Promote a learning environment where creativity, ideation, innovation, problem solving and entrepreneurship skills of students are nurtured.
Ministry of Education’s Innovation Cell and AICTE has launched 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. SIC will promote out of box thinking in school education as envisioned in National Innovation and National Education Policy 2020.
The schools will have to conduct various activities for students and teachers under SIC annual calendar plan. These activities will prepare the ground for Innovation, ideation, and prototype development contests at school, state and national levels. SIC will link schools with Innovation Councils established by MoE’s Innovation Cell at Higher Education Level to further provide exposure to school students.
New Education Policy has laid huge emphasis on promoting out-of-the-box thinking amongst students. To achieve this goal, school teachers across the country will be trained, who will further nurture the young school students on:
The Program is designed in such a way that students learn to acquire both knowledge of design and practice of skills required to develop an attitude towards design. Students will learn the following modules in the process:
