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𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐬 𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡! 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐉𝐀𝐍𝐔𝐒 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐞𝐬! 🛰️

Congratulations to Team JANUS from BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, for winning the Best Design Award and securing a Top 5 overall finish at the 2026 IN-SPACe CanSat India Student Competition, organised by IN-SPACe in association with ISRO!

The team comprises Adithiya Sreenivasan, Tejas Khamkar, Anant Garg, Sri Shreya Raja, Niva Vishal Barde, Eeshan Joshi, Karna Vishal Reddy and Vedansh Somayajula. Out of 115 colleges that applied, 47 teams qualified for the final launch in Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh, with only five teams winning an award.

The challenge was to design and build a 1 kg CanSat (miniature satellite) that could be released from a drone at an altitude of 1 km, deploy its descent system autonomously at 600 m, and transmit live flight data throughout its descent.

After six months of designing, building, testing and troubleshooting, Team JANUS delivered an award-winning performance.

Congratulations to the entire team!
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BITS Pilani wishes you a Happy Diwali! 🪔✨ May the festival of lights bring joy, prosperity, and happiness to all!

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𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐚 𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐥 𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐦 𝐚𝐭 𝐁𝐈𝐓𝐒 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡! 

Meet Arnav Kulshrestha, a final-year student at BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, and Founder & CEO of NovAtom Labs.

Driven by a vision to automate scientific discovery, Arnav has built an AI-powered semiconductor discovery platform that has screened over 100,000 candidate materials and identified up to 17 novel materials.

With a collaboration with SCL Mohali, research pilots at BITS and international universities, NovAtom Labs is working towards an ambitious goal: building Self-Driving Research Labs in India.

The founding team includes Satyagni Bhattacharya and Khushi Singh (Founding Engineers), Pranay Sharma(founding engineer) with Prof. Karthik Venkateshan (Technical Advisor and Community Outreach) and Prof. Parikshit Sahatiya Sahitya (Scientific Advisor).

Incubated at a TBI, NovAtom Labs is working to put India at the forefront of AI-driven semiconductor research.

A bold idea. A BITSian founder. A vision to transform scientific discovery.

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BITS Pilani Expands 100% Tuition Fee Scholarships to Top 1,000 BITSAT Rankers for the Full Duration of Their Degree

Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani has announced the extension of its tuition-blind admissions initiative from the top 500 to the top 1,000 BITSAT rankers from the coming admission year through BITSAT 2027. The decision doubles the number of students who can join BITS Pilani with the assurance that tuition will not be a barrier.

Eligible candidates with an annual family income of up to Rs. 20 lakhs will receive a full tuition scholarship for all four years, subject to maintaining a minimum CGPA of 7.5 at their respective campuses. The scholarship is built into the admission offer, and students do not need to apply for it after joining, so top performers can choose BITS Pilani based on aspiration and opportunity, not affordability.

In 2026, the number of eligible top-500 rankers who joined BITS Pilani increased by 50%, and the BITSAT score needed to be in that group went up from 314 to 324. The effect spread beyond the students the initiative was meant for. Eligible students ranked 501 to 1,000, who were not covered, also came in larger numbers, and joiners from the top 1,000 as a whole rose by 50%.

"Commenting on the announcement, Prof. V. Ramgopal Rao, Group Vice Chancellor, BITS Pilani, said, "The initiative builds on a long tradition of scholarship-led support. In the academic year 2025-26 alone, BITS Pilani disbursed about Rs. 190 crores in scholarships, fee waivers and fellowships across its First Degree, Higher Degree and Ph.D. programmes. Of this, Rs. 101 crores went to First Degree (undergraduate) students through merit, merit-cum-need and international student scholarships, enabling one in every four students across our campuses to receive financial assistance. The Institute intends to keep expanding coverage progressively, with the long-term goal of tuition-free admissions for all."

Who: Top 1,000 BITSAT rankers (up from top 500) with annual family income up to Rs. 20 lakhs

What: Full tuition scholarship for all four years, included in the admission offer

Condition: Minimum CGPA of 7.5 at the student's campus

From: The coming admission year through BITSAT 2027

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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐈𝐓𝐒 𝐆𝐨𝐚 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬! 🌴⚡💙
From inspiring classrooms to unforgettable campus moments and state-of-the-art infrastructure, there’s always something that makes BITS Goa special.

See you all on the OPEN DAY, October 31 at BITS Goa! 💙

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