Failures can be catalyst for growth

Uttkarsh Chaurasia, team leader, Rishabh Dhenkawat, Aditi Katoch, Mohammad Nomann, Navdeep Singh Rathore, Sitaram Rathi and Rishabh Verma,  the six-member team from the National Institute of Technology won the Smart India Hackaton (SIH-2020) by creating  solutions to provide a “second eye” to blind people using artificial intelligence. The Smart India Hackathon organised every year by the Ministry of Human resources Development in India, and provides students a platform to solve some of the pressing problems that the society encounters regularly.

Sinhgad Institutes Team Cypher from Sinhgad Academy of Engineering, Pune participated in the Smart India Hackathon 2020 and emerged as joint winners with team Ignited Mindz in the hardware edition.

Thousands of aspiring young students fail and not to be disheartened as Elon Musk once said: “ I hate when people confuse education with intelligence, you can have a bachelor’s degree and still be an idiot”.

Akshay Atkari, instrumentation engineer who was pipped to the final by IIT Jodhpur in the grand finale of Smart India Hackathon 2020. He was rejected by potential employers like Schneider Electric, Johnson Controls, ENVEA Pvt Ltd, Aker Solutions, Worley Parsons, Hind Terminals to name a few.  Sending potential employer a messy CV projecting a rotten first impression, is the perfect way to get rejected even before the interview stage. Writing a decent CV and personal statement can seem a terrible chore. It is imperative to understand the “essential attributes”, as most people make the obvious mistake of not reading the candidate requirements before applying for the job.

Often things are not going the way you were expecting them to be. Failures are key part of life though, and if you use them as a catalyst for growth, they can surely benefit in the long run.

 

Despite all this failures Atkari  with a positive vibe and new beginning, is determined to bounce back in 2022 as comebacks are stronger than the setbacks.