Vinisha Umashankar, class 8th student from Tamil Nadu wins Swedish prize for solar-powered ironing cart design

A girl student from the Path Global Public School in Malappambadi, Thiruvannamalai (TN) has done her school proud. She has designed a mobile ironing cart, which uses solar panels to power a steam iron box.

Class 8th student Vinisha Umashankar won Swedish 'Climate Change' prize for Solar Ironing cart design  |  Photo Credit: Twitter

KEY HIGHLIGHTS

• Engineers and innovators start young and want to create usable, practical things using their knowledge

• Vinisha Umashankar of Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu recently won the Children’s Climate Prize conferred by the Children’s Climate Foundation from Sweden, says a report in The Hindu

• Though she has won a prize for an engineering design model, her heart is set on becoming a research scientist and inventing a single vaccine for all types of cold viruses

Vinisha Umashankar, a class 8th student from Thiruvannamalai in Tamil Nadu has recently won the Children’s Climate Prize conferred by the Children’s Climate Foundation from Sweden, reports The Hindu. Vinisha stunned all with her unique design of an everyday use engineering product — an innovative design for a solar ironing cart —  that will serve several causes.

Vinisha has designed a mobile ironing cart that uses solar panels to power a steam iron box. This can be powered by pre-charged batteries, electricity or diesel-powered generator in the absence of sunlight. The most important benefit of solar ironing cart is that it eliminates the need for coal for ironing. The vendors can move around and offer services at the doorstep for increasing their daily earning. For earning extra income, the ironing cart can be fitted with a coin-operated GSM PCO, USB charging points and mobile charging.

"Hats off to Vinisha Umashankar, the young girl from Tiruvannamalai in #TamilNadu for developing solar-powered cart to press clothes that will go a long way in phasing out polluting coal usage. Green energy solutions and #AatmaNirbharBharat is the way forward," tweeted Prakash Javadekar, Minister of Environment, Forest & Climate Change; Information & Broadcasting; & Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises.

Source: https://www.timesnownews.com/education/article/vinisha-umashankar-class-8th-student-from-tamil-nadu-wins-swedish-prize-for-solar-powered-ironing-cart-design/686131