My
Dear Student Friends,
Greetings!
This is Dr. Ravi Saripalle, Founder, Inspire to Innovate (i2i) Storytelling
Movement. Welcome to “Letter
to Student Series- Volume 3 and Issue 10”. Hope you enjoyed reading my
previous letter They are available at http://i2itm.blogspot.in/ and Video Message series is
available at https://www.youtube.com/user/Indianrichtalent. The goal of these letters and video
messages are to inspire, educate, engage, entertain and empower the students and
make them Future Ready.
Padma Awardee Story Series-Episode 4-
V.Nanammal, 99 Years Old India's oldest Yoga teacher Tamilnadu, India. : The 99-year old Yoga teacher, trained
over one million students in 45 years. Yoga keeps our body, mind and soul
connected, healthy and peaceful. Are you ready for Yoga? Are you doing any
physical exercise? We all need to be inspired by Nanammal. Request you to
listen to her amazing life story at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGe7YMv7A9E
and get
inspired!
Do You Agree for "Time Bank"
Concept, or more specifically "Service Bank" Concept in India? Would You
like to Promote this idea?: Time bank is a reciprocity-based work trading system in which
hours become the currency. You have certain skill and you render some
service to particular community and bank those hours. In response, you will get
another service (skill) for the same equal hours which you banked without paid
or being paid! What a wonderful concept designed by Prof Edgar Cahn, an
American professor of Law in 1980. Today it is the need of hour, especially to
the aged people. During their young age, they can do some service, account
those hours in a bank and in return, they will receive equivalent service (hours)
when they really need it (during sick, old age etc). We need to design this
program effectively with the help of Government. This concept promotes social
justice, equality, harmony and peace in the society. Hope you all agree with me.
Looking forward to see some of you start this Service Bank in your respective
communities/ /locations. To more about Time bank, please do visit https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/time-bank.
IIT Roorkee is developing drones to
make Train Journey Safe: IIT Roorkee developed unmanned aerial vehicles to monitor rail tracks.
They are getting replaced with erstwhile trolleys pulled by workers. This
process helps in during extreme weather and while working in remote places. IIT
Roorkee is developing artificial intelligence based software which analyses
these drone images and takes appropriate decisions. It saves crores of rupees.
Thank you IIT Rookee for developing such a great innovation and helping Indian
Railways ! To read more, visit:
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Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa, 12 Years
Old, second youngest person ever from Chennai to become a Chess
Grandmaster: There
is another record to this Child Chess Prodigy! Infact at the age of 10 years,
10 months and 19 days, Rameshbabu had become an International Master—the
youngest in history. He had already achieved his first GM norm in the World
Juniors 2017. Thank you Better India for publishing this inspiring news. To
read more, please visit https://www.thebetterindia.com/147245/chennai-praggnanandhaa-chess-news/
Maharashtra makes it Compulsory to
Use Plastic Waste to Lay Roads :
This is the need of
hour as plastic waste is becoming big menace to the environment. Government is
making all steps to use plastic waste for the construction and repair of
bituminous/ asphalt roads. Infact it has been proved that plastic-asphalt tar
gives more longevity, better water-resistance and less maintenance when
compared to conventional materials. India produces about 25,940 tonnes of plastic waste every day.
Fifty per cent of plastic waste
is single-use. Generally 1 tonne plastic is used per kilometre. If we can improvise
this technology, all roads can be built using plastic-asphalt combination.
Though it is currently little costlier than conventional roads, but still it
gives lot of advantages. To read
more, please visit https://www.thebetterindia.com/147071/maharashtra-compulsory-plastic-waste-road-construction-pwd/https://www.indiatimes.com/news/india/delhi-is-the-largest-contributor-to-india-s-25-940-tonnes-of-plastic-waste-every-day-and-govt-is-just-sitting-idle-340186.html
Sanivation, a social enterprise is
transforming human waste into a clean, affordable fuel in Kenya: Andrew Foote, Founder of Sanivation,
transforming fuel industry in Kenya. This company collects human waste from all
householders and processes it using a solar thermal technology. They have
pending patent for this. After that they convert it to charcoal-like briquettes
which can be used in cooking and domestic heating. The interesting
environmental innovation in this case is, these briquettes contain lower-carbon
and becomes long-lasting alternative to charcoal. They produce 1/3 of the
carbon emissions of conventional briquettes. Interesting alternative right?
This company produced more than 70,000 tonnes of briquettes which approximately
saving more than 6,000 trees. It is also potentially averting diarrhoea. Kenya's
charcoal market is worth of $1.4bn. Foote is tapping this market. Thank you
Foote for establishing transformative energy enterprise. Thank you Positive
News for publishing this inspiring enterprise's story. To Read more, https://www.positive.news/2018/economics/social-enterprise/31394/bricking-it-turning-human-waste-into-clean-fuel/ https://www.positive.news/2018/economics/social-enterprise/31394/bricking-it-turning-human-waste-into-clean-fuel/
IIT Roorkee students develop
inflatable helmet like airbag: It is an interesting innovation again
by IIT Rookee students! This helmet can open up in less than 100 milliseconds
of impact! Marvelous product right? This has been developed by 3 BTech
students. It is made of Kevlar, a synthetic fibre generally used to make
bullet-proof jackets. They are cheap compared to international helmets (Rs2000-3,000
compared to overseas that cost between $300-600). The traditional helmets
safeguard only skull fractures but this can also protect from internal brain
bleeding. It can absorb peak crash acceleration (kinetic energy absorbed and
slowly releases it) upto 4 times. Great Job Team. Wish you all the best. Thank
you HT for publishing such an inspiring innovation. To Read more, please visit https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/iit-roorkee-students-develop-inflatable-helmet/story-mZpNONfpZ3vWxjeY5Ee4TL.html
High School Students developed an App
to detect Plant Diseases: Shada Mehdi and Nile Ravanell, high school students, developed an app
which can detect plant diseases. This app is called as PlantMD. They used
open-source machine learning library for data programming - TensalFlow. They received
dataset from PlantVillage, Pennstate University. They studied thousands of
cassava plant images and developed a model. Good job team. Thank you techcircle
for publishing such an insightful article. To Read more, please visit https://techcircle.vccircle.com/2018/06/25/this-app-uses-google-s-machine-learning-platform-to-detect-plant-diseases
Dear Students, Hope you completed Future readiness
assessment. This is to help you to plan your life better and make you relevant
in the context of 4th Industrial revolution. Please take this assessment every
month without fail. It acts like reminder to 5 important activities- Inspire
yourself through positive stories, get mentored from your role model, develop
your natural intelligence, manage academics and do physical activity. Request you
to answer the following five questions and calculate your Future
Readiness.
1. I read / hear stories
of amazing people
(A) weekly once (10 marks)
(B) monthly once (5
marks)
(C) Irregular
reading (2 marks) (D)Not Interested
(0 marks)
2. I write letter
/ mail to my mentor (other than parents) for guidance (professional /
personal)
(A) every 6 months (10 marks) (B) yearly
once (5 marks)
(C) Irregular writing (2 marks) (D)Not Interested
(0 marks)
3. I practice my passion
or natural intelligence (to know your
intelligence https://goo.gl/vgyD54)
(A) weekly 4 hours (10 marks) (B) weekly
2 hours (5 marks)
(C) Irregular practice (2 marks) (D)Not Interested
(0 marks)
4. I manage my academics
with consistent percentage or grade
(A) A Grade and above (10
marks) (B) B Grade and
above (5 marks) (C) C
Grade or below (2 marks) (D)Consistent
Failure (0 marks)
5.I do physical
activity and maintain good health
(A) weekly 4 hours (10 marks) (B)
weekly 2 hours (5 marks)
(C) Irregular practice (2 marks) (D)Not Interested (0 marks)
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Check
Your Score and Title
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I wish you should be either
Performer (your score should be between 40-50) or Challenger
(your score should be between 25-40). You should not give any scope to be Lounger (relaxed) with 10-25 score or Laggard
(slower than desired) with score less than 10.
My Dear Friends, Appreciate your valuable time. See you
in my next letter. Thank you for giving me this wonderful opportunity. You can also
reach to me at sdindia2020@gmail.com. I am happy to respond to your
letter.
With Best Wishes,
Dr.
Ravi Saripalle
About Author: Dr. Ravi Saripalle is Founder of Inspire
to Innovate (i2i) Storytelling Movement and Director, Center for
Innovation, GVP College of Engineering (A), Vizag, AP, India. As part of Inspire
to Innovate (i2i) Storytelling Movement, Dr.Ravi is trying to instill
inspiration through spreading positive stories of amazing people in the form of
short stories, embedding them in the form of letters (epistolary form) and
sending them to thousands of schools, colleges, universities districts
administration across India. Also conducting Storytelling Workshops in select institutions.
Providing customized mentoring to inspired students. Dr. Ravi is having 18
years of experience in Industry, Consultancy, Training, Mentoring and Research.
Prior to this current mission, Ravi worked with Wipro Technologies for more
than a decade. Ravi can be reached at sdindia2020@gmail,com or http://i2itm.blogspot.in/ or https://www.facebook.com/RaviSaripalle
Previous letters are available at http://i2itm.blogspot.in/
Videos https://www.youtube.com/user/Indianrichtalent
Disclaimer: The goal of this i2iSM letter series
campaign is to inspire students / youth through storytelling and develop
innovative leaders to build strong nation. In this process, I have taken
several data points from various websites, NEWS articles, books, videos etc. I
sincerely thank all the editors for providing such an insightful stories and
information. To the best of my knowledge, I tried to acknowledge all the
sources. I sincerely apologize for any omissions, grammatical mistakes and
hurting any reader’s sentiments. I request all the readers to understand the spirit
behind this effort. This effort doesn’t involve any commercials. Letter series
is for free distribution.
