Samsung India announces Team Eco Tech Innovator and METAL as “Solve for Tomorrow 2024” winners

Samsung's Solve for Tomorrow 2024 winners are Team Eco Tech Innovators and METAL received grants of Rs 25 lakh and Rs 50 lakh respectively.

Samsung Solve for Tomorrow 2024 event focuses on solving real life problems. (Image Source: Samsung)

Samsung India has announced Eco Tech Innovator and METAL as winners for this year’s “Solve for Tomorrow”, the company’s flagship national education and innovation competition.The event focuses on empowering the youth to solve real life issues and make lives better.

Eco Tech Innovator, the team from Golaghat, Assam was declared as the Community Champion winner in the School Track. The team developed an idea around equitable access to non-contaminated portable drinking water, which has received a seed grant of Rs 25 lakh to work on a prototype.

On the other hand, METAL from Udupi, Karnataka was hailed as the Environment Champion in the Youth Track for its technology for arsenic removal from ground water. The team was granted Rs 50 lakh for incubation of prototypes at IIT-Delhi. Both teams were awarded certificates by Samsung’s Southwest Asia and Shombi Sharp and the United Nations Resident Coordinator in India.

Samsung is also giving away a Smart Display Flip 75”, Freestyle projector and 10 Galaxy Tab S10+ to “Community Champion” while “Environment Champion” will get a Smart Display Flip 75”, Freestyle projector and 10 Galaxy Book 4 Pro.

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The top 10 teams, which comprised of 22 students were selected for the Grand Finale to pitch ideas and showcase prototypes to the judges. Students from across the country presented their ideas under two themes – “Community and Inclusion’ and “Environment and Sustainability”, which focused on issues like education and resource access for less privileged communities, challenges in experiential learning, digital literacy, arsenic pollution and water conservation.

Apart from the main prizes, two special awards – Social Media Champion Award and Goodwill Award with Rs 1 lakh cash reward were also presented. The company also said that each of the 10 teams received Rs 1 lakh and School Track participants were given a Galaxy Watch Ultra, while Youth Track participants received a Galaxy Z Flip6.

First launched in the United States in 2010, the Solve for Tomorrow programme is currently active in 63 countries and has engaged more than 2.3 million young innovators worldwide. This year, the participants saw a huge increase from Tier 2 and 3 cities and remote regions across the country.

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