Anurudh Ganesan: VAXXWAGON
VAXXWAGON — wheel-driven vaccine refrigeration cart.
As an infant in southern India, Ganesan was carried about ten miles to a clinic only to find the vaccines spoiled by heat. Fifteen years later the cold-chain gap was unchanged, so he dismantled a refrigerator to learn the cycle and built a cart whose turning wheels drive the compressor, keeping vaccines at 2–8 °C without ice or electricity. He won the LEGO Education Builder Award at the Google Science Fair 2015 and presented at the White House Science Fair.
IP note
'Patent pending' claimed (2023); no published record.
Recognition
Google Science Fair 2015 LEGO Education Builder Award.
What this means for a student inventor in India
[Editor: 120–200 words connecting this story to the Indian route — Section 6 (any true inventor may apply), provisional vs complete specification, disclosure at fairs (Section 31), renewals, and who owns what when a school is involved. Link to the relevant MYCrave guide.]
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