IIT Gold-Medalist Quits a Cushy Job To Transform School Kids Into Changemakers!

In August 2018, a group of 13-year-olds—Aarushi, Divyanshi, Yashika, Fatima, and Ritwika—from Study Hall School in Lucknow, observed that many parents would drop their children off to school in the morning in their motorcycles or scooters without wearing helmets.
The Study Hall School initiative is one among the approximately 250+ changemaker initiatives started by children from the age of 10 to 16 to solve real-world problems from over 15+ schools across India.
After obtaining his undergraduate degree in civil engineering from IIT-Roorkee and winning the President’s Gold Medal, he went onto work in startups at their nascent stage, particularly those in the e-commerce and the ed-tech space, for the next two years developing business strategy, product development, marketing, operations, team building, etc.
Over the next year, he started Better Plus Education (BPE), designed a year-long Changemaker curriculum, and started conducting a pilot in National Public School, Koramangala.
In the second part, all students in teams of four launch initiatives to solve real-world problems in their home, school, and community, and develop the core changemaker skills in the most hands-on manner.
As we couldn’t be physically present in every school, this gave us an idea to launch our second program called the International Changemaker Olympiad (ICO)—a competition where students from any school can form teams and launch their initiatives to solve a real-world problem.

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