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Take your experience further with Premium access. Thought-provoking Opinions, Expert Analysis, In-depth Insights and other Member Only BenefitsThe Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) on Monday announced that the TiE Grad finalist WCB of BITS Pilani-Hyderabad has won the spot to compete in Rice Business Plan Competition (RBPC) in the United States. RBPC is one of the largest global university challenge competition which will be held in Houston, Texas. Around 42 university teams from across the world are competing for more than $1.5 million in cash and prizes.
Last year, 10 leading colleges participated in the TiE Grad competition and the winning teams, WCB (Windows Cleaning Bot) from BITS Pilani-Hyderabad and Law School 101 from NALSAR University, Hyderabad campus, jointly shared the prize money of Rs 5 lakh.
"It is a great privilege to be selected for RBPC at Rice University," said BITS Pilani student and founder of WCB Robotics, Ujjawal Aggarwal. He thanked TiE for providing the best platform to validate their model.
Pradeep Mittal, Past President of TiE Hyderabad and CEO of GreatFour Systems Inc, congratulated WCB and said it got a fabulous platform to fine-tune their model. — IANS
