YOUTH IDEATHON 2023
CENTRAL BOARD OF SECONDARY EDUCATION
(An Autonomous Organisation Under the Ministry of Education, Govt of India)
CBSE/SE/DI R(SE)/YI/2023
Dated: 29th Sep 2023
NOTIFICATION
YOUTH IDEATHON 2023
Management Entrepreneurship Professional Skills Council (MEPSC) under Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE), Govt. of India and ThinkStartup are organizing YOUTH IDEATHON 2023, India’s Largest K-12 School Level Ideas Festival to harness innovation and entrepreneurship potential on young minds of India.
YOUTH IDEATHON 2023 is a 5-stage competition that shall be launched on 6th October 2023 and the finals shall be held on 18th Nov 2023. The theme of this event is “iStartup a Good Thing for India”. This is an online event. For fair representation of schools and students from each region, this year YOUTH IDEATHON shall have regional rounds. School students can submit their innovation ideas on the website www.YouthIdeathon.in.
YOUTH IDEATHON 2023 intends to provide following benefits
- Build innovation and entrepreneurial mindset in our school students.
- Encourage school students to research about ground level problems and find creative solutions to those problems.
- Channelize youth energy in solving nation’s problems.
- There will be free online HIGMID workshops for students by entrepreneurs – How I Got My Idea (HIGMID) (details on website).
- Faculty Workshops (details on website).
- National Level, State Level and Theme Award winner students shall be provided. incubation and mentoring support through various incubators.
For more details, please refer to the annexure.
The session for faculty and student on the topic “How to get Good Ideas” will be conducted by the organizers on 11th October, 2023 & 18th October, 2023. Faculty / Students can register for this workshop on the website (www.YouthIdeathon.in)
Heads of all the affiliated schools must encourage their students and faculty to participate in this unique program in a big way.
For registration and other details please visit www.YouthIdeathon.in
For feedback and any queries, please write to: info@youthideathon.in, vandana@thinkstartup.in
(Dr. Biswajit Saha)
Director (Skill Education)
YOUTH IDEATHON 2023
YOUTH IDEATHON
Started in 2021, YOUTH IDEATHON (www.YouthIdeathon.in) is India’s most exciting innovation and entrepreneurship competition for school students. The ideathon contest engages with youth to energize them and connect with their passions to discover societal problems and propose solutions that can make lives of humanity better. Its motto is MERA IDEA JO BADAL DE BHARAT, thereby implying, an idea that can change India.
In the 2022 edition, more than 95000 school students from over 7000 schools. Now we are all set to launch Youth Ideathon 2023
Government of India through its initiatives like New Education Policy (NEP 2020), Atma Nirbhar Bharat, Startup India, Make in India has put emphasis on developing creative potential in school students. Therefore, it is important to take this message of innovation and entrepreneurship to the youth of today to encourage them to develop the spirit of innovation and harness their potential to dream futuristic ideas and make it happen.
Youth Ideathon 2023 (YI23) shall build upon the work of the 2nd edition of Youth Ideathon to carry forward the mission of developing school level entrepreneurship.
YI23 festival is designed to encourage school students all across India to explore entrepreneurship through ideation, prototyping and idea pitch to expert panel. It is expected to generate participation from over 200,000 school students from all parts of India – cities, towns, villages, everywhere.
YI23: OBJECTIVES
The objectives of Youth Ideathon 2023 are as below:
- Encourage school students to dream big and build real solutions.
- Develop the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship in school students
- Recognise efforts of motivated school teachers / mentors and schools who are working behind the scenes to develop entrepreneurship in schools
- Nurture high potential student ideas with incubation support
- Open doors of angel funding for incubated student ventures
YI23: WHO IS IT FOR?
YI23 aspires that school level innovation and entrepreneurship should be captured, rewarded and harnessed.
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