Alumnus Apoorv Shankar is one of the five winners of the AdamStart COVID-19 Challenge. In April 2020 AdamStart launched a global call-out for young change makers to submit their sustainable business ideas which tackled the coronavirus pandemic. There were over 1000 participants across over 30 countries who participated in the COVID-19 Challenge.Mr.Apoorv Shankar is currently an engineer-turned-product designer who loves building hardware products that are easy to use. He has created the ‘Hand-Key’, an innovative product which is a sliding handheld clamp device which helps to open doors, push buttons on ATM machines and many other daily tasks, without touching potentially contaminated surfaces. Because its contact surfaces are made out of brass, it decontaminates itself within 4 hours. Mr.Shankar hopes to scale the product globally.
He obtained his M.Des. degree fro the Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing, IISc, in 2017.
Source: https://adamstart.com/covid-19-challenge-winners/
