Youth is the harbinger of future creations and what better place it could be to foster And nurture the young talents of India than IIT Kharagpur, which we proudly call mother, of IIT system, a vibrant, grand institution known for its exemplary research by its faculty alumni and students. We may not be able to teach every young talent of India, but we can encourage their scientific creativity. We are glad, through the IIT Kgp Young Innovators' Program we are able to bring this opportunity to the senior students from schools all over India. May you lead India far into the futuristic world!

I felt really happy and delighted to see the first ever Young lnnovators’ Program coming into reality in our campus. Last year around November, when the Branding and Relations Cell pitched this idea to me, it seemed very novel that we will invite school children from all over the country and that we will inculcate in them the credo, the habit of innovation, to bring them to our campus and show them what we do and maybe encourage in them a desire to pursue a career in scientific research and engineering. We launched this in April, we wrote to about 10— 00 schools from around the country and we had about 200+ applications and after 2 rounds of eliminations 24 schools were selected for the finals which were held in the IIT Kharagpur campus. The word innovate basically means to alter something or to change something or to create.