“STEER CLEAR ”at The TECH Summit 2015 by Aryan Srivastava, Kshitij Upamanyu, Dhruv Singh, Mehr Chawla - Grade IX

Learn Today's Educational Technology Summit, 2015, “I am the Change” envisaged to be an event which is student-led.  This was the second such Summit they had organised ; the students  needed to create ,run and peer assess the Student Leadership Case Study ('Tech for Change' Project) with the self-

drawn  rubric for the Project. Every school had to form a team of students, who would identify a real-life problem and provide a solution for it, using sustainable and cost-effective technology. The solution would need to be rolled out; and the result of the study recorded by September 2015. On completion, the teams had to send their respective projects to Learn Today for documentation. At the Summit, every project would undergo peer evaluation.

The theme evolved from the belief that when students take the lead in their learning, they are more likely to concentrate on ideas around a given concept that interest them. This allowed us to engage with any topic from a perspective that differs substantially from the focus of a typical curriculum. Up to 20 schools formed a Core team from select schools to spearhead the planning process. It was the requirement of the core members to engage with students from other schools to brainstorm the programme, agenda, workshop themes, the 'Tech for Change’ Project and the rubrics for peer assessment. To help facilitate the process, many meetings were conducted at Vasant Valley School.

Our school was a member of the core group, along with 19 other schools of the NCR, for the All India technology Summit. We brainstormed and came up with a common everyday issue, which affects all our lives – “Road accidents caused by distracted drivers”, distraction being the use of mobile phones while driving. So, the technological solution provided our team was Steer Clear. There were 47 schools with displays and case studies out of the 80 that were participating.  Although we did not win the competition, but we are very proud of the fact that we completed it and have been able to test it on many phones. It would be a good idea if we could have the Delhi police use this for their “Save Delhi From Road Accidents” campaign.

Steer Clear : According to statistics, ⅗ of road accidents happen due to the carelessness of the driver. And ⅓ of those happen due to using phone while driving. This application will prevent that by not allowing incoming calls and silencing your phone when the vehicle is in motion. When a call is made, a message will be sent to the caller notifying him/her that the recipient is busy driving. Moreover, it will come with a special feature (in case of emergencies) which will allow a few chosen contacts to be put through after 2 attempts have been made.

 So now our app, STEER CLEAR IS READY AND WAITING FOR AN OFFICIAL LAUNCH. We are so excited with this product.