Mangalore :The Sixth Edition of SSTH 2019 was held at Sahyadri college with a mission to promote innovation and entrepreneurship in the South Kanara region

Mangalore: The Sixth Edition of SSTH 2019 was held with a mission to promote innovation and entrepreneurship in the South Kanara region. SSTH is an initiative of the young creative minds in line with 'Start-up India Mission’.

The event was inaugurated by Prashanth Prakash, Co-Founder - Erasmic and Founding Partner of Accel India.  In his inaugural speech, he expressed how delighted he was to be part of this gigantic scientific event where young and budding minds are given an opportunity to innovate on ideas and exhibit their talent.   It is a path-breaking programme for future innovators at a school level, he stated.  He called them next-gen or future innovators. India, a country which has benefitted a lot from Information Technology, can now proudly boast of such talented young minds, which will be the future of India.   Prakash was optimistic that these students will move on to be future scientist and innovators.  

The program receives over 400 solutions from over 1200 students out of which 40 ideas are selected with a mission to convert them into products and start-ups. Students will be showcasing nearly 350 diverse projects of their own on SSTH 2k19 at Sahyadri Campus.

SSTH 2019 came to an end with a concluding ceremony graced by Dr. Bharath Shetty Y, MLA of Mangaluru City North;  Prashanth Prakash,  Ananth Ravi, Former Senior Vice-President, Reliance Jio Infocomm; Uday Birje,  S Sridhar, Chethan Venugopal,  Madan Padaki, Subramanian Sivakumar, Manjunath Bhandary, Chairman-Bhandary Foundation; Dr. R Srinavasa Rao Kunte, Principal and Ashwin Shetty, Manager-NAIN Incubation Centre.

During the concluding ceremony,  Manjunath Bhandary expressed how impressed he was with the social impact projects exhibited by the students. He said the solutions to the social concerns are in the hands of these children and selected projects will be hand-held at Sahyadri level and beyond. He said SSTH Projects were the seed to a Big Tree yielding fruits for all.

Prashanth Prakash was then felicitated by the dignitaries on dais and was congratulated for being appointed as the Chairman of Karnataka’s Start-Up Vision Group. Participants then came forward to share their opinion on the daylong event and expressed how fortunate they felt to be a part of this event.