It has been announced that "India Engineered", a project led by Krishna Raj SR, and his team Jyothi Jennifer Kurian, Manu Mukundan and Abulize MV, have been voted the winner of the first phase of Lenovo's Do Network. The winners battled it out against 9 participating teams to emerge as India's most promising technology inventors for their project on empowering Engineering students through online tutorials and sponsorships. The team will receive the grand prize of US$25,000 from Lenovo.
Amar Babu, Managing Director, Lenovo India, said, "We are pleased to announce 'India Engineered' as the winner for the first phase of Do Network in India. I also congratulate the other top 9 teams for their stellar performance. I would like to thank all the participants and the youth of the country for the excellent response that Do Network has received."
"It has been a long road for these very passionate Doers and it has been fantastic to see such a worthy project evolve and emerge. The Do Network has provided us with the rare opportunity to support, guide and nurture some really innovative and brilliant Indians and I am sure it will continue to inspire many more great projects in future," said Rajan Anandan, Managing Director, Google India.
"The past three months have been intense but hugely rewarding. We were excited to have a platform like The Do Network to share our ideas, highly respected mentors and resources to develop them, and we now look forward to implementing the idea in India. It has been a privilege to be part of such a meaningful campaign and to be selected the winner out of so many other deserving projects!" said Krishna Raj SR, Project Lead, India Engineered.
The Do Network comprises a series of four 90-day contest cycles, with different themes and thematic challenges introduced for each cycle. The second cycle of the competition is due to start later in the year.
