Mark Rober, YouTube personality and former NASA engineer, public enemy
#1 of neighborhood squirrels, & creator of the sparkliest glitter bomb
pranks, is coming to India and giving away ₹5 lakh each to ten lucky inventors.
The Jugaad Contest
2025 will run from April
30, 2025, to September 15, 2025.
HOW TO ENTER
Post a video on Facebook, X, YouTube or Instagram of your most creative,
innovative Jugaad
invention using everyday household items. The contest is open to ages 8+. If
you are under 18 years of age, your entry must be posted and submitted by your
parent/legal guardian. Go to markroberjugaad.com to enter the contest.
🔗 Important:
Provide the link to your post with your Jugaad invention. Posting a video on
social media alone will NOT result in entry. Your entry will NOT be accepted
without the link to the post.
Hashtag: Use #MarkRoberJugaad and make sure your social media profile is public.
📌 NO
PURCHASE NECESSARY. Contest ends at 11:59 PM IST on September 15, 2025.
Open to legal residents of India aged 8+. See Official Rules for full details including entry procedure,
prize description, and judging criteria. Void where prohibited.
Sponsor: CrunchLabs LLC, Sunnyvale, CA 94087 USA. Not sponsored by any social
media platform.
About Mark Rober
With over 68
million YouTube subscribers and 11+ billion views, Mark Rober has
become a global symbol of entertaining science. After years as a NASA engineer,
he exploded onto YouTube with videos featuring squirrel obstacle courses,
glitter bombs, Nerf gun builds, underwater traps, and more.
In 2022, Rober revealed his secret project—CrunchLabs, a
massive creativity factory in the San Francisco Bay Area. The lab produces
monthly STEM toys
and exclusive videos that make engineering fun and accessible for kids and
teens. CrunchLabs' "Build Box" and "Hack Pack" have become
a hit with hundreds of thousands of subscribers across the globe.
Rober is also the brain behind viral philanthropic movements like #TeamTrees (20M
trees planted) and #TeamSeas
(30M pounds of ocean cleanup). His charity livestreams and collaborations have
raised millions for education and autism support.
His social reach includes:
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YouTube – 68M Subscribers
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Facebook – 5.3M Followers
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TikTok – 3.7M Followers
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Instagram – 2.4M Followers
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Twitter – 515K Followers
In the end, Techburner x Mark Rober
wasn’t just a YouTube collab. It was a
celebration of two different but deeply connected worlds—the precision of
engineering and the accessibility of tech communication. It showed that science
doesn’t need to be confined to labs, and that gadgets are more than just tools—they’re
entry points into the wonder of how things work.
And as the video wrapped up with both creators smiling over a
hilariously powerful, reinvented kitchen appliance, it was clear: when innovation meets influence,
engineering doesn’t just get cooler—it gets an upgrade.