Aarush Vir Banerjee Kharbanda

STEM & Engineering Projects

FIRST Global Challenge

UAE First Global Challenge (FGC) Robotics Team

In 2025, I was selected to join the UAE FGC Robotics Team. Over the past few months, I have worked alongside my teammates to design, build, and program a robot for FGC 2025. Our robot design won the 'Best Innovator Award' at the FGC Asia Cup 2025 held in Kazakhstan and our NTE project was awarded Top 10 globally (190 teams) for the FGC World Championship.

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Piezoelectric Road

Piezoelectric Roads Research

In 2024, I independently researched energy harvesting using piezoelectric roads. I conducted a literature review and published the full paper titled "An Environmental, Economic, and Engineering Analysis of the Construction of Piezoelectric Roads" on SSRN.

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EcoScan+

EcoScan+

As part of the Masdar Youth4Sustainability Hacakthon 2025, I led a team of 5 to build EcoScan+. EcoScan+ is a webapp through which a user clicks a photo of their waste, a machine learning algorithm classifies the waste, and the user is instructed where and how to properly dispose/recycle the waste. On Pitch Day we ended up winning First Place (12 teams) and the cash prize of 20,000AED which we are using to build EcoScan+ into a startup.

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