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Paras Chopra

21 Oct, 9 tweets, 3 min read

🎉🎉Announcing September winners of the Gaur & Chopra Escape Velocity Grants.

Their ambitions include:
• Building a self-driving 🚗 car for India
• Being 1st Indian woman to win 🥇 Olympic gold
• Making 🧪 science videos in Kannada

Total seven winners. Profiles below 👇

@sia_steel

1/ I and @sia_steel started giving a no-strings-attached grant of Rs 50k to ambitious people under 25 for whom this money can change their life.

We started 3 months back and so far, we've awarded this to 18 people.

If you're young, please apply here: invertedpassion.com/escape-velocit…

2/ Winners for this month:

🚗 Sainadh Chityala wants to build a self-driving car for Indian roads.

He's passionate about physics and writes a publication about tech and its role in the future of human civilization: semisentient.medium.com

3/ 🥇 Smriti Prabhu is a national-level rifle shooter.

Her only goal is to win a gold medal for India in Olympics and become the first woman to do so.

This grant will help her upgrade her rifle so she has a better shot at her goal.

@augfrank

4/ 🧾 Sowyma is due for her final CA exams but due to covid-related financial stress has to take up a full-time job.

This grant (which is sponsored by @augfrank) will help her take a part-time job instead and focus on studies to finish her CA with top grades.

5/ 🧪 Shriya Shankar makes free maths educational content in Kanada.

It's unique because it reaches an audience that's not comfortable with English:

This grant (sponsored by an anonymous person) will help create such local language videos on science.

6/ 🌳 Sarumathi is an electrical engineering graduate who is passionate about environment conservation and biodiversity protection.

With this grant (sponsored by an anonymous person), she will be able to pay fee for a masters course in environment conservation.

7/ 🏫 Vineet runs a school for underprivileged kids in a village near Allahabad, UP

200 kids from surrounding areas get primary education from him

With this grant (sponsored by an anonymous person), he will buy a laptop + projector to upgrade quality of education for these kids

8/ That's it for this month. (I wrote 7 winners in the first tweet, but it's 6 winners).

We are not able to award a grant to all deserving applications. We still have ~35 unfunded high-quality shortlists.

If you want to sponsor a Rs 50k grant (now or in the future), DM me.

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