Mr. Ashok Rao, Chairman TiE Global along with Mr. P.K. Agarwal, President of TiE Global from USA gave away the awards.

The team comprising Jaspreet Singh and Navneet Singh of RIMT Institute of Engineering & Technology, MandiGobindgarh, bagged the first prize for their FERobotics – flexible and economic robotics – to help small scale industry to automate their production at a low cost.

The second winners are Budding Bees, Chandigarh Group of colleges, Landran, providing hobby activity classes for 18 months to four year old children. Sonali and ShivamSrivastava of SUS Tangori, presented business plan for Code Learning in a fun way that was adjudged third.

TiE Chandigarh-Punjab Chapter provided Rs.50,000, Rs.30,000 and Rs.20,000 in prize money to the three winners respectively, who would also get the opportunity to represent India in the international business plan competition being hosted by Rice University, USA.

Ashok Rao, Chairman of TiE Global, USA. Complimented the Chapter for developing meaningful programs in the region and encouraging entrepreneurship, especially setting up of five Entrepreneurship Nodal Centers in the Punjab Technical University’s constituent and affiliated engineering & management colleges.