Travelling via train during a festive season in India is a herculean task. The reservation counters, railway platforms and trains are heavily crowded with people confronting many challenges & travelling thousands of kilometers to reach home.The TI Innovation Challenge (TIIC) India Design Contest (IDC) train received a similar response on September 30th with over 3,100 student teams conquering a lot of technical and non-technical hurdles for submitting the proposal and boarding the TIIC train. We thank all the students and the faculty mentors for submitting a proposal in TIIC IDC 2015.
The increased traffic
As always, the response to TIIC IDC has exceeded our expectation. We have also received an enthusiastic response from our first time participating select colleges in Sri Lanka.
Few interesting facts about TIIC IDC 2015
- ~2x increase in college participation across all the regions (North, East, West & South).
- 74 colleges have submitted >10 proposals to TIIC IDC 2015
- >2,000 faculty members from 654 colleges have participated as faculty mentors in TIIC IDC 2015
All the teams who have successfully uploaded their project proposal for the Qualifying Round of the contest are entitled to receive an e-certificate from Texas Instruments India University Program. These certificates will be issued by November 2014.
The results
Just as TTE(Train Ticket Examiner) verifies the tickets in a train, our panel of experts sifted through more than 3100 proposals to shortlist the teams for the Quarterfinals. The reviewers paid attention to a number of aspects, such as completeness of the proposal, innovation, usage of TI parts, organization of report etc.
“I am amazed by the ideas which the students have submitted for the TIIC IDC 2015. The quality of work is evident from in-depth market analysis, which has helped the students to address the root of the problem. With proper guidance and mentorship, a few of them has the potential to become a prominent product in the market,” commented one of the reviewers.
After over a month of rigorous review process, our reviewers were able to select 1,209 teams for the Qualifying Round of the contest. [Refer to the link at the end of the article]. Congratulations to all the shortlisted teams! These shortlisted teams will continue their TIIC Journey and will receive components from TI to realize their idea and convert it into a working prototype.
We thank all the teams who could not make to the next round of the contest for submitting the proposal to TIIC IDC 2015. We hope that writing the proposal itself was a good learning experience. We encourage you to submit a proposal next year and stay connected with TI India University Program either by registering on my.ti.com and by joining us on Facebook!
The journey ahead
We are in the process of procuring TI parts for all the shortlisted teams. These teams will receive their components by second week of December 2014. In the meanwhile, we encourage the teams to start working on several aspects of the project like design and simulation of circuit diagram; study of datasheets and the EVM user guides, familiarization with the development environment; procurement of non-TI components etc.
There are 300+ online trainings from TI [click here] to help you kick-start with your project. Further, to help the teams with the technical as well non-technical queries we plan to setup an online forum for the students participating in the TIIC IDC 2015.
The final submission of the reports and the YouTube video is due on February 16, 2014. These reports and the YouTube video will be reviewed against the quarterfinals evaluation criteria. We have archived the YouTube videos from previous editions of the contest in a playlist here.
Once again congratulations and best of luck to all the shortlisted teams! The journey continues.
