Ministry of Education’s Innovation Cell and AICTE launched the School Innovation  Council programme for schools across the country. The Programme aims at fostering the  culture of Innovation, Ideation, Creativity, Design Thinking and Entrepreneurship in  Schools.  

Mahindra World School registered and trained teachers and students under different council  members as per the requirements of SIC. All teaching and non-teaching staffs of Mahindra  World school registered and completed the 72 hours training programme and received the  School Innovation Ambassador badge from Ministry of Education’s Innovation Cell and  AICTE.  

As a part of this initiative, students of grades VI-VIII (260 students) attended a virtual the  “Leadership talk” given by Mr. Yashraj Bharadwaj, Co-Founder of Petonic Info-tech,  Fellow and Advisor, UC Berkeley, who was interviewed by Dr. Elangovan Kariappan, Asst.  Director, Innovation cell, Ministry of Education.  

These SIC activities prepare the ground for Innovation, ideation, and prototype development  contests at school, state and national levels. SIC links schools with Innovation Councils  established by MoE’s Innovation Cell at Higher Education Level providing a greater  exposure to the school students