Indian Student Becomes the Most Sought US Scholarship Awardee, Bags $10,000 for College Education

It's yet another Indian moment of pride with Japteg Singh Bamrah, a bright young lad from Jammu, winning the much sought-after HonorsGradU 2025 Scholarship in the US. The scholarship offers the 'Build a Better Future' award and a $15,000 academic as well as innovative endeavor sponsoring scholarship.

Of the total grant fund, $10,000 will be allocated as funding to take Bamrah straight to US college and $5,000 for continued work on his life-changing invention—the Solar Mech Engine. The invention has been greeted as being a giant leap forward in the search for renewable energy technologies.

Bamrah's journey towards achieving this has been a journey of relentless hard work and scientific curiosity. Bamrah's device, worked out in collaboration with senior scientist Nasir Ul Rasheed at CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (IIIM), Jammu, is based on electromagnetic induction to achieve effective energy conversion. Fascinatingly, the Solar Mech Engine is a reversible heat pump as well, thus broadening its scope of use in practical applications.

The innovation was already making waves last year when it was found in the CSIR Jigyasa Hackathon 2024, where Bamrah proved his mettle in applying theoretical knowledge to reality in resolving problems.

Referring to the scholarship, the experts further added that the HonorsGradU program is highly competitive in nature, which is committed to finding and sponsoring such candidates who are academically good and are ready to work on sustainable projects. Bamrah's success indicates more world focus towards the Indian students' role in making science and sustainability.

The scholarship is not just a personal success for me but also an easy benchmark" said Bamrah.

While Bamrah begins his college years in the US, the next stage of his project would be in scaling and perfecting the Solar Mech Engine, which will take his dream of green energy a step further towards its fulfillment.

This victory is being hailed far and wide, both as an individual achievement as well as an inspiring demonstration of the zeal for innovation that dominates young Indian minds.