Eleven year-old Rajashree Choudhury can’t understand whypeople insist on using cellphones while they drive. “I’ve read about so many incidents where people get into accidents because they were talking while driving,” she says. This is what led to one of the prize-winning entries at IGNITE 2012, an annual contest that encourages children across the country to come up with out-of-the-box inventions. The competition stresses on the merit of the idea rather than a functionalu00a0prototype.

Eleven year-old Rajashree Choudhry was given an award for her invention at IGNITE 2012 by APJ Abdul Kalam