Param Jaggi

Param Jaggi is an American Inventor and the CEO of Hatch Technologies.[1] Previously, he was founder and CEO of EcoViate.[2] He is known for building Algae Mobile, a device that converts carbon dioxide emitted from a car into oxygen.[3] Jaggi was featured in Forbes 30 under 30 in 2011[4] and 2012.[5]

Param Jaggi
Born04/18/1994
Alma materVanderbilt University
Scientific career
FieldsPhysical Sciences
Websitewww.paramjaggi.com

He was named an INK Fellow and participated in the 2013 INK Conference.[6] Jaggi was also a speaker at TEDxRedmond in 2013[7] and is on the board of USA Science and Engineering Festival.[8] In 2013, he was featured in CNN's The Next List.[9]

Early life and education

Jaggi’s parents encouraged him to pursue science since he was a child. As a child, he pursued projects related to environment and world problems. After completing his education from Plano East High School,[10] he joined Austin College in 2011.[11] When he was 15, he began working with alternative energy sources and a year later he started working in a lab at University of Texas, Dallas. He has also worked at a patent law office.[2] In 2012, he attended Vanderbilt University where he became a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Sustainability and Economics.[12]

Inventions

He started working with environmental tu no metes Cabra and energy technologies at the age of 13.[13] When he was 14, he built an algae-based bio-reactor.[2] In 2013, he started working on a thermo-voltaic system that would harness wasted heat from the motor vehicle.[12]

Algae Mobile

Jaggi built the first model of Algae Mobile, a device that converts carbon dioxide emitted from a car into oxygen,[3] in 2008. He got the idea of building the device when he was learning to drive. In 2009, he filed a patent for it,[14] which was approved in 2013.[15] Since 2009, he has made different models of Algae Mobile.[14] In February 2010, he won top prize in the Beal Bank Dallas Regional Science and Engineering Fair at Fair Park for Algae Mobile[16]

In 2011, he participated in ExxonMobil Texas Science and Engineering Fair qualified to advance to the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF)[17] At the ISEF, he won the Environmental Protection Agency's Patrick H. Hurd Sustainability Award for Algae Mobile 3.[18]

Personal life

Jaggi is of Indian descent,[2] and currently resides in Washington, D.C.[19] His father, Pawan Jaggi is an entrepreneur[20] and serves as the director of EcoViate.

Awards and honors
  • 2011 - Nominated for Dallas Morning News Texan of the Year.[21]
  • 2011 - EPA's Sustainability Award at Intel International Science Fair[22]
  • 2011 - Featured in Popular Science 'Top 10 High School Inventors'[18]
  • 2011 - Featured in Mental Floss' Whiz Kids: 5 Amazing Young Inventors
  • 2011, 2012 - Featured in Forbes 30 Under 30's energy category[4][5]

References
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  8. "Advisors". USA Science and Engineering Festival. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
  9. "Environmental wunderkind and Vanderbilt student Param Jaggi to be featured on CNN's 'The Next List'". Vanderbilt University. Retrieved 9 November 2013.
  10. "College Freshman Makes Forbes World-Changers List". NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth. Retrieved 9 November 2013.
  11. "Freshman Named Top Inventor". Austin College. Retrieved 9 November 2013.
  12. "Meet Param Jaggi, A Young CEO". Her Campus. Retrieved 9 November 2013.
  13. "Meet 9 Amazing Teen "Cleantech" Inventors". Oracle Talk. Retrieved 9 November 2013.
  14. "Whiz Kids: 5 Amazing Young Inventors". Mental Floss. Retrieved 9 November 2013.
  15. "EcoViate team trying to "change the world"". Teknovation.biz. Retrieved 9 November 2013.
  16. Wilonsky, Robert. "A Breath of Fresh Air: Plano East Senior Named One of America's Great Young Inventors". Dallas Observer. Retrieved 9 November 2013.
  17. "ExxonMobil State Science Fair Grand Prize Winners Qualify to Attend International Fair". Plano Independent School District.
  18. Bagley, Katherine. "High School Inventors 2011". Popular Science. Retrieved 8 November 2013.
  19. "Six Nashvillians named in Forbes' 30 Under 30 series". Nashville Business Journal. Retrieved 9 November 2013.
  20. "Science student by day is CEO by night". Indian Gazette. Retrieved 9 November 2013.
  21. "Nobel Laureate for Texan of the Year?". Dallas Morning News. Retrieved 9 November 2013.
  22. Tam, Julie. "Teen's Invention to Reduce Car Pollution Wins EPA Award". NBC 4 Dallas-Fort Worth. Retrieved 9 November 2013.
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