Robotic girl Inderjit wins NCWO Young Women Award

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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | 25 Aug 2015 | Asia Samachar |
Top: Inderjit with her proud mum. Below: Inderjit and other recipients of the NCWO women's award in Kuala Lumpur on 24 Aug 2015.
Top: Inderjit with her proud mum. Below: Inderjit and other recipients of the NCWO women’s award in Kuala Lumpur on 24 Aug 2015.

Multi-talented student Inderjit Kaur was yesterday named as the winner of the Young Women Award for excellence in academic presented by Malaysia’s National Council of Women’s Organisations (NCWO).

She was one of the nine recipients of the Anugerah Tokoh Wanita Muda NCWO which recognises outstanding young women, aged 15 – 40 years, who have excelled in their field and received national and international recognition for their achievements.

Inderjit, 18, has many achievements attached to her name. Robot inventor is one of them. She is also keen into research and excels in social communication. In person, she is animated and can hold interesting conversation.

But she has had a tough life. She was only nine months old when her dad left her mum. Inderjit did not succumb to the hardship and challenges. Instead, she decided to make the best of what life had to offer.

“I must thank my mum for being there for me, for being strong,” she says.

Her inspiration includes motivation books like The Secret and also Sikhi (Sikh teaching) itself. She realised that the only way to strive forward to success was through education.

Her aim in life? “I want to be a human of value,” she tells Asia Samachar.

The hard work paid off. In 2013, she got enrolled at the Pusat PERMATApintar Negara, a school for the gifted students run by Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM).

Inderjit, who is an active volunteer at Wadda Gurdwara Sahib Kampung Pandan, Kuala Lumpur, is known as the ‘smart girl who invented a robot’.

Indeed, she did. Inderjit led a team in several successful robotics competitions, including winning the gold medal in the International Symposium on Robotics and Intelligent Sensors 2012. Her team’s Nanny Robot was designed to monitor a baby’s status using sound and temperature sensors, which would activate functions such as rocking the baby in a swing, or contacting parents based on the child’s cries. She had also won bronze at the World Robot Olympiad.

She had also taken part in numerous competitions like the Malaysian National Chemistry Quiz, Permata Pintar Summer Camp, First Lego League Malaysia Open Championship, World Scholar’s Cup, Kangaroo Math Competition, Solar Cooking Competition, MSSWP Chess Competition and National Choral Speaking Competition.

She was also into martial art, having secured a Yellow Belt – 8th Kup at the World Taekwando Federation.

At the height of the Kelantan floods in January 2015, Inderjit joined as a volunteer with the humanitarian relief agency United Sikhs.

The NCWO awards were presented by Raja Permaisuri Agung Tuanku Hajah Aminah. She was accompanied Prime Minister’s wife Rosmah Mansor, Minister of Women, Family and Community Developmen Rohani Abdul Karim and NCWO president Dr Sharifah Hapsah Syed Hasan Shahabudin.

All the best, Inderjit Kaur. Raab rakha!

 

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3 COMMENTS

  1. I feel that Inderjit Kaur should be awarded by all Sikh organizations for her talent and also the gifts she gave to all Sikhs to be proud of.
    Inderjit Kaur tusi great ho

  2. Congrats Inderjit Kaur…U are the role model for all the youngsters out there…keep up all the good work and u will definitely be a successful person in future..God Bless You

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