Tata Steel's talent hunt for India’s next student innovators called ‘Mind Over Matter’, witnessed the participation of students with path breaking ideas. Teams with the best entries were selected by Tata Steel to join them at Jamshedpur, to execute their ideas and to proof the concept, in an industrial set up.

Through their summer project, the students were also mentored by the research and development (R&D) team and manufacturing experts, and had access to state of the art equipment and facilities.

A campaign was run across engineering colleges in India which was followed by the launch of a microsite, a youth portal powered by Tata Steel, which featured information about the talent hunt. Social networks and direct e-mailers were also employed to spread the word.

To encourage further involvement and participation, a Google hangout was conducted with Sumitesh Das, Chief Global Research Programmes. According to Das, the Mind Over Matter initiative was born out of a study which was done in house by a team in Jamshedpur.

Every year, around 40-50 students from various engineering colleges throughout India work on challenging summer intern projects in the R&D and Scientific Services division and bring in a lot of freshness and diverse perspective.

Chief Guest Sanjay Chandra, Chief R&D and Scientific Services at Tata Steel said, Mind Over Matter will be a great platform for students to gain hands on experience at Tata Steel, wherein they can showcase their innovative ideas. This collaboration of the best minds and a corporate will provide the much needed impetus to innovation in the nation.

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