IDEATE FOR INDIA

Key Highlights:

• Objective: The aim of this National Challenge for Youth is to give school students across the country a platform and opportunity to become solution creators for the problems they see around them and their communities.
  
  
• Implementing agency: The Challenge has been designed and launched by the National e-Governance Division, Ministry of Electronics & IT in collaboration with Intel India, with support from the Department of School Education and Literacy (DoSE&L), Ministry of HRD.
  
  
• Eligibility: The Challenge is open to students of classes 6 - 12 all across the country - all 29 States and 7 Union Territories and aims to reach out to at least 1 million youth over the next 3 months.
  
  
• Themes: There are 11 core theme areas on which students can share their ideas- healthcare services, education services, digital services, environment, women safety, traffic, infrastructure, agriculture, social welfare, disability and tourism.
  
  

Working of Challenge:

• The Challenge requires students to access online videos and understand how to identify problems and share a 90 second video explaining the problem and their proposed solution.
  
  
• From the submitted ideas, around 360 students (10 students per State & UT) will be selected by a panel of experts to attend 5 regional Boot Camps of the country.
  
  
• At these camps, students will get trained to gain a basic understanding of skills such as design thinking, ideation wrt basic electronics, robotics, 3D printing, IOT, Artificial Intelligence etc.
  
  
• Mentoring will be provided by experts at these camps to ensure that ideas mature as prototypes.
  
  
• The experts will select top 50 students and will be declared Tech Creation Champions.