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• WCB Robotics Team from BITS Pilani Hyderabad Shines in Rice Business Plan Competition

  • 12 Apr 2018
  • BITS Hyderabad

  The Rice Business Plan Competition

  WCB Robotics Team from BITS Pilani Hyderabad Shines in Rice Business Plan Competition

  12 April 2018

  WCB Robotics from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani – Hyderabad Campus won the $5,000 People’s Choice Competition sponsored by SoFi in Rice Business Plan Competition. The winner was determined by more than 8,000 people who voted for their favorite team via a Facebook survey.

   

  WCB Robotics, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Hyderabad Campus got seventh place and more than $450,000 in individual prizes, including a $300,000 prize awarded by the GOOSE Society of Texas and $150,000 TiE Houston Angel Group Investment Prize at the banquet.WCB Robotics is developing window cleaning robots for cleaning the façade of high-rise skyscrapers. More than 140 corporate and private sponsors support the business plan competition.

   

  According to Brad Burke, Managing Director of the Rice Alliance, this year the competition was among the most diverse in the history of the competition and came from top universities around the globe. The teams were chosen from more than 300 entrants to compete in four categories: Life Sciences, Information Technology/Web/Mobile,Energy/Clean Technology/Sustainability and Tech Innovation. Each team made its case in 15-minute investment pitches and a rapid-fire 60-second elevator-pitch contest on the first night of the competition.

   

  Selected by 300 judges from the investment sector as representing the best investment opportunity and taking home nearly $500,000 in cash and prizes. The prizes were presented at a banquet at the Westin Galleria that concluded the three-day event, which began on April 5, 2018. At the banquet, an additional $565,000 in prizes was awarded, bringing the total amount awarded to more than $2 million.

   

  The Rice Business Plan Competition is the world’s richest and largest graduate-level student startup competition. It is hosted and organized by the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship, which is Rice University's internationally-recognized initiative devoted to the support of entrepreneurship, and the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business. This is the 17^th year for the competition and over a period of time, it has grown from nine teams competing for $10,000 in prize money in 2001 to 42 teams from around the world competing for more than $1.5 million in cash and prizes.The goal of Rice Business Plan Competition is to provide the best overall educational and entrepreneurial experience of any business plan/new venture competition.

• Higher Degree Admissions for 2018-19 academic year

  • 09 Apr 2018
  • BITS Pilani

  M.E/M.Pharm admissions for 2018-19 academic year.

  Higher Degree Admissions for 2018-19 academic year

  09 April 2018

  In the effort towards being a comprehensive (teaching and research) university, BITS, Pilani plans to admit students into various higher degree programmes (M.E/ M.Pharm) with a substantial increase in the Intake numbers at three of its’ Indian campuses this academic year (2018-19). The increase planned is around 55% more than the total number of students admitted last year to 33 different higher degree programmes across it’s campuses at Pilani, Goa and Hyderabad. This year, BITS Pilani additionally permits prospective candidates to apply for these courses with a valid GATE/ GPAT score. Almost every candidate admitted to higher degree programmes is given a teaching assistantship and/or tuition fee waiver of about Rs 13, 400/- per month, for which the student has to contribute about 8 to 10 hours per week assisting in teaching, in laboratories, etc as assigned by the department.

  
  
  

  Application portal opens on 9th April 2018 and closes at 5.00 PM on 5th May 2018. For applying online, please click here.

• BITS Pilani Students Win Case Study Challenge 2018 in Indian Road Safety Campaign

  • 16 Feb 2018
  • BITS Pilani

  BITS Pilani Students Win Case Study Challenge 2018 in Indian Road Safety Campaign

  BITS Pilani Students Win Case Study Challenge 2018 in Indian Road Safety Campaign

  16 February 2018

  BITS Pilani Students’ team “Umang” comprising of Paresh Deshmukh, Neil Sarkar, Shaily Bhatt and Siddhant Dwivedi has won the Case Study Challenge 2018 in the prestigious Indian Road Safety Campaign bagging a cash prize of Rs. 25,000 and goodies. 

   

  Indian Road Safety Campaign in collaboration with the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, Government of India and Technex, IIT BHU Varanasi organized the mega event. The Case Study Challenge Finale 2017-2018, is a quintessential platform for all specialists that offers competitive Case Study problems related to Pot Holes - Apathy towards Roads and chance of a discussion session with Shri Swatantra Dev Singh, Transport Minister, Ministry of Transport and Protocol, Government of Uttar Pradesh. The competition had two rounds. In the preliminary round, the participants had to submit a presentation of their solutions while in the final round that was held in IIT BHU on 10th of Feb 2018, the selected participants were required to present their solutions. The final round as a well-organized event was graced by Road and Transport Minister of Uttar Pradesh and many other officials.

• Healthcare Startup from BITS Pilani Wins IIT Kharagpur Business Model Competition

  • 15 Feb 2018
  • BITS Pilani

  Healthcare Startup from BITS Pilani Wins IIT Kharagpur Business Model Competition

  Healthcare Startup from BITS Pilani Wins IIT Kharagpur Business Model Competition

  15 February 2018

  GnomikX, a healthcare startup created by fourth-year students from BITS Pilani, was selected winner of the 2018 edition of Empersario, which is an internationally popular business model competition that is held annually by IIT Kharagpur. Empersario is one of the most popular competitions of its kind and attracts young startups from all over the country - the number of participants this year going over 1500. The finale of the competition took place at Ambuja Neotia, Kolkata on 4th February 2018, and saw the participation of about 15 finalist teams. GnomikX, on being selected as the winners, were awarded a prize of INR 2 lakhs.

   

  Surbhit Johri, a dual-degree student in Biology and Electrical Engineering who is one of the founders of GnomikX, presented their business model to a jury of investors and venture capitalists. He is also a Khorana scholar who was awarded a summer internship at MIT, USA. Ever since GnomikX was founded, their team has constantly worked in close coordination with the Department of Biological Sciences, BITS Pilani and research labs in MIT. Other co-founders are Raja Shukla and Aditya Chauhan, both of whom are dual-degree students in BITS Pilani, and Dr. Attya Omer, a scientist at MIT, USA. Besides winning Empersario and attracting significant amounts of funding from investors, GnomikX is also amongst the very few startups that have made it to the Nexus incubation programme, which is an ongoing collaboration between the U.S. Embassy and IC2 Institute of Technology, Texas to encourage and aid promising startups in India.
  
  GnomikX offers saliva-based genetic testing for prevention and management of lifestyle disorders such as diabetes, hypertension, and obesity. Over past few decades, India has come to be seriously ailed with these lifestyle disorders, and it has been shown that most lifestyle disorders are hereditary and caused due to the genetic makeup of an individual. This means that if they can be detected at an early stage, they can be prevented or at least delayed by small changes in lifestyle. This is where GnomikX comes into the picture as they aim to provide personalized prevention and management plans based on our analysis of genomic information of an individual.