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Hi, I’m Shorya
I build because I care
Two filed patents, a smart blind stick in daily use, and an E-Rickshaw that turned a wheelchair user into an earning member of his family. Every build starts with a real person’s problem.
Got a problem worth solving? Bring me the constraint, the frustration, the thing nobody has fixed yet. I’ll bring the prototype.
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Featured on national television and covered by leading news agencies.
An Engineer at Heart & Soul
Solving real problems with precision — and a little bit of ❤️
(humanity built-in)
I've been building robots since I was six. What started with LEGO kits turned into Junior FLL, then FLL, then FTC and FRC, with Indian competitions at IIT Mumbai along the way. Every league taught me something the last one couldn't.
In 2020 and 2021, my mentor made me head of design and build for my school's robotics team, though I was one of the youngest members on it. We had no metalworking lab, Covid made importing parts impossible, and half the team had never held a power tool. So we used the school's woodwork lab, sourced parts from across the city, and taught ourselves woodworking off YouTube. We won the Rookie Game Changer Award internationally that season.
In 2022, my teammates and mentor nominated me for the FIRST Robotics Championship India Dean's List. I received the Finalist Award, one of only two students in the country recognised at that level. Every season taught me the same thing. Constraints are not the obstacle. They are the brief.
I've been building robots since I was six. What started with LEGO kits turned into Junior FLL, then FLL, then FTC and FRC, with Indian competitions at IIT Mumbai along the way. Every league taught me something the last one couldn't.
In 2020 and 2021, my mentor made me head of design and build for my school's robotics team, though I was one of the youngest members on it. We had no metalworking lab, Covid made importing parts impossible, and half the team had never held a power tool. So we used the school's woodwork lab, sourced parts from across the city, and taught ourselves woodworking off YouTube. We won the Rookie Game Changer Award internationally that season.
In 2022, my teammates and mentor nominated me for the FIRST Robotics Championship India Dean's List. I received the Finalist Award, one of only two students in the country recognised at that level. Every season taught me the same thing. Constraints are not the obstacle. They are the brief.
I've received the Sri Ram School Innovators Award every single year since 6th grade. Five in a row and counting.
They sit on a shelf at home, but I've never thought of them as trophies for winning something. Each one marks a year I was given room to build, tools to fail with, and people patient enough to let me try again. A workshop I could stay late in. A teacher who said yes to an idea that sounded ridiculous out loud.
I treat every award as a reminder of eternal gratitude to the benevolent Universe, and as a reason to keep making things that matter to somebody other than me. The shelf is not the point. What comes off the workbench next is.
I treat every award as a reminder of eternal gratitude to the benevolent Universe, and as a reason to keep making things that matter to somebody other than me. The shelf is not the point. What comes off the workbench next is.
I've received the Sri Ram School Innovators Award every single year since 6th grade. Five in a row and counting.
They sit on a shelf at home, but I've never thought of them as trophies for winning something. Each one marks a year I was given room to build, tools to fail with, and people patient enough to let me try again. A workshop I could stay late in. A teacher who said yes to an idea that sounded ridiculous out loud.
From First Build to Global Stage
Built to go beyond.
(And I’m just getting started)
Age 6
Started building circuits
Junior FLL to FRC
Progressed through global robotics leagues
IIT Mumbai Finalist
National recognition
Team Leader
Led school robotics team to Rookie Game Changer Award (International)
2022
Dean’s List Finalist, FIRST Robotics Championship
Ongoing
Winning national and international competitions with his club
Age 6
Started building circuits
Junior FLL to FRC
Progressed through global robotics leagues
IIT Mumbai Finalist
National recognition
Team Leader
Led school robotics team to Rookie Game Changer Award (International)
2022
Dean’s List Finalist, FIRST Robotics Championship
Ongoing
Winning national and international competitions with his club
Purpose-Led Projects
Built to solve. Designed to serve.
HOPE Physiotherapy Device
Patent filed · Team India at Regeneron ISEF
Millions of physically challenged Indians have no realistic access to physiotherapy. HOPE is a wearable brace that moves the user’s limbs through guided contraction and relaxation, and adjusts to fit individual limb shapes. Early trials showed it could assist motor function but lacked feedback and safety margins, so we added a force sensor to guard against excessive torque and a companion app that turns each session into trackable data. It carried me onto Team India at the Regeneron ISEF in Engineering Mechanics.
Project Louis Smart Blind Stick
Built with its users, and still in use
We took our first prototype to a blind school and let the students use it, then asked them what actually scared them out on the street. Their answers reshaped the design. The final stick uses LIDAR obstacle detection, GPS navigation, and image processing to warn the user before contact rather than at it. We won 1st position in Innovation Project and Research at the FIRST LEGO League North India Championship, then built finished sticks and handed them to the students. They still carry them.
E-Rickshaw For Wheelchair Users
Independence, and an income
I designed and built an E-Rickshaw a wheelchair user can drive themselves, without transferring out of the chair. The idea came from a month in Ladakh, where depending on someone else for every trip into town made me think about people who live with that dependence permanently. The vehicle is now in service with an NGO partner, and the driver it was built for earns from it. He went from being supported by his family to supporting it.
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- Mentorship
A Month in Ladakh
Sonam Wangchuk holds over 400 patents — one of only five Indians with that many — and inspired the lead character in 3 Idiots.He invited me to Ladakh for a month to automate systems at the new
SECMOL building.
I built three things there: insulating curtains that open at sunrise and close at sunset, a passive-heating indicator that tells students exactly when to open their windows, and a greenhouse ventilation controller that protects plants above 26°C.
