Innovation Labs
Dedicated workspaces, equipment and seed funding for student-led projects in AI, robotics, IoT, sustainable tech and biotech. From idea to prototype in one semester.
Flagship Program
RNSIT · Student Innovation Council
We don't just study
the future.
The SIC program turns RNSIT's sharpest minds into builders, founders and researchers — through hands-on labs, industry mentorship and real-world impact.
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Innovation✦ Research✦ Entrepreneurship✦ Industry Mentorship✦ Open Source✦ Patents & Papers✦ Innovation✦ Research✦ Entrepreneurship✦
01 — The Vision
A campus where ideas become products, papers and companies.
The Student Innovation Council is RNSIT's flagship program for builders. We bring together the most ambitious students across disciplines — engineers, designers, scientists — and give them a workspace, a budget, a mentor network and the freedom to fail fast.
From AI and robotics to sustainable tech and biotech, every SIC project is built to ship — not sit in a drawer. Our teams have filed patents, published in international venues, won national hackathons and founded startups, all before graduation.
150+
Active student innovators
32
Projects shipped
11
Patents filed
8
Startups launched
02 — What We Run
Four tracks. One mission.
Mentorship
1:1 with founders, researchers and faculty.
Research
Paper publishing, conference travel, patent filing support.
Hackathons & Showcases
48-hour builds, demo days, industry-judged pitches twice a semester.
Startup Incubation
From prototype to company — legal, funding and go-to-market guidance.
03 — In the Wild
The work, up close.
Robotics & embedded systems
Hardware Lab
Cross-discipline squads
Team Build
AI, web & product
Software Studio
Fabrication & prototyping
Workshop
04 — Voices
"SIC didn't just give me a lab — it gave me a community of people building the future alongside me. My first patent started here."
AK
Aanya Krishnan
SIC '23 · Now ML Research @ IISc
05 — Milestones
Built, step by step.
2021
SIC founded at RNSIT
Launched as the institute's flagship program to systematize student-led innovation.
2022
Indo-German research collaboration
Joint paper with TU Munich on edge-AI for agriculture, presented at IEEE ICRA.
2023
8 student-founded startups
From campus-built prototypes to operating companies, with combined pre-seed funding of ₹4.2 cr.
2023
11th patent filed by SIC teams
Cumulative patents filed by student innovators, with two granted and one licensed to industry.
2024
Smart India Hackathon — 2 national wins
Teams from SIC took top honours in the AI and Agriculture tracks at SIH, the country's largest student hackathon.
Ready to build?
Apply to SIC —
cohort 2025.
Applications open for RNSIT students across all branches. Bring an idea — or just the hunger to build something that matters.