About Us
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).
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
ABOUT THINKSTARTUP
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.
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.
THE BACKGROUND
YI24: OBJECTIVES
The objectives of Youth Ideathon 2024 are as below:
- Ignite a passion for innovation and entrepreneurship among young minds.
- Encourage students to identify solutions to real-world challenges.
- Provide a platform for students to develop critical thinking, creativity, and problem-solving skills in a team
- Empower students to translate their ideas into actionable prototypes or saleable products
- 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