Idea Storm is annual business model competition organized by E-Cell (entrepreneurship cell) at IIT Roorkee at its flagship event E-Summit (https://www.esummit.in). IITRHF sponsored cash awards for a total of INR 1 lac (https://www.esummit.in/sponsors).

Over 30 IITR teams showcased their business, vision, and novelty, of which top 15, adjudged as the best, got mentor ship from various angel investors, venture capitalist, and industry leaders, and these 3 finalists were awarded IITR Business Plan Competition prize.

Second Prize: Work Like This
The idea is to prevent back pain by posture correction. This is done by two means. One to track the posture by a small electronic device and the second by a deep learning algorithm to do the same by data from the camera of laptop only.

Third Prize: Ark
Embarked upon the journey of targeting significant loads of untreated floral waste and preventing its dumping and polluting the aquatic systems, ARK aims up-cycling the floral waste to make useful consumer goods, the first one being the ARK incense sticks, that are processed from the flowers collected from dargahs and temples. Currently, we are working in collaboration with an NGO "The spinal of youth" based in Kaliyar, a town near Roorkee, where we collect the waste flower from the Kaliyar Dargah, and teach the local village women to make incense sticks.

Prizes: First: Rs 50,000    Second: Rs 30,000    Third: Rs 20,000

IIT Roorkee Event Managers: Sid Garg, Pranay Jain & Vaibhav Khandelwal                                                                                                                     

Awards made possible by a generous grant from Mr. Raj Singh (EE, 1968)