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The process to select five students to tour Silicon Valley in March and meet IT wizards such as the founders of Facebook and Google, as promised by Kerala Chief Minister Ooomen Chandy, has begun.
The students – of schools, engineering and arts colleges – who wish to participate in the selection process will have to upload their innovative ideas on Youtube.
Startup Village, which is entrusted by the State Government to choose the students, has formally launched the competition named ‘SV Square’ (Startup Village to Silicon Valley), a press release here said.
Asha Jadeja of Rajeev Motwani Foundation from Silicon Valley, which is partnering with Startup Village in this initiative, formally announced the competition during her visit to India’s first telecom incubator here at the Kinfra Hi-tech Park.
As part of the competition, which formally opened on February 1 and ends on Feb 10, students need to upload video spanning two to three minutes on their innovative projects/ideas on the Youtube.
A jury chaired by Anil Gupta of IIM, representing the academia, and former Nasscom president Kiran Karnik, representing the industry, will select the winners based on these videos.
Applications will be accepted from February 1 to 10 at Web site www.svsquare.in.
The winners will be announced on February 15 and the selected students will travel to the US in March.
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