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Hyd girls design non electric water pump
Students of Sri Gayatri Junior College – Girls, Bachupally, Nirupama, Shruthi Priya, Aishwarya, Anunitya and E Ramya were adjudged winners of Teenovators 2014-2015 for their project \'Eco-friendly mechanical pump\'. The competition organised by Manipal University, was held in around 600 schools for five months from September across the country.
Students of Sri Gayatri, Bachupally are Teenovators 2014-2015
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Hyderabad: Students of Sri Gayatri Junior College – Girls, Bachupally, Nirupama, Shruthi Priya, Aishwarya, Anunitya and E Ramya were adjudged winners of Teenovators 2014-2015 for their project 'Eco-friendly mechanical pump'. The competition organised by Manipal University, was held in around 600 schools for five months from September across the country. Around two lakh students participated in the contest that provided young minds a platform to showcase their creative and innovative skills.
The girls from Hyderabad bagged a cash prize of Rs 5 lakh along with the title ‘Teenovators’. The finals of the competition were conducted this week. The judges selected the winning project from among ten in the fray for the final. These teams were trained and mentored by experts from Dell, GE Global Research, Microsoft, Intel, Nvidia, CSIR and CMR IT.
The winning project aims to reduce farmers’ dependency on electricity for irrigation. Presently, electricity is a mandatory resource for irrigation and farmers have to make do with insufficient supply. To address this issue, the team developed an eco-friendly mechanical pump, based on two principles of physics; the repulsion of like poles of magnets and the restoring force of a spring.
The implementation of the two principles together helps create pressure difference and thus pump out of water. Bhanu Potta of Microsoft Devices, Microsoft, mentored the project and helped the girls innovate the pump. Speaking about the motivation behind the project, Shruthi Priya said, “Water irrigation is very important for agriculture. There are frequent power cuts and farmers face lot of problems due to this. So in order to help the farmers, we thought of making a pump which does not need electricity.”
The team took 16 days and Rs 4000 to construct the working model of the mechanical pump. “Teenovators proved to be an important milestone in our life. It has given us a sense of responsibility towards the society and has motivated us to develop projects that will have an impact on the society," an excited Anunitya said.
The team is confident that with the right guidance and support, it will be able to make its project readily available to the farmers. "The buck doesn’t stop here. With the help of ideas and guidelines suggested by experts from Manipal University, we will work towards making our project market-ready,” Anunitya shared. “The market price of the mechanical pump would be around Rs 8,000 to Rs 10,000. We would like to thank the Manipal Institute for this opportunity and faculty members of our college for their help and support,” Shruthi Priya said.
By:Navin Pivhal
