A four-member team of students from St. Anthony’s College won the Impact Regional Summit of the Hult Prize Challenge 2021, making them the first from the North East to win in such a prestigious event.
The team called, ‘Team Aces’, comprises of Aushinar Dastidar (Captain), Ananya Bhattacharya, Akangsha Chakravorty and Muskan Singhania, from the Department of Biotechnology of the college.
They will move on to the next round called the ‘The Accelerator Stage’ to be held in London and represent the country in the summit to compete with teams from across the world.
Forty-three teams from all across the country as well as from Bangladesh and Nepal competed in the prestigious Hult Prize Regional Summit 2021 held in Mumbai yesterday.
The Hult Prize 2021 is an international university-level movement offered in partnership with the United Nations and is hosted and supported by Hult International Business School and funded by Swedish entrepreneur Bertil Hult and his family. It is a $1 million cash prize challenge meant for leading the youth of today to be part of a generation of global change. This year’s theme is “Food for Good: Transforming Food into a Vehicle for Change” where students are required to come up with a start-up idea based around this central theme.
It may be mentioned that the team were adjudged the second runner up during the On Campus Hult Prize NEHU challenge held in January.
