About National Youth Innovator's Challenge 2024
We are delighted to extend an invitation to participate in our upcoming Innovation Challenge, 2024 as per the NEP 2020 guidelines for reimagining Vocational Education and Skill-building. The Innovation Challenge is an exciting event designed to foster creativity, problem-solving skills, and collaboration among students from various schools.
What is NYIC?
NYIC is a special platform where students like you can share their creative ideas and get the support to make them real world solutions. We believe that the youth are the catalysts for change, and through NYIC, we aim to provide them with the tools, guidance, and mentorship they need to make a meaningful impact.
NYIC is open for which students?
NYIC is open to all students from 8th to 12th grade
Goals
- Innovation and Creativity: Encourage the development of novel, sustainable technologies and practices that reduce environmental impact.
- Collaboration and Community: Build a diverse community of innovators, businesses, and organizations working together towards common environmental goals.
- Education and Awareness: Increase awareness and knowledge about environmental issues and sustainable practices among participants and the broader community.
- Scalability and Impact: Support projects that have the potential to be scaled and replicated, creating significant and measurable positive environmental impacts.
Benefits of the Challenge
This challenge generates scientific and rational thinking at the learning stage of students. This program inculcates various skills which include:
- Education Awareness: Providing students with knowledge and awareness of current environmental issues, their causes, and potential solutions.
- Skill Development: Equipping students with skills in innovation, problem-solving, critical thinking, and entrepreneurship within the context of environmental sustainability.
- Hands-on Experience: Offering opportunities for practical applications of knowledge and skills through projects or challenges focused on developing innovative solutions.
- Empowerment: Empowering students to make a positive impact on the environment by supporting and nurturing their ideas and initiatives.
Benefits for Students
We want to inculcate 21st-century skills such as creativity, fluency, accuracy, and productivity. The selected ideas/innovations will be used as startups with the team and supported by SACC (Startup Accelerator Chamber of Commerce). The victorious concept will be sponsored by the SACC, which also provides training, support, and loans for the implementation of these innovative ideas to convert them into startups.