Grade 10 students at Shiv Nadar School Noida, Gurugram, and Faridabad showcased cutting-edge technical prototypes that solve real-life challenges at Colloquium 2025 held at Gurgaon on Dec 19. The coveted first prize went to team Vasuki from Noida campus, comprising Vedang Darbari, Daksh Malik, Devansh Bajpai, Armaan Sen Dave and Mahish Bhalla.
They designed robotic swarms (snake robots) as critical disaster rescue responders for rapid scanning and increased human survival which won them an academic excursion to CERN. CERN is a European Organisation for Nuclear Research, one of the world’s largest and most respected centres for scientific research. It is the site of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest and highest-energy particle collider.
Other innovations that received a special mention from the jury include ArrhythmiX, WildLink, SpectraSafe, Elevaid and Cyan.
The projects underwent a rigorous two-tier evaluation process, initially by a sub-jury, followed by a presentation and discussion, and later assessed further by an external jury. Team SafeStride from Noida, secured second place. The team developed an AI-powered mobility and vision assistance system supporting independent navigation for visually impaired users.
Colloquium is Shiv Nadar School’s annual, project-based capstone challenge for Grade 10 students, rooted in its integrated IT curriculum. Through Colloquium, students identify real-world social and community problems and design technology-led solutions using robotics, programming, animation, and design thinking. Working in teams, they research, build, and refine their ideas before presenting them to an internal and external jury, with projects evaluated on relevance, innovation, technological insight, and clarity of thought.
Arti Dawar, CEO of Shiv Nadar School, congratulated Team Vasuki for their outstanding project and commend all participating students for demonstrating how innovation, when guided by values, can create real-world impact.
