HT Bureau
GUWAHATI, May 02: Over 500 college students participated in the roadshow organized by Samsung India at Gauhati University, around the second season of Samsung’s ‘Solve for Tomorrow’ innovation competition. Samsung recently announced its partnership with the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology’s (MeitY’s) Startup Hub and Foundation for Innovation & Technology Transfer (FITT), IIT Delhi for the second season of the national education and innovation competition Solve for Tomorrow.
Notably, the top three teams will win Rs 1.5 crore to turn their ideas into action while other participants who reach the top 30 and top 10 will be rewarded at various stages of the program. The second season of Solve for Tomorrow is inviting applications from youth in India aged 16-22 years under the themes of Education & Learning, Environment & Sustainability, Health & Wellness and Diversity & Inclusion. The last date of application is May 31, 2023.
On the occasion, Hyun Kim, Corporate Vice President of Samsung Southwest Asia, said, “At Samsung, harnessing the power of youth is a priority for us. This is what drives us and our global CSR vision of ‘Together for Tomorrow! Enabling People’. Giving youth a voice in real-life issues affecting communities around them allows them to see firsthand the change they can create in the world. With Samsung Solve for Tomorrow, we want to give youth that opportunity and also play our part in strengthening the innovation ecosystem in the country, taking forward the vision of the Government and our vision of Powering Digital India.”
