#ProudMoment | Goan youth Sachin Kochrekar has won the first ever Millennium Pitching Contest, This competition was for doctoral candidates with a task of solving grand challenges of our time. The first prize was 10,000 euros.

Kochrekar’s innovation is a method for converting carbon dioxide into fuel using renewable sources of energy, and thereby helping to mitigate climate change and close the carbon cycle.

“All aspects of the pitch were very well explained, and the work has high environmental impact”, said Yrjö Neuvo, Chair of the contest’s jury and professor emeritus at Aalto University.

Sachin Kochrekar is from Porvorim and the contest was held at Finland, his father Prakash, mother Pranita and brother Sushant expressed joy on Sachin's win

#ProudMoment | Goan youth Sachin Kochrekar has won the first ever Millennium Pitching Contest.