Mirza Rizwan, an Indian innovator, has been selected to receive the George Washington Honor Medal, a US National Award to be given by the Freedoms Foundation. Mirza Rizwan, a 48-year-old Indian innovator, has been selected to receive the George Washington Honor Medal, a US National Award to be given by the Freedoms Foundation at a ceremony in Dallas on November 8, 2021.
Rizwan has been selected for this award for his efforts to turn young students in the age group between 10-18 years into innovators and to establish a school to help students succeed. The Freedom Foundations, in its letter to Mirza Rizwan, has acknowledged his contribution to “revolutionizing education in the United States by designing and delivering course modules to mentor kids to innovate STEM solutions to real-world problems”.
To date, Rizwan’s organization Discover STEM-USA has filed for 320 patents, out of which USPTO is evaluating five innovations, which is of significance for the United States security agencies. While speaking to Republic TV, Rizwan named some of the important innovations undertaken by his students at DiscoverSTEM-USA.
Mirza Rizwan is an accomplished Indian academician and well-recognized researcher in the field of innovation, entrepreneurship, competitiveness, sustainability, and education. He is a graduate of Economics, with a management degree from Bangalore University and an Advanced MBA from IIM-Bangalore and HEC-Paris. He is presently completing his Ph.D. in Innovation & Sustainability.
Rizwan is well known in the global research & development fraternity and he has been invited to serve as a judge for the ‘R&D100 Award’ (known as ‘The Oscars of Invention’) for the last five years and the ‘Hult Prize’, (known as the Nobel Prize of the students). He has evaluated research outcomes of various NASA & US Department of Energy Labs. He is currently working as Chief Innovation Officer at Si2 Microsystems, a large multinational technology corporation, where he leads the charge to develop and execute their global innovation strategies.
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