Fellow:Srikar Naredla

Serving as UIF Since: Spring 2017

School: RVR&JC College of Engineering                                                        http://universityinnovation.org/extensions/WYSIWYG/ckeditor/skins/kama/images/noimage.png?t=B49E5BQ                              

What he does now: Studies Mechanical Engineering, and a Fellow, FAB, University Innovation Fellows.

What that means: Grooming and Inspiring new fellows to become the real change agents, Promoting Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Contact him about: Student Clubs; Branding and Promotion; Designing Audit courses to improve I&E culture; Convincing Stakeholders; Problem Solving; Using Design thinking to solve Technical Problems, Entrepreneurial opportunities, E-hubs, Makers-spaces. Conan Doyle's fiction

Email: nvssrikar@gmail.com

Phone: (+91) - 7981797997

Srikar Naredla is an undergraduate studying Mechanical Engineering at RVR&JC College of Engineering, Guntur. His schooling went on in many places across Andhra Pradesh and Telangana which helped him understand the education system and aspired him to be an activist for change in higher education.

He has been rendering services as a change agent an ambassador to Andhra Pradesh State Skill Development Corporation (APSSDC) in promoting innovation and entrepreneurship across Andhra Pradesh. Through design thinking, he was successful in empowering students necessary with problem solving skills and building an entrepreneurial ecosystem on his campus. He started Club Phoenix with a motto "to learn from ones failures" and trained over 120 students in design thinking through various workshops of them 112 students came up with start-up ideas,43 of them are being coached by the North Eastern University, Boston, under Venture Development Diploma Program(VDDP) and Idea to Entrepreneurship(I2E). He is currently the President of one of the five Venture Development Centres of the state and is leading the Entrepreneur's club of his campus towards improving entrepreneurship opportunities to other campuses. He designed method and workshops so that engineering can be taught in a more experienceable way.

He dreams for India to be a nation where “No infant craves for milk, no youngster is deprived of primary education and no youth goes from door to door knocking for a job”.

He loves networking, reading fiction by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Ian Fleming. His other interests are film making, writing fiction, cooking.

finally," Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do things that no one can imagine"