Sai Pranav

As part of the Virtual Museum Competition, i researched on the Brahma Statue of Goa and my research on the statue and 3D design of the statue earned me a position amongst top 15 entries https://www.e-yantra.org/events/ I was pleasantly surprised to receive a Gift pack with certificate, Tshirt, a bag and board game The certificate given by https://eysrc.e-yantra.org/ is surely one to cherish

Over the last few weeks, as a part of my participation in the E-Yantra Virtual Museum competition, I have been on a journey to discover the history of one statue and its entire story. I have scoured the internet searching for leads, visited temples, talked to priests and gone around Goa to find out about this one statue. This statue is a sculpture of Brahma, a Hindu god. It is chiselled black stone and originates in the Kadamba era (12th century). It is decorated with many details, stands tall, and is bearded with Kadamba-style designs. The figure carries a ladle in its upper right Hand, The Vedas in its upper left hand. Kamandal in its lower left hand and chanting beads in its lower right hand.  Now let me walk you through my story about this statue. First, I saw images of the statue and then tried searching for information on it online. I found a few excellent articles, but those still wouldn’t give the full details. After a lot of scouring around the internet, I found one artic...

After having crossed multiple levels of testing at regional, country and finally at International level, I secured the 43rd rank at the Icode competition in Python category

Report on ‘The Goan’ https://www.thegoan.net/tg-life/%EF%BB%BFmaking-india-proud-goan-kids-play-robot(ic)s-on-international-stage/92358.html Report on TOI Goa https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/goan-students-stand-second-at-international-robotics-event/articleshow/96207801.cms Report on Goa News https://goa.news/goan-students-stand-2nd-at-international-robotics-event

Team Legogoa Axiom comprising Sai Pranav Gandhi and Viraj Marathe won the runner up(second place) position at the International MakeX Invitational Robotics competition (Starter Category) held in Bangkok, Thailand during 25-27 November 2022. Team Legogoa competed with over 72 teams from 8 countries to clinch the second place. The tournament spanned over 3 days with 4 rounds for qualification and two rounds for the championship section. The qualification round required consistent performance as the scores of all the four rounds were taken into consideration for deciding the team that qualified to the championship round. On the final day of the competition, the team Legogoa Axiom formed an alliance with a ‘TPK Robot 3’ team from Thailand composed of team members Ms Mint and Mast Pomphun to compete with 34 other teams. The day witnessed closely fought matches and Team Legogoa Axiom held its nerve to score 1460 points (just 20 points behind the winning team) to be placed second in the tally...

My Team Legogoa Axiom comprising of Viraj Vishwanath Marathe and myself has won ‘Makex 2022 Robotics competition’ Starter category held at Coimbatore on 16th of October 2022. Their team was felicitated at hands of Mr Subbiah Arunan, Project Director Mangalyaan, ISRO. MakeX Starter is a multi-tasking competition program for elementary school students aged 6-13.The competition integrates the automatic stage and the manual stage, which greatly enhances fun and participation experience of the competition. The concept of multiple missions and the alliance cooperation design fully exercises the abilities of critical thinking and strategic planning of contestants, as well as improve the ability of communication and cooperation between alliance teams. We are now selected for ‘International MakeX Robotics competition 2022 ‘to be held in Bangkok Thailand on 25-27 November 2022.

TEAM: Sai Pranav Gandhi, Vedant Abhyankar, Arya Bhandare We have noticed that the people who help us in our daily lives like the maids, drivers, watchmen and utility services staff face financial instability to money and are forced to rely on help from their employers. We researched to find out that the Government actually provides many schemes for the benefit of such workers from the unorganized sector, but they are often not aware of these schemes. So we decided to first list out the challenges faced by them: Lack of financial literacy Lack of information on Central Govt Schemes Lack of information on various investment options Zero to Negligible surplus income Lack of time to complete Govt procedures for availing Govt Schemes Absence of documents needed to apply for Govt schemes Lack of personal advisor to address queries Employers not providing help in financial planning like in case of formal sector So we decided to build an app that can address these challenges. We decided to nam...

Here is an interesting play with numbers. Take any three-digit number, for example 276, subtract its digits i.e. 276 in descending order by the digits in ascending order, e.g., 762–267 and keep repeating this process; eventually, it will reach a constant, namely 495. Try this same method for a four-digit number and it will reach the number 6174. Try the same method for six digits, and we will arrive at two constants, i.e. 54994 and 631764, and one loop. Interestingly this phenomenon was noted by an Indian Mathematician  Dr Kaprekar  in the year 1955, and these constants are called as  Kaprekar constants . To know more about Kaprekar Constant you can watch this video I challenged myself to code Kaprekar constant for all digits. I have made a code in python which finds all the 3,4, and 6 digit numbers that don’t follow the Kaprekar constant. Run the Code in Replit: https://replit.com/@Saipranavsg/Kaprekar-Numbers?v=1#main.py Link to Medium Article https://medium.com...

I have built this cool retro-styled Game “Qua-Retro.” The concept behind the game is that I wanted to build a game that one can play on Quarky-like robots. I would like to make a Nintendo switch like console using Quarky. Qua-Retro is a stepping stone towards that goal.  I built this game so that it can be played on multiple devices i.e. computer, mobile and Quarky. Video Description of the Qua-Retro Game While working on this project I realized that each device comes with its own merits, and demerits. I had to handle the following limitations to make the game suitable for Quarky. Quarky has only left and right buttons, no up and down buttons. The display is small and measures only 7×5 LEDs. It has limited coding blocks for the display control. To overcome these problems I used the IR sensors to change sideways buttons to up and down buttons. I designed games suitable for a small screen. I made complex code with the limited blocks available. To make the game playable on the mobile,...

Bebras (​ www.bebras.org ​) is an international student Computational Thinking Challenge organised in over 60 countries and designed to get students all over the world excited about computing. The challenge is a great way to learn about computational thinking and problem solving skills. The Bebras challenges are made of a set of short problems called Bebras tasks. The tasks are fun, engaging and based on problems that Computer Scientists enjoy solving. The tasks require logical thinking and can be solved without prior knowledge of computational thinking. ​The aim is to solve as many as you can in the allotted time. it was organised from 15th November-7th December, 2021. As part of this challenge my team ‘Legogoa’ coached few friends and interested ones to participate in the challenge by conducting online sessions and creating tutorial videos Bebras Explainer video Four team members from my team Legogoa secured top 100 ranks and I managed to secured 7th Rank

Ninja Fight game is a scrolling platform game that challenges one player to overcome obstacles and destroy the Enemy boss. The unique idea of this Game project is that the playing difficulty can be changed. There is a feature to select levels to 1-10. Additionally with the AI feature the game automatically recommends the difficulty based on how well the player did in the previous round. The recommendation can still be changed using the slider and the player can change the difficulty to whatever he/she wants. The following are the major features of the game which indicates the level of complexity in the code used to design the game. Play video of the game narrated by Sai Pranav Try playing this simple game View it at scratch.mit.edu The main features of this games are listed below Artificial Intelligence: The AI calculates the recommended value when the player wins by,  Prediction = Round((Difficulty – (Minutes taken * 0.8)) + (Hearts / 3)). It also calculates the val...

This is an app that I have developed, as part of the FOM (Fear/ fun of Maths) series wherein I try to simplify concepts of maths. This app solves simultaneous linear equations The app was built using MIT app Inventor platform

FARM3R PROJECT AIMS TO DEVELOP AUTOMATION IN AGRICULTURE WITH THE HELP OF ROBOTICS. Team Members: Venkatesh Dempo, Darsh, Sai Pranav Gandhi, Taksh Parekh The project was submitted to Techfest, IIT Bombay organised by IIT Bombay and WitBlox as part of ‘Young Inventor 2020’ under theme Innovation in FarmingTeam Legogoa has developed automation models with the help of Lego robotics kit for various farming operations. The automation bots are modular in nature and can be easily switched to carry out multiple farm operationsThe most important part of the project is that the entire model is based on Farm Automation as a Service model and not as Buy model. The farmer will be able to hire the robots on hourly basis just like tractor to carry out the farm operations in a easy and efficient manner.For more details on the project check out website www.legogoa.in https://fb.watch/86AqMTxqOB/

App Title:  VOX Theme:  Community Computational Action Team Members: App is built by three young kids of Team Legogoa- Sai Pranav, Vedant and Viraj Achievement: The app won the third place in youth category for Popular Choice award at the MIT Appathon 2021 App Description: VOX – Voice to All VOX (‘voice’ in Latin) is a hyperlocal app that provides a platform for citizens to voice their opinions and suggestions or their concerns about proposed projects in their community, so that the really people-friendly and transformative ideas get translated into reality and others get discarded. It is also a medium for citizens to participate in the development process by expressing their felt needs and new ideas. VOX mobile app Problem  NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard), is used to characterise the opposition of residents to a proposed development plan in their area, due to which many projects do not take off. This happens because: Opinions of citizens that are supporting the project are ...

This SCRATCH game was built by me as part of the FOM series i.e. Fear of Maths turning to Fun of Maths as submission to Google Code 2020 submission. This is a simple game to play with Pocket Money to be deposited in piggy banks and learn Algebra. The game helps understand the concept of solving Linear Algebraic equations. First screen explains the problem Second screen provides option to select the money to be deposited in the two piggy banks and solves the problem by listing all the values in a table. Third screen shows the equations for both the piggy banks. Fourth screen uses Coordinate Geometry to plot the graph as per the values of the table from screen two. The answer is in the intersection point of the Iggy values plot and Diggy values a plot The fifth screen provides a Linear Algebraic equation solver which enables user to input values as per ones choice to arrive values for X and Y. View it at scratch.mit.edu

Fear of Math & Science can often make STEM learning a miserable experience for many children and their parents too. Sai Pranav Gandhi, who is hardly 10 years old dispels quite a few myths as he demonstrates how learning Math & Science has become fun for him thanks to Robotics, his favorite play time activity. The talk was recorded in March 2020 at Kala Academy, Panaji Goa during the TEDxPanaji event

Name: Sai Pranav Gandhi Age: 13 Class: VIII School: Sharada Mandir, Panaji, Goa Achievements: 1. Conducted multiple workshops on LEGO robotics 2. Made presentations to kids on the topic ‘Learning from toys’, the first one was at the age of 6 3. Participating in Lego robotics competitions since 2018. won the ‘Most inspirational team award’ for First Lego League in 2019 and was ranked one of the top national teams for World Robot olympiad in 2019 4. Won the Regional level and National Level championship at the MakeX robotics competition 5. Won the top prize for the MakeinGoa competition in 2020 for building a unique robot. 6. Won multiple awards at school level chess and at academic olympiads. 7. Secured finalists top 5 position at the MIT app Hackathon contest. 8. Secured 7th rank at the Annual Bebras Competition 9. As part of Team Legogoa i have been part of National level winning team at Makex Robotics, second place at

I gave my first talk on the topic ‘Learning from Toys’ as part of the Project GEIT – Goans Empowered with Information Technology workshop at the South Goa District Library, Navelim, Margao. There were over 150 kids in attendance. The event was organised by my first Guru Vincent Toscano The organisers mentioned this ”Master Sai Pranav Gandhi (std. 1) demonstrating to the kids his LEGO Mindstorm EV3 programmable toys….amazing to see a new little star rise on the Goan tech horizon going by the way he commanded the audience in an interactive session!” Check out the video and pictures