Bhubaneswar – June 13, 2023 – Samsung India today announced top 30 teams in its flagship youth education and innovation competition ‘Solve for Tomorrow’. 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 2023has seen teams from across the country respond and submit ideas to help tackle problems that India faces. The competition got over 70,000 registrations from youth across 500 cities, towns and villages, symbolic of the innovation and entrepreneurial spirit of Bharat. For the second year of the CSR program, Samsung India has partnered with Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology’s (MeitY’s) Startup Hub and Foundation for Innovation & Technology Transfer (FITT), IIT Delhi.
Among the top 30 teams, 44% presented ideas around the themes of Education & Learning, 23% on Environment & Sustainability, 20% on Diversity & Inclusion and 13% on Health & Wellness. These teams represent 15 states and 1 union territory of India including Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Bihar, Odisha, West Bengal, Haryana, Rajasthan, Assam, Telangana, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Delhi.
Youth from the top 30 teams have submitted ideas to solve real-world problems around converting sea water into potable water, drinking and driving, skilling of youth, improving efficiency of solar panels and finding missing children. Their ideas also focus on early detection of many diseases in women using menstrual blood samples, mental health, food wastage, identifying diseases in crops, safeguarding teenagers against inappropriate content, and addressing gender bias in STEM fields, among others.
