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MOHALI: The concluding day of Progressive Punjab Summit-2015 witnessed a session wherein young innovators presented their ideas from home kits for cervical cancer detection to managing the kitchen waste. As many as 17 such innovative ideas incubated during 3-day long startup accelerator held at IT park Chandigarh, said an official release here. Yatin Thakur from Startup Weekend US said that the session Startups today was culmination of the Startup Weekend  programme organised on Oct 23 and Oct 24 startup activities and booster camps that were held across the Punjab in varied universities' campuses held in collaboration with the Startups Accelerator Chamber of Commerce (SACC) The ideas were churned out by the energetic youngsters who showcased their talent, which when implemented has the potential to change the way we think today, it said. The contest was won by Shwetika Kumar, who is trying to create self testing non intrusive cervical testing kits at a cost of USD 5, a