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Youth Ideathon 2025

India’s biggest entrepreneurship fest for schools

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Encourage students to identify solutions to real-world challenges.

Meet Entrepreneurs
92%
Collaborate with young startup founder
92%
Pitch your idea to Industry leaders
92%

ABOUT YOUTH IDEATHON

YOUTH IDEATHON is India’s Largest Festival of IDEAS for School Students of Class 4 to Class 12. It is an annual event brought about by collaboration between key partners from government and industry. Main organizing partners for Youth Ideathon 2024 are MEPSC (Management & Entrepreneurship and Professional Skill Council) and ThinkStartup (India’s largest entrepreneurship education provider for Schools and School Students).

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Management Entrepreneurship Professional Skills Council (MEPSC) is a Horizontal Sector Skills Council formed on 15th December 2015 under the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Govt of India, to bridge the employability gap. MEPSC focuses on job roles that are sector and industry agnostic. One of it’s key objectives is to promote entrepreneurship development across the country.

ThinkStartup is India’s largest entrepreneurship education provider for teenagers. ThinkStartup offers structured entrepreneurship and leadership programs for school students from Class 4 to Class 12. These include Unlock.Teen, Unlock.Future, Young CEO Program, U18 Launch Pad and in-school Entrepreneurship Labs and Clubs

THE BACKGROUND

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 school students 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 2024 (YI24) shall build upon the work of the previous editions to carry forward the mission of developing school level entrepreneurship.

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What the event is about

A national movement to spark innovation and entrepreneurial thinking among school students by empowering them to solve real-world challenges with bold ideas.

Ignite Young
Innovators

Fuel curiosity and creativity by challenging students to solve real-world problems through innovative thinking.

Empower Future Entrepreneurs

Enable students to turn bold ideas into viable solutions, products, or ventures with guidance, teamwork, and mentorship.

Nurture Ideas, Celebrate Mentors

Support top student innovations with incubation opportunities and honors the schools and teachers cultivating entrepreneurial mindsets.

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