Name: Susant Pattnaik
Place: Odisha, India.
Record title: Youngest inventor and social entrepreneur.
Susant Pattnaik from Odisha, India has been recognized as the youngest inventor and social Entrepreneur.
His work has been selected and published at a young age of 17 years by MIT Technology Review in TR-35 category, Boston, USA, 2010 for the invention Susant’s Breathing Sensor Apparatus.
He has been awarded by many prestigious awards like INK- Fellow 2010 as Inventor, Intel IRIS- 2010 Awardee and Intel IRIS Best Popular Invention- 2010 Awardee, NASA Awardee- 2011, DLF- Pramerica Spirit Of Community Awardee- 2011, Displayed at Rastrapati Bhavan in presence of the President Of India Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patel, 2010 by NIF, IGNITE 09 (National Innovation Foundation) Awardee and received award as the first prize by Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam- 2009,
Also IGNITE 08 (NIF) Awardee for other invention Accident Proof Technology, KVPY Fellow- 2009 through SP- Basic Sciences, Armaan Fellow- 2011 (for empowering disabled people), NCSC- Awardee- 2009, 35th Jawaharlal Nehru National Science (NCERT) Awardee- 2008, CBSE National Science Awardee- 2008, Recognized by Institute Of Physics, Orissa, 2008 etc. He has also started a social enterprise which is working for the welfare of physically challenged people.
