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About Ignite

ignite.pngIGNITE is an annual national competition, conducted by National Innovation foundation - India ( In association with Honey Bee network, SRISTI, CBSE & others) to harness the creative and innovative spirit of school children.

Students are invited to send their original creative technological ideas and innovations for the same.
Why the IGNITE contest?
Creativity among children is almost in-born, every child is creative, degrees may vary, but not the basic manifestation. Then what happens during the growth and maturation? Why should children stop asking basic questions? Why do they agree to do repetitive science projects instead of being original? Why do they learn to live with unsolved social and professional problems? We should not allow our children to live with such problems rather urge them to come up with solutions to these. We want to promote originality, creativity and innovative spirit among our children so that when they become leaders of our society, they ensure an imaginative, inclusive and an innovative future for the country. We want our children to be more sensitive to the problems faced by not just them and their families or neighbours but also other socially disadvantaged sections of the society.
What is invited for the IGNITE contest?
Original creative technological ideas and innovations of the students OR/AND Any technological idea/innovation that solves any daily problem be it household, of porters, labourers, or the like. In addition, during their vacations or otherwise, the students are encouraged to look for other people who come out with innovative machines/devices or solve day to day problems using their creativity. Similarly they are also encouraged to document and learn traditional knowledge practices from their elders in their family and neighbourhood. The purpose is to expose them to the rich traditional heritage we have, facilitating its transfer from generation to generation. The students submitting the maximum number of properly documented entries (Innovations/Traditional Knowledge) to the schools (which would forward them to NIF) or directly to NIF would be given appreciation certificates from NIF. For each innovation/traditional knowledge practice spotted and documented by the student, he/she will be credited as being the 'Scout' for that particular innovation/traditional knowledge in records
  • The students are encouraged to submit as many entries as possible.
  • Students can submit entries in group provided each member of the group contributes significantly to the development of the idea/innovation/project. Groups where teachers/parents are included will not be considered.
  • Students from any background arts, commerce etc can participate in the competition
Exam dates: N.A         Registration deadline: 31st August 

Eligibility Criteria for Ignite

Gender & Age  Both 
Region Indian students 
Classes  Students up to class 12

Awards & Recognition for Ignite 

  • The name of the winners will be announced on October 15, 2014. The awards will later be given at his convenience by Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. October 15, the birthday of Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, is celebrated as Children's Creativity and Innovation Day by NIF.
  • There is no fixed number of awards. It will depend upon the number of quality entries that we receive and which we can recognize in the function.
  • There will be an exhibition of  ONLY  the awarded projects/ideas/innovations. Working or illustrative models and/or posters in case of ideas would be required for the same
  • NIF will provide to and fro train travel support to the student(s) and one person accompanying the student(s) from the student's home town to Ahmedabad. Local hospitality will be provided by NIF in Ahmedabad. Any other person(s) accompanying the award winner or any other person interested to visit the exhibition would have to bear all their costs (travel/stay/food) themselves.
  • All practical and useful ideas/innovations may be given financial and mentoring support. In the deserving cases, patents will be filed in their name at no cost to them. It is also possible that some of the ideas might attract entrepreneurs and these may get licensed for monetary consideration

Awards & Recognition for Ignite 

  • The name of the winners will be announced on October 15, 2014. The awards will later be given at his convenience by Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. October 15, the birthday of Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, is celebrated as Children's Creativity and Innovation Day by NIF.
  • There is no fixed number of awards. It will depend upon the number of quality entries that we receive and which we can recognize in the function.
  • There will be an exhibition of  ONLY  the awarded projects/ideas/innovations. Working or illustrative models and/or posters in case of ideas would be required for the same
  • NIF will provide to and fro train travel support to the student(s) and one person accompanying the student(s) from the student's home town to Ahmedabad. Local hospitality will be provided by NIF in Ahmedabad. Any other person(s) accompanying the award winner or any other person interested to visit the exhibition would have to bear all their costs (travel/stay/food) themselves.
  • All practical and useful ideas/innovations may be given financial and mentoring support. In the deserving cases, patents will be filed in their name at no cost to them. It is also possible that some of the ideas might attract entrepreneurs and these may get licensed for monetary consideration

Submission process for  Ignite

Submit By Email
Submit Online
Mail to the following address
IGNITE 2014
National Innovation Foundation - India
Satellite Complex, Premchand Nagar Road,
Jodhpur Tekra, Satellite
Ahmedabad 380 015, Gujarat
Entries will be received till 31st August, 2014
There is no particular format for submission. However, the following should be clearly mentioned - name, age, class, school name & address, home address & contact number, title of the project/idea/innovation, detailed description, diagrams/sketches/photos if any and a simple declaration that the project has been done by the student himself/herself without guidance from teachers/parents. If required later we may request a declaration from school and/or parents that the project of the student has been unsupervised.
It is advisable to attach drawings / sketches of the project. These would help our experts to properly understand and evaluate the submission.
Which submissions will not be entertained? 
Simple essays, write-ups on problems like population, corruption, global warming, unemployment etc will not be accepted as well as common projects/concepts (from text books/other make yourself books) like hydel power project, rain water harvesting, water level indicators, vermi compost/ vermiwash, letter box alarm and other alarms, using turbines to generate energy, using solar energy to do various things, electricity generation through waste batteries/dung/transport/waves or earthquake alarm. Projects guided by teachers/parents. Teachers and parents are specifically requested not to be suggestive to the children and let them come up with some creative idea of their own. In case, the teachers or parents have an interesting idea(s) they can send it to us separately

Address & Contact details of Ignite 

ADDRESS:  Any queries may be addressed to NIF at 

Email: ignite14@nifindia.org or 
Telephone numbers +91-79-26732456 / 2095, 
Fax: +91-79-26731903 or 
Toll Free No.: 1800 233 5555

Official website: IGNITE

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