TBI Juniors

Anusweta Deb, an 18-year-old, was moved by the devastation caused by the Assam floods in 2019. With her friend Pooja Das, she created affordable life jackets using plastic bottles and sacks. In 2022, they distributed 200 jackets to rescue teams during the floods in Silchar, free of charge.

Six students from the Young Tinker Educational Foundation have been chosen to take part in the NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC) 2023. This team will be traveling to the USA in April 2023 to represent India.

Mumbai student Aryahi Agarwal has launched Bella Fragrances in a bid to provide organic and affordable scents to children her age. Aryahi says that Bella Naturals has 21 notes, is safe to use on the skin.

An environment hero at age 8, Thaaragai Arathana from Chennai started diving when she was just 5 years old. She now fishes out plastic waste from the ocean to conserve marine life.

Student Shiv Kampani from Mumbai has innovated a robotic brush to clean out human waste from drains, pipes and sewers in a bid to bring manual scavenging to an end.

Navshri Thakur, a student of Girls' High School, Pipariya in Madhya Pradesh, has innovated a device that can be used to simplify household chores and save time.

Seven-year-old Aadhyaa Aravind Shankar from Bengaluru speaks of her award-winning photograph titled 'Lap of Peace' that won the Children’s Peace Image of the Year - Global Peace Photo Award.

Having learnt the tricks of the trade during the lockdown, P Renganathan, a school student from Chennai, discovered a vulnerability on the IRCTC website and alerted the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) immediately.

Aditya Banger, a resident of Bhilwara, Rajasthan, launched Trash to Treasure which recycles plastic bottles, wrappers and covers into fabric for clothes.

Nikhiya Samsher (18), a graduate of Greenwood High International School in Bengaluru has innovated an low-cost, early risk detection system for oral cancer.