innoWAH! 2025-26
Shape Tomorrow's World
Join the PALS premier innovation competition where creativity meets technology
About innoWAH!
innoWAH! is an year long innovation competition, from start to finals, enabling students to develop creativity, innovation, business domain knowledge, communication and presentation skills. The participants gain a clear understanding of engineering industry practices, including rigors of documentation and compliance. It's structured in a way to encourage young minds to find solutions to problems in the society and make a lasting impact. This experience also helps the students to develop teamwork and leadership capabilities.
Theme Focus
Multi-disciplinary engineering projects with strong emphasis on core engineering
Business value addition through emerging IT technologies
Address real-time problems impacting the lives of common people and economy of the country
Innovation Focus
PALS will organize a series of Aware Webinars for Entrepreneurs (AWE) aimed at building awareness and sharing insights from industry experts on product development and entrepreneurship. The sessions will cover key topics such as Customer Discovery, Design Thinking, Lean Canvas, and more. These interventions will serve as a strong foundation for students, helping them prepare for their entrepreneurial journey and enabling them to compete in global competitions.
Team Collaboration
Each partner institute may nominate up to five teams, with a maximum of five members per team. It is recommended that teams comprise students from diverse engineering disciplines, ensuring a healthy balance of seniors and juniors. Wherever possible, institutes are encouraged to form gender-inclusive teams. All participants must be bonafide undergraduate engineering students. Additionally, each team must have a dedicated faculty mentor assigned to provide guidance and support.
Rewards & Recognition
Participating teams will undergo three stages of evaluation before qualifying for the grand finale. In the final round, projects will be classified into multiple categories, with the best entries in each category being recognized and rewarded by PALS. The finals exhibition will also feature industry experts and investors, invited by PALS to review the projects. This platform will give participants valuable market exposure, opening avenues for deserving projects to gain further rewards, recognition, and opportunities.
Competition Timeline
Mark your calendars for these important dates
Registration
Submit your team nominations
PYP Documents submission
Last date to submit the project idea, concept and design, other documents
PYP Shortlisting
Shortlisting of the projects for the cluster finals
Cluster Finals
Physical Exhibition & Evaluation of projects in several locations
Grand Finale
Final Exhibition & Evaluation of projects at IITM Campus
Resources
Recordings of the webinars and document templates
Customer Discovery
- ➔ Jobs to be Done framework
- ➔ Importance vs Satisfaction
- ➔ Value Proposition Canvas
- ➔ Customer Development Framework
Refining Problem Statement
- ➔ Problem Statement Definition
- ➔ Staying agostic of the solution
- ➔ Do's and Don'ts with examples
Ready to Innovate?
Join hundreds of students in shaping the future through innovation