Museum of Solutions (MuSO), a social initiative by Sajjan Jindal-led JSW Group, will host an initiative to showcase technological innovations developed by teenagers and help them raise seed funding from various incubators.
The not-for-profit initiative has partnered with Maker’s Asylum, a community platform for innovations, to host India’s 10 teenage social entrepreneurs and showcase their prototypes. The prototypes would be pitched with incubators for funding at SDG School, MuSO’s acceleration programme.
MuSO – which is led by Sajjan Jindal’s daughter Tanvi Jindal Shete – and Maker’s Asylum, has shortlisted 10 teenagers who would be showcasing their solutions around digital fabrication, Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), among others.
The primary goal is to harness the collective power of diverse minds and talents towards addressing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Vaibhav Chhabra, founder of Maker’s Asylum, told FE.
Maker’s Asylum has roped in United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Accelerator Labs, UNDP India, National Institute of Design’s National Design Business Incubator and UNESCO for possible funding, piloting and implementing these technologies.
“Here at MuSo, we believe that everyone can be an innovator and a changemaker. Through expert facilitation and mentoring, the SDG School programme helps young people develop their own unique abilities to tackle the world’s challenges. The SDG School brings out the best in these youngsters and gives us hope,” MuSo’s chief museum officer Michael Peter Edson said.
Some of the prototypes that would be showcased include drone technologies, robotics, clean technology, augmented reality devices to help children learn simple geometry and trigonometry, among others.
These prototyped solutions will be hosted for school students in Mumbai on March 16 at MuSO to help them interact and get inspired by these teenage socio-preneurs.
