School
Youth Ideathon
2025

India’s biggest entrepreneurship fest for schools

About

School Youth Ideathon

India’s school education ecosystem is rapidly evolving under the vision of NEP 2020, Startup India, and Atmanirbhar Bharat. These initiatives emphasize developing 21st-century skills, creativity, and an entrepreneurial mindset among students from an early age.

In this context, ThinkStartup, in collaboration with CBSE and MEPSC (under the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship), launched School Youth Ideathon (www.YouthIdeathon.in) — a first-of-its-kind national competition to nurture young innovators and problem-solvers in schools across India.

Over four editions,School Youth Ideathon has become India’s largest K-12 entrepreneurship competition, inspiring over 185,000 students from 6,000+ schools in 2024 edition to solve real-world challenges through innovative ideas and frugal product development.

ThinkStartup Foundation is a not-for-profit organization operating at the intersection of entrepreneurship, innovation, and education.

We transform lives by equipping India’s youth and women—particularly from underserved, low-income, dropout-prone backgrounds—with the entrepreneurial mindset, practical skills, and essential tools needed to become job creators, solopreneurs, and micro-enterprise leaders.

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Thinkstartup Foundation

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ABOUT MEPSC

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.

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is a national-level board of education in India for public and private schools, controlled and managed by the Government of India.
Established in 1929 by a resolution of the government, the Board was an experiment towards inter-state integration and cooperation in the sphere of secondary education

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Central Board of Secondary Education

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Tanla Platforms Limited

Tanla Platforms Limited, founded in 1999, is an AI-native platform company transforming digital interactions through innovation-led SaaS solutions.

With an enterprise- and user-centric approach, Tanla advances data security, privacy, and protection against spam and scams, while partnering with leading telcos to build trusted, scalable communication ecosystems.

Headquartered in Hyderabad, India, Tanla is the preferred partner of 2,500+ enterprises across industries, including global tech leaders such as Google, Meta, and Truecaller.

Recognized as a ‘Visionary’ in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ and ranked among the “1000 High-Growth Companies in Asia Pacific” by the Financial Times, Tanla is publicly traded on NSE and BSE (NSE: TANLA; BSE: 532790) and is part of benchmark indices including Nifty 500, BSE 500, Nifty Digital Index, FTSE Russell, and MSCI.

Organizing Committee

The School Youth Ideathon is brought to life by a passionate team of educators, innovators, and leaders from ThinkStartup, MEPSC, and CBSE. Together, they guide and support the vision of empowering school students through innovation and entrepreneurship.