City student among winners of Silicon Valley Challenge

GUWAHATI: Jishnu Baruah, a student from Guwahati has created an app to ease the burden of carrying heavy school bags for children around the country. For this innovation he has been selected as one of the 26 winners of WhiteHatJr's Silicon Valley programme.

Silicon Valley, as we know it, is the epitome of innovation, a personification that nothing is off-limits. WhiteHatJr crafted the Silicon Valley programme to reinforce this idea with kids to make accessible industry veterans and to help kids understand that nothing is out of bounds if one dares to dream.

The program entailed getting kids to create an app to solve real-life problems. The kids were shortlisted from the exhaustive list of over 7,000+ entries from across the globe, stated a release.

"The concept of getting these bright kids to interact with thought leaders was to reduce these conditional barriers that we have placed on our kids. When kids are equipped with the right set of tools to learn in environments that don't restrict their creativity, the results are always astonishing," said Karan Bajaj, Founder and CEO, WhiteHat Jr.

"It seems as if the new generation was born to learn. But what's most endearing is that these kids aren't just keen to learn but to use that knowledge to make a difference to the world they live in," said Amit Patel, Managing Director at Owl Ventures.

Twenty-six bright young minds presented their innovations to the Silicon Valley team, of which 22 were Indians and four students from the USA. The panel included industry veterans like Amit Patel, Managing Director of Owl Ventures, ArunSaigal, Co-founder and CEO, Thunkable and SuvirSujan, Managing Director of Nexus India Capital Advisors.

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