As Hyderabad continues to evolve as a leading technology hub, the city is also navigating the challenges of rapid urbanisation, including river pollution and growing volumes of urban waste. Addressing these issues requires innovative thinking, local insights and a generation of young changemakers equipped to design solutions with lasting social impact.

To nurture this mindset, Samsung India hosted a specialized Design Thinking Workshop for 236 students at the Sreenidhi Institute of Engineering & Technology, Hyderabad, under the fifth edition of its flagship Samsung Solve for Tomorrow initiative. The session introduced participants to human-centric Design Thinking principles, empowering them to deeply understand community needs, identify local challenges, and engineer purpose-driven, technology-led solutions.

The workshop is part of Samsung Solve for Tomorrow’s nationwide outreach across 100 cities in 2026. The programme encourages young innovators aged 14–22 to transform grassroots observations into scalable ideas across themes including AI, healthcare, education, sustainability and sport-tech.

Drawing inspiration from the challenges already existing around them, students in Hyderabad shifted their focus to the city’s rivers. “The real danger in our rivers isn’t the plastic we can see; it’s the microscopic pollutants that stay hidden until the damage is already done,” said A. Sharanya Rao, a third-year Electronics and Communication Engineering student at Sreenidhi Institute of Engineering & Technology. Her solution monitors water quality in real time, automatically alerting authorities the moment contamination crosses safe limits.

At the same time, in order target municipal waste management, fourth-year student V. Jyoshna engineered an intelligent dustbin that automatically segregates waste at the point of discard. She pointed that recycling often fails the moment food, plastic, and paper go into a single bin together, and by automating segregation right at the start, her team aims to drastically improve urban recycling rates.

As Samsung marks 30 years in India, the massive expansion of Solve for Tomorrow highlights the company’s position as a definitive leader in youth development. By nurturing entrepreneurial talent, this purpose-driven initiative directly partners in India’s growth story, contributing to national priorities like Atmanirbhar Bharat, Skill India, Digital India, and Startup India.

Applications for Samsung Solve for Tomorrow 2026 remain open to individuals and teams aged 14–22 until July 3, 2026. To register your idea, visit www.samsung.com/in/solvefortomorrow.

At an education and innovation roadshow organized by Samsung India in Hyderabad young college students came forward and identified problems that people and society are facing in the state and the country, pledging to Solve for Tomorrow.

Students in Hyderabad said they want to solve real-world problems such as limited access to education, language barriers in learning, excessive pollution, manufacturing and agricultural inefficiencies, lack of healthcare support, limited agricultural knowledge, among others. They said they require a platform such as Samsung’s Solve for Tomorrow education and innovation competition that can guide and support them in turning their ideas into action and help transform people’s lives.

Nineteen-year-old Vardhini Bandapelly saw Solve for Tomorrow as her chance to take an idea she has had on digital education of primary students to the next level.

“Getting a chance to work on the ideas for a better tomorrow is something that is empowering to me,” said Vardhini, who studies engineering at Guru Nanak Institutions in Hyderabad.

The event, which was organized to talk about Samsung’s global CSR program Solve for Tomorrow, was attended by over 500 students in Hyderabad alongside young innovators from the city – Dr. Satyanaryana Kuchibhatla, co-founder, Parisodhana Technologies that works in the field of healthcare and wellness products, Mr. R Shanmukha Rao, innovator, who has worked towards making complex agricultural equipment accessible and affordable to small farmers/land owners and Mr. Shrikanth Reddy, Data Scientist and Founder, Hala Mobility, which works in the space of sustainable mobility.

These innovators, who currently run successful social enterprises, spoke to the students about their experiences of success and failure and their vision to transform communities around them.

“Young innovators have a crucial role to play in society. They are the ones who can convert ideas into a reality and with Solve for Tomorrow, their ideas will have wings that no one can clip. They’re only going to fly higher and higher. This is a perfect platform for bright young minds of Hyderabad,” said Dr. Kuchibhatla.

The inaugural edition of Solve for Tomorrow is inviting applications from youth in India aged 16-22 years in the areas of Education, Environment, Healthcare and Agriculture. Youth can send in their ideas to participate in the program till 5 pm on July 31, 2022.

Application website: http://www.samsung.com/in/solvefortomorrow

So far, over 7,000 teams from across the country have registered for the innovation competition in which three national winners will get mega support of up to INR 1 crore and mentoring support for six months to take their ideas to the next level under the expert guidance of IIT Delhi.