AICTE organises innovation, design, entrepreneurship bootcamp on April 4, 5

NEW DELHI: The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) chairman TG Sitharam on Thursday virtually inaugurated the innovation, design and entrepreneurship (IDE) bootcamp for teachers and principals. IDE bootcamp will be held at 18 nodal centres in 14 states across the country. The camp is being held to nurture innovative skills and explore the business models of schools.

The camp is being organised by the innovation cell of the education ministry. IDE bootcamp is an extended version of the school innovation contest, organised as part of the School Innovation Council of Innovation Cell of the AICTE. A total of 4,145 participants, including 854 from PM SHRI schools and 3,291 from other schools, will be part of the event.

The first phase will be held on April 4 and 5 at four nodal centres of PM SHRI schools in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh and five centres of remaining schools in Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai, and Jammu and Kashmir. The second phase will be held on April 9 and 10. It will target non-PM SHRI schools from nine nodal centres at Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Chandigarh, Kerala, Assam, Rajasthan, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh.

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Participants will be given training on adopting a human-centric approach to identify opportunities, mastering design thinking tools, and honing skills necessary to develop customer-centric products or services. They will explore fundamental business models and conduct preliminary calculations for their start-up concepts.

TG Sitharam said, “The IDE bootcamp will help in inculcating the innovative skills in students at an early stage. Through the bootcamp, school students will develop the ability of taking risks, learn to overcome the fear of failure and harness the power of experiential and interactive learning.” School innovation initiatives will help in enhancing the gross enrollment ratio, he added.