in partnership with a state government.
CCS Hackathon organized as parallel event.
Awareness and excitement created in the state on Innovations.
5000 visitors in 3 days.
Visakhapatnam and Andhra Pradesh are now on radar of global innovation networks.

The event was inaugurated by IFIA President, Alireza Rastegar. He also released the NCSTC magazine containing articles published by young scientists.

Citizen centric Services Hackathon was conducted in parallel at Sunrise Incubation, IT Hill No 3, Rushikonda. Around 600 registrations were done, of which 300 were filtered for hackathon from around 40 colleges. District Collector, Sri Praveen Kumar was kind enough to grace the inaugural. Jury from NIC and ITAAP helped in judging the best solutions. The local Vizag startups community partnered with us to conduct the event.
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 Supporting Innovative Entrepreneurs and Role of Technology Transfer , an international workshop was organised by APCTT of ESCAP.
There were around 200 participants from educational institutions, research and development institutions, small and medium enterprises, grass root innovators and entrepreneurs. This workshop also had international participants including senior representatives from                           APCTT’s partner, organisations in India, Indonesia, Islamic Republic of Iran, Kazakhstan countries in Middle-East, Europe and Philippines. The aim is to boost awareness on the support mechanisms available for innovative entrepreneurs and share finest practices in cross border technology transfer from countries in the Asia Pacific region and beyond. It also focused on opportunities and challenges for technology commercialization, effective management of intellectual property rights, establishing and sustaining cross-border cooperation on technology transfer and sharing policy frameworks for technology transfer and innovation led entrepreneurship.
Minister for ITE&C , Mr Nara  Lokesh released the Inaugural issue of International Technology Bazar along with catalogue of the fair, on 9th evening.
Minister for ITE&C, Mr. Lokesh, addressed the gathering and shared the Policy framework of government of Andhra Pradesh to support innovative entrepreneurs.

The deliberations among  the innovators and entrepreneurs helped them  share their experiences and existing policies in their respective states and nations. A possibility of regional cooperation platforms for the future to support knowledge exchange and networking was discussed. The third day had the fair and exhibition open for the public.  There was however an interesting discussion that,  ‘Dr’ is used to represent and recognise doctors and phD holders, and Er to recognise engineers in few countries. But,  a system that recognizes genuine inventors and innovators, who contribute significantly in the knowledge economy and adding to public stock of knowledge was not available any where. Later, it was suggested with a proper alignment with Chartered Innovators Council it may be approved to use the title “Inv” for the inventors and innovators.

 Hon. Chief Minister Sri Nara Chandrababu Naidu gave his remarkable keynote address during the valedictory on the last day and spent nearly four hours with international and Indian Innovators. The National Research Development Corporation (NRDC), DST, GOI signed an agreement of understanding with the AP Innovation Society to help the students and start-ups in the state. IFIA memorial medal was given to Y S Chowdary, Union Minister of State for Science and Technology, which was collected by H Purushotham on his behalf. The IFIA best invention awards were given to Portugal and for Organic Disposable Shaving Brush to Madala Sowjanya from India, which were presented by IFIA President. Hon. Chief Minister presented The Gandhi Memorial Innovation Award to Bahrain, special awards to Raman and Sai Teja for generating International Technology Bazaar portal and gold awards to National and International innovators. At this event Hon. Chief Minister addressed the gathering and expressed his contentment and satisfaction meeting the innovators and inventors, with such positive attitude towards progression.
Above all, it was a wonderful experience and learning . And our state requires more such networking platforms to learn and showcase!