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Brahma of Goa

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...

Success at Icode Global Hackathon 2022

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

Press mention for the International success at MAKEX 2022

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

Goan kids shine at International level Robotics competition

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...

Crowned National Champions @MakeX 2022

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.

Aawaaz: Every Voice Counts

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...

Coding Kaprekar Constants

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...