TECH 4 SOCIAL IMPACT
Uzoorba Technologies
Founded by Vincent Toscano and his engineering college friend, Anil D'Szoua in 2016, we are a social-impact, government-recognized startup offering IT and affiliated services for global clients while creating technology-enabled livelihoods in Goan villages. We ourselves are located at the Chorao village-island in Goa (India).
Uzoorba is a fusion of 2 Konkani (our mother-tongue) words: uzo = fire, and, urba = enthusiasm/positivity. Our work reflects this essence deeply rooted in Goan ethos and value-centric professionalism, and has been fuelled all along by our simple desire to use modern technology to preserve and enhance Goemkarponn (ie. unique Goan identity) through a simple concept of Village IT that Vincent has propounded since 2012.
vangdda.org (not a NGO) covers the social-impact work of Uzoorba Technologies LLP.
Music in Our Roots
In November 2014 at Pune, Joi Barua’s soulful live rendition of his original, soft rock, soulful Assamese song, Tejimola, sparked Uzoorba to life as the culmination of our founder, Vincent Toscano's decade long quest to return back to Goa! Vincent brought Joi to Goa thrice during Dec'14-Aug'15 and met up with a couple dozen stalwarts and artists from Goan music-scape including Remo Fernandes, Schubert Cotta, Roque Lazarus and others. A pilot Konkani rock song was commissioned which got stuck on the Konkani lyrics not measuring up to Joi's expectations.
Konkanin World Music is Vincent's long-overdue project for tech-enabled promotion of modern Konkani music creation for a global audience.
Enjoy Tejimola with headphones while surfing this long page:
1. Tech Balcao (Prudent TV)
In his early days back in Goa, Vincent conceptualized, directed, recorded (partly), edited (mostly) and produced a 23-episode series during 2016-17 about Goans using Information Technology (IT) in different fields ranging from education, music, innovation, services etc. to create awareness about its benefits and need for Goa. All this work was done for free by Vincent for a token of Rs.1000 per episode from Prudent TV which hardly covered the travel costs alone. Original episodes (in parts) can be found on Prudent TV/Media's YouTube channel while the complete episodes seen below are from the Goa IT Professionals (GITP) channel.
Tech Balcao
Tech Balcao
TechBalcao#01: Technology for Goa!
TECH BALCAO #2 Project GEIT Reviving IT Education in Goan Schools 25Apr2016
TechBalcao#03: L & A Tech Pvt. Ltd.
TechBalcao#04: Inventrom
Co-founded with Sangeeta Naik by Vincent, it all started off from her elaborate comments on this 24-Jun-2015 Facebook post leading to the Nov'2015 pilot of Raspberry Pi (RPi) for educational purposes for the very first time in 3 Goan schools. In all 5 FREE vacation camps were organized till Nov'17 to provide latest technology exposure and hands-on coding with MIT Scratch (another first in Goa) to over 500 village school kids from North and South Goa. Dozens of volunteers made all this happen while generous individual and corporate donors funded the hardware & logistics.
Press Coverage
Project GEIT received significant coverage in the local press and media due to its pioneering work and unprecedented community involvement. None of this coverage was requested by us nor paid.
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3. Scheme 240
Towards 2015-end, impressed by the initial Project GEIT work, 2 Goa government Directors (Finance, and, Science & Technology) collaborated to create a new scheme for "Promotion of IT and Science Education in Rural Areas in the State of Goa." It provided Rs.55,000/- each for Computer Lab upgrades of 10 aided-schools; 5 in North Goa and 5 in South Goa. While Sangeeta Naik scouted for and identified over 20 deserving village schools across Goa through her extensive network, Vincent prepared the scheme application format for the schools including cost estimates for various Computer Lab hardware they themselves could purchase online and hand-held them through the application process for over a week till final submission to the government by 31-Mar-2016.
10 schools received their funding in the subsequent months!
After winning Goa 2012 elections Manohar Parrikar failed on his pre-election promise to GITP founders about getting IT industry into Goa, leading to their disillusionment and group's dilution till Vincent led its major revival with strong support from GITP President, Gurudev Naik, and others, especially Yash Ganthe. From memos to Goa govt., concept notes, policy drafts, manifesto, press notes, press conferences, YouTube channel, representation on govt. panels etc. Vincent did most of the work for GITP since 2014. Coupled with efforts of other groups, the resulting impact in the form of Goa IT Policy (2015, 2018), Goa Startup Policy (2017) and the overall ICT revival in Goa made all this voluntary work worthwhile.
5. Worth My Vote?
Despite its high Human Development Indices (HDI) among Indian states Goa has been saddled for decades with poorly performing politicians, rampant corruption, artificial vote banks etc. which has been driving young, educated Goans out of Goa in search of livelihoods. Continued failures of consecutive governments on this front, despite modern opportunities like IT Industry, has been the primary motivator for us to try create an objective and neutral political accountability platform since 2016.
We carried out an online market survey in the run up to the 2017 Goa Assembly elections to figure out key aspects of such a platform.
However based on the wise counsel of our advisors and well-wishers the platform plans were shelved fearing its manipulation by political forces for their vested interests in the run up to the election and instead we carried out a voter awareness campaign through our GOANS THINKING? poster series on Facebook.
Subsequently, from the 2022 Goa Assembly elections onwards, we changed direction towards voter education resulting in a 10-point litmus test shown below – based on the conventional, simple school grading system – to help a voter self-evaluate and answer the question if a politician is "Worth My Vote?" Try it out, give us feedback and spread the word about it. Thank you!
All our work has been driven by our apolitical and passionate nation-building desire or desh-bhakti, not andh-bhakti, to "enable and hold accountable" our elected politicians towards upliftment of our masses.
We draw inspiration from the wise words of the great Indian politician, Atal Bihari Vajpayee:
"Governments come and governments go. Parties appear and disappear. But India should remain and its democracy should remain eternally."
The rampant illegal mining that had ravaged Goa through the 2000s had not only caused environmental destruction for the greed of a few but had also scammed the Goa state of its due royalties amounting to 1000s of crores. Goa Foundation had exposed this scam and led court battles that had shut down all illegal mining in Goa in 2012. However the new government which rode to power on this mining scam quickly lost appetite to hold the guilty accountable leading to GMM's OreChor144! campaign in the run up to the 2017 Goa assembly elections. However their 2 main videos were in English causing a disconnect with the local electorate. Vincent recommended to GMM that these videos be translated into Konkani, and also gave his planning & coordination effort, resources and voice for free to get it done. All Konkani voiceovers for these 2 videos were recorded and edited by Orlando Fernandes' at his AngelAV Studios (Panaji, Goa) free of cost for GMM.
7. RPi-4-Schools
With 2 successive Goa governments ignoring the decade-long, pressing issue of defunct Computer Labs in >70% Goan schools – despite the effective technical solution proven in Project GEIT and presented by a GITP team led by Vincent and Sangeeta to CM Parsekar in Jan'16 – we designed a commercially sustainable holistic offering under Uzoorba in 2017 to fix it ourselves for the sake of Goa's children's future. The direct/indirect pressure resulting from our sustained work eventually got the Pramod Sawant government to provide new systems for Computer Labs of all 430+ aided schools during H2 FY2023 through its CARES scheme.
Solution
Dead CPUs replaced with low-cost, FOSS-based RPis secured with our custom-designed anti-theft SS bracket and our process-driven installation. Computer Teachers enabled on RPi with onsite demos, training needs identification, technical support, documentation and WhatsApp helpline besides a free informative Newsletter published for 25 months during Aug'19-Aug'21.
FUNDING
Our target being village schools, most faced funding constraints for their Computer Lab revival and hence were either sponsored through CSR (via their/our network) or our crowdfunding campaign to which well-wishers from India and across the world contributed (see stats given below) to make this project happen. Very few schools could arrange their own funding through PTA, Management & other sources.
ACCOUNTABILITY
Every contribution and its use was published. Every school was screened for eligibility and viability; signed an undertaking for the leased RPi kits; submitted bi-monthly survey to report usage; installation was audited at 1st year-end, and, audited at lease-end to decide on handover / extend / remove. Public Transparency and Process-driven Accountability to respect your support.
recognition
Late Goa CM and ex-Defense Minister of India, Manohar Parrikar, realized the merits of our solution, albeit late, recognizing Uzoorba among the first 6 startups under Goa Startup Policy in 2018 which led to us eventually getting Rs.10Lacs Seed Capital for this project. If not for his untimely demise, all school Computer Labs would have been revived much before 2023.
CLOSURE
While 2 years of school closures hit this project hard all installed RPis survived! When schools re-opened for 2022-23 we undertook a thorough review of all our installations and schools that paid Rs.650/RPi for our final extra service (ie. heatsink installation, FOSS update etc.) got full ownership of the RPis. 31 RPis removed from 7 schools were reused for the Goa-2-Mars project.
Inform & Inspire
For each RPi-4-Schools installation, we put up informative and inspirational posters in the beneficiary school's Computer Lab. Also a poster was put up listing all contributors who had funded the Lab's upgrade. And to bypass the Computer Teachers' incompetence (high prevalence in Goa) the RPi desktop background graphic was custom designed to directly inform students about the exciting things that they could do with the RPi.
Total Systems Revived
266
43
Total Labs Upgraded
School Students Enabled
8500+
+65%
Computer Accessibility ↑
Crowdfunding Collection
₹12,51,146
₹10,70,330
Used for Lab Upgrades
Crowdfunding Contributors
99
12
Contributor Countries
Our Work in Action
If a picture is worth a thousand words then a video is worth a million! Hence we would create small videos about our work at every school where we revived/upgraded a Computer Lab with our RPi-4-Schools solution. Our videos helped create public awareness besides providing a glimpse to the sponsors of the impact from their precious contributions to our project.
See school-wise details here.
Testimonials
The patrons and beneficiaries of our work had this to say about our work.
We are extremely delighted to see the positive feedback and smiles on students’ faces at the school where we sponsored the Computer Lab upgrade through our CSR. Superb efforts by Vincent and his team…you guys are excellent!
Prasad Sawant
CEO & Managing Partner, Buoyancy Consultants & Engg. LLP, St. Inez, Goa
Press Coverage
Our sustained work during 2017-22 in reviving village school Computer Labs was recognized in the local press which helped build pressure on Goa government to address this important matter pending for over a decade. None of this coverage was requested by us nor paid.
Our Sponsors
Besides the many individual contributors, these institutional sponsors significantly supported our Computer Lab revival work.
TEDx-Panaji2020
This talk delivered by Vincent on March 08, 2020 – in the very early days of COVID19 pandemic onset in India – explained the simple Village IT vision which had fuelled all our work since 2012 of creating ICT-enabled livelihoods in villages. Indian IT Majors, which had dismissed such a model all along, were soon to be compelled by the pandemic to adopt it countrywide with WFH for the next few years!
More importantly, this talk covered our RPi-4-Schools work till then along with our immediate next vision of using these RPis to teach Robotics in village schools through our upcoming Goa-2-Mars programme. Goa government launching CARES (Coding And Robotics Education in Schools) programme in June'20 – making Goa the very first state in India to introduce Coding & Robotics into the state curriculum – was a beautiful coincidence ;)
NOTE: This talk was delivered without any prior practice so please ignore the dry delivery & focus on the key messages in it :)
8. Goa-2-Mars
Goa2Mars is our visionary robotics education program aimed at sparking and enabling the interest of Goan village school students into S.T.E.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) education with the dream of some of these eventually becoming the very first Goan astronauts from Goa! Conceptualized and ready to launch since March 2020 it was stalled by school closures for 2 academic years (2020-21, 2021-22) due to the COVID pandemic and could be finally launched only in June'22.
Solution
Our solution centered around the RPis we had installed in schools coupled with low-cost, open-source Robotics, Automation & Electronics hardware components readily available online considering affordability for the lowest strata of school students. MIT Scratch (and its derivatives) is our primary coding platform for now with Python on Arduino expected in near-future.
FUNDING
Remaining RPi4Schools funds were moved to the Goa2Mars project with additional funding for vacation camps sought from individual/corporate patrons. All Uzoorba services towards Goa2Mars project have been free with all funding used solely for material and service expenses of external vendors.
Participating schools have not had to pay anything for Goa2Mars so far.
TEACHING
Our original plan of in-person classroom sessions was tried out on pilot basis in both the schools of Chorao during the 2022-23 academic year. And based on learnings from it we decided to shift to online teaching with Konkani+English videos via our YouTube channel since June'23. Scalability and cost effectiveness were the main deciding factors.
Each and every remaining Raspberry Pi from our RPi-4-Schools crowdfunding campaign became a part of our various Goa2Mars kits given away FREE to the schools at our camps.
These kits range from camp-specific tasks to project-specific needs to our Master Kit given away as a Prize for the Top2 teams at RoboSparkle2023 camp and 1 each given to the 2 Chorao schools in May'23.
On the Way to Mars...
Its been an uphill path with unexpected, extra dollops of challenges but we have kept moving forward one step at a time due to your support and the students' enthusiasm. Except for the marginal Research & Development charges on our Goa2Mars Master Kit, all our work towards organizing the camps, hardware planning & supplies for these camps, school sessions, online teaching videos etc. has been done free of cost with the expenses being solely borne by Uzoorba from its earnings on other IT services.
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As our RPi installations crossed 25 schools by Jan'20, using the installed RPis to teach Robotics & Automation to the school kids was the logical next thing to do with a vacation camp planned for the Summer2020 school holidays.
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A 20-lesson plan with a project-centric approach was put together by our experts along with a teaching kit comprising of 30+ hardware items.
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To enable Goan school kids to aspire for STEM-powered dream careers this programme was aptly named, "Goa to Mars" or Goa2Mars.
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COVID19 pandemic completely disrupted our Summer2020 plans.
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In the meanwhile the Goa2Mars kit grew to 70+ items then 100+ items and eventually to 222 unique items based on our ongoing R&D funded solely by Uzoorba, not the crowdfunding balance from RPi-4-Schools programme.
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After the pandemic Goa2Mars was welcomed by both Chorao schools for their first in-school academic year 2022-23.
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An introductory session was done for all students of Std.6-9 about the fascinating world of robotics.
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Interested students took our online Aptitude Test and over 40 students were identified from both schools for Goa2Mars.
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Once a week after-school 1-hour sessions were conducted for these students on different weekday in each school.
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Students learnt GPIO programming in MIT Scratch to control over a dozen different input (sensors) and output (actuators) devices.
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We are very grateful to leaders of both Chorao schools for their whole-hearted support of this work: Ma'am Anne James, Headmistress of Dayanand High School, and, Fr. Americo Rodrigues, Manager of St. Bartholomew's High School.
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5 half-days camp was conducted during Oct 18-22, 2022 with additional 2 evening sessions on demand from students.
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Altogether 75 students, including the regular 40+ Goa2Mars students, from both Chorao schools attended this 3-day camp during Oct 15-18, 2022.
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Students learnt to assemble and program a RoboCar controlled with MIT Scratch on RPi.
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Hands-on technical skills learnt: wire-stripping; using multimeter; building circuits with breadboard; RoboCar assembly, circuitry and programming etc.
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Soft skills learnt: handling pressure & failure, team work, listening etc.
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This as well as our subsequent 2 camps would not have happened without the rock-solid support of Fr. Americo Rodrigues, Manager of St. Bartholomew's High School.
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Immediate impact of the preceding 2 steps was the unprecedented number of Robotics & Automation projects for ScienceDay2023 (Feb 28, 2023) at both the Chorao schools.
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Goa2Mars-powered projects included Musical Fountain, Line Follower Robocar for Warehouse Material Movement, Fire Engine Robocar with remote live video monitoring & control, Wordle game using 7-segment displays, and, Automated Irrigation System.
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Goa government CARES team, which attended the Science Day programme at one Chorao school, was impressed by these projects.
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Mr. Santosh Gaonkar (retired Headmaster and National Awardee Science Teacher), based in Chorao, was instrumental in the overall success of this Science Day.
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LegoGoa Axiom Team conducted a demo of their high-end robot at St. Bartholomew's High School on 27-Feb-2023 for parents and students. See Facebook Post.
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Subsequently LegoGoa sponsored 8 students from both Chorao schools to accompany them along with Vincent and one more Chorao parent for the FTC India Championship at Pune during March 11-12, 2023.
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The Chorao students got an unprecedented opportunity to witness an international-level robotics competition live and to interact with national and international teams about their amazing robotics and automation projects. See Facebook post for details.
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These boys also got to splash and have fun in the swimming pool of Vincent's Pune apartment complex. See Facebook post.
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3 half-days camp on Robotics and Automation was conducted at Chorao during April 3-5, 2023.
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156 students, including 21 TechBuddies from Chorao schools, and 30 Teachers from 29 schools from North Goa attended.
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Mr. Santosh Gaonkar (retired Headmaster and National Awardee Science Teacher) inaugurated the camp.
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Each school team was provided with a hardware kit with components to do Musical Fountain and Robocar projects.
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Teams that completed their Robocars got to play RoboRace and RoboWars games, and won prizes.
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The Top2 teams won trophies and certificates.
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All teams got daily travel allowance (Rs.500/school) and participation certificates.
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Goa Dept. of IT, Persistent Foundation and a handful of Goan IT companies funded this camp.
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Goa IT Minister, Rohan Khaunte, visited the camp on the last day and encouraged the attendees.
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Till date it remains the largest Robotics camp anywhere in Goa!
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Designed as continued learning programme for the students who attended the summer camp, all instructions were now published via our YouTube channel, Goa2Mars.
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Target project for this programme was Autonomous Fire Engine (AFE).
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12 schools, mostly from the summer camp, joined this programme each getting a complete hardware kit free of cost. This included a RPi 3B+ kit as well. New schools who joined this programme got the RoboSplash2023 camp kit, RPi 3B+ kit and the AFE kit.
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Teacher Josefina Cardoso of St. Bartholomew's High School (Chorao) coordinated school registrations and all kit distribution logistics.
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Till Nov'23 a total of 33 YouTube videos were published covering the basics, working and usage of different sensors & actuators, and assembly of the AFE.
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School-wise progress was tracked using an especially designed Google Form.
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The RoboSparkle2023 camp was expected to be the culmination of this programme.
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3 full-days camp on Robotics and Automation was conducted at Chorao during November 15-17, 2023.
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111 students and 23 Teachers from 20 North Goa schools attended.
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Each school team was provided with a hardware kit, including certain add-ons, having all required components for an Autonomous Fire Engine project.
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As each team's Fire Engine progressed they played RoboRace, RoboSoccer and LineFollower games, and earned points.
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Top3 teams won trophies, certificates and our Master Kit each.
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All teams got daily travel allowance (Rs.500/school) and participation certificates.
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Camp expenses related to the prizes (ie. Goa2Mars Master kits) and the camp hardware were covered by our crowdfunding collection while all other camp expenses were shouldered by St. Bartholomew's High School.
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Camp was inaugurated by Mr. Ramchandra Garde, Educationist and ex-Vice Chairman of the Goa Board of Education while our Mayem MLA, Mr. Premendra Shet, was the Chief Guest for the prize distribution ceremony.
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We are ever grateful to Mr. Santosh Gaonkar for making certain critical last minute arrangements for this camp's success.
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The road ahead...
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Due to our other work priorities, the extreme summer heat and the renovation work of St. Bartholomew's High School hall the RoboSplash2024 was not organized.
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The Autonomous Fire Engine (AFE) not being completed during RoboSparkle2023 remains a priority to be addressed with a plan to organize a final competition centered around it during the 1st term of the 2024-25 academic year.
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About 20 new instructional YouTube videos about the AFE are being made for the participating students.
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Cash prize budget = Rs.50,000/- ...can increase as we get more sponsors.
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Beyond the AFE specific concept/theme/project-based competitions will be regularly organized.
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Instructional videos about all major components in our Goa2Mars kits will be continue to be published on our YouTube channel.
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Our mission of sparking Goa's very first astronauts while maintaining pressure on Goa government's CARES team to scale up their effectiveness and impact will continue...
Robotics Camps Organized
3
31
Schools Attended Our Camps
Students & Teachers
390+
96
Various Kits Given FREE!!
Total Funding Collection
₹5,66,816
₹4,93,449
Used for Camp Expenses so far
Sponsors & Contributors
26
761
Total Items in G2M Master Kit
Press Coverage
This coverage is based solely on our Press Notes issued at the end of each camp. None of this coverage was paid for.
Our Sponsors
Besides the many individual contributors, these institutional sponsors significantly supported our camps.
An Extraordinary
Success Story
A migrant tile-fitter's daughter attended her very first robotics camp at our RoboSparkle2023 (Nov'23) due to the initiative of her Computer Teacher, Maya Kamat. No one would have imagined then that, Usha Kumavat, Std.8 student of Progress High School (Panaji) would bring glory to India 6 months later by winning 1st place in the Senior category of Codeavour5.0 in Dubai thanks to her hardwork and the relentless efforts of her teacher, Maya! We are glad to have played a little role in promoting the crowdfunding campaign to fund their Dubai trip besides arranging their lodging, boarding and travel for FREE in Dubai through the kind generosity of our Chorao friend, Manoj Gaitonde, an established businessman in Dubai.
9. IT Services
After 2 Goan IT startups failed to deliver on our 2 software development projects during 2015-16, we decided to take it onto ourselves to do it through implementation of our Village IT model by setting up a small Software Development Centre at Vincent's house at the Chorao island in Goa.
After a gruelling 6 month renovation and setup of the workplace we began our IT Services on 03-Oct-2017 with 3 fresher employees hired more for their aptitude and character than their IT skills.
Defying the prevailing norm of quickly maximizing employee productivity on easy-to-learn but dated technologies on run-of-the-mill client projects we made a bold decision to work only with the latest Web and App technologies on challenging client projects investing significantly into our team's competency development.
Customer Reviews
We strive for customer delight that reflects in their words…
Uzoorba experts quickly understood our requirements and had quality, meaningful and valuable interactions with our teams at every step. With their diverse IT backgrounds, Team Uzoorba gave us practical insights, solutions and plans, and proved to be a valuable partner to jumpstart our digital transformation journey while ensuring timely and cost-effective delivery. [c.2021]
V. A. George
Executive Chairman, Thejo Engineering Ltd.
Chennai, India
Technologies Used
40+
17
Projects Completed
Customers Served
15
4
Customers' Countries
Our Best Work
Despite having to develop our capabilities on latest technologies from scratch with the related issues, we made sure we always delivered to our clients more than they paid us for, be in terms of the magnitude & nature of contracted work, recurring changes, connecting them to opportunities etc. The quality levels we accomplished are reflected in our best work seen in this short video.
We are grateful to all our customers for the opportunities to serve them.
Team Speaks
Invariably all our employees (9 nos.) and interns (7 nos.) came into Uzoorba as freshers with elementary, or no, productive skills and learnt the latest technologies on the job through the resources and expert mentors we arranged for them. It changed their lives for the better!
Listen to the testimonials from some of them in the videos below...
Precious Dream Paused...
Just when we had summitted the thresholds of delivering world-class software design and development services, the pandemic's WFH for 10 long months took a toll with client payments pending for 6 months yet employee monthly salaries being paid in full without fail, expected forex and corporate projects delayed, Goa government's Startup Promotion Cell's pending reimbursements nowhere in sight, employee productivity taking a hit from the isolation besides WFH temptations etc. Still to keep things going we began Digital Transformation consulting services and delivered client-delight on our very first assignment for an Indian Manufacturing company.
However by Dec'20 our situation had reached a critical point and the decision had to be made to pause our IT Services dream by end of Jan'21. We scouted and found IT Partners for our clients and ensured smooth handover to them. Employees were actively enabled in their job hunts through our network and the latest tech skills they learnt at Uzoorba paid them rich dividends in their new jobs.
With a heavy heart we paused our Village IT dream of "world-class IT services from villages" on 31-Jan-2021 but we look forward to opportunities to revive it someday. Till then...
Press Coverage
Public recognition of our unique Village IT work model in the local press and media. None of this coverage was requested by us nor paid.
Thank You!
While we pride ourselves on the fact that not a single politician nor their affiliates anywhere can ever claim that we sought any personal/undue favors for any of our Uzoorba work, we are greatly humbled and ever grateful to the 100s of people who supported us and our initiatives. We are especially indebted for the valuable technical guidance to our team from 4 wizards, including Niloday Tamhankar while others are not being named for now due to their ongoing employments.
Original Inspiration
Writing a short biography of his father's purposeful life for his 1st death anniversary in July'09 defined the starting milestone in Vincent's return to Goa and everything that resulted as explained above.
Tell Us...
We firmly believe in factual and fair credit to others as much as we do to our own selves for all the work explained above. Incase you notice any factual discrepancies above then drop us a note in the Chat box so we can verify and update it here.
Thank you!