Plaksha University Unleashes Innovation At Falling Walls Lab

Plaksha University hosted Falling Walls Lab, a global platform for students, researchers and professionals to showcase innovative ideas, promoting global recognition and impact. Vaishnavi Rathi, a second-year student at Plaksha, has won a competition at the Falling Walls Lab Plaksha, showcasing her creativity and problem solving skills. She designed an AI-assisted learning platform to address inattentiveness and ineffective learning among students. The platform, which uses active learning techniques, has the potential to increase retention rates to 90 per cent, which shows how teaching enhances learning.

Falling Walls Lab Plaksha finalists and their institutions, are :

· Ishan Narayan, CSIO CHANDIGARH

· Shubhangi Bhardwaj, IISC BANGALORE

· Swapna Pahra, CSIR-CSIO CHANDIGARH

· Vaishnavi Rathi, PLAKSHA UNIVERSITY

· Eshani Parulekar, PLAKSHA UNIVERSITY

· Sridhar P, School of International Biodesign, AIIMS, New Delhi

· Samyucktha G, PLAKSHA UNIVERSITY

· Vidushi Garg, Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore

· Supriya Sarkar, PLAKSHA UNIVERSITY

· Arsalaan Alam, PLAKSHA UNIVERSITY

· Varun Arora, PLAKSHA UNIVERSITY

· Bharat Jain, PLAKSHA UNIVERSITY

· Shivank Joshi, PLAKSHA UNIVERSITY

· Divith Narendra, PLAKSHA UNIVERSITY

· Poonam Adhikari, Postgraduate Govt College, Chandigarh

· Aaniranjan Saraf, IIT, Ropar

This is a great chance for our students to develop their pitching skills and practice giving presentations in front of live audiences. Working in collaboration with Falling Walls to impart these skills to our students has been a delight”, Dr Brainerd Prince, Director, Center for Thinking Language and Communication, said.

The 16 finalists presented their pitches in front of an esteemed jury. The jury consisted of the following:

· Mr Dharam Vir - IAS (Retd.), Chief Secretary (Retd.), State Election Officer (Retd.), Haryana

· Prof. Keya Dharamvir - Professor of Physics, Punjab University

· Prof. Arun Grover - Former Vice-Chancellor, Punjab University

· Prof. Prakarsh Singh - Chair Professor (Economics), Plaksha University

· Ms Pallavi Jain - Founder, Chief Strategist, Plaksha University