Even a pandemic can’t control the power of education – 25,000 under-privileged students from government schools learnt to ‘Build Robots’ Online.

Robotex India works to bring Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Coding & STEAM Education to government schools in urban, tribal and rural areas. Their main goal is to unite global expertise aiming towards impacting technological innovation advocacy on building future-ready and pandemic-proof systems educating students on co-curricular, fit for the 21st century.

The flagship programs – ‘Girls who Build Robots’ and ‘Robotex for Rural’ – are aimed at advocating for a more gender-equal society and equal opportunity for all. The key objective behind the programs is to instill life skills as well as technical skills hand in hand with foundational literacy in school students which, in turn, prepares them for participation at the championships.

We believe that children from every village in India should have the opportunity to learn advanced digital future skills to help build an Intellectual, Innovative & Incredible India.

Payal Rajpal, Director Robotex India

Robotex India’s goal in the next 10 years is aligned with the WEF 2020 report stating top 10 employable skills of 2030.

How has Robotex India Navigated the COVID crisis?

The pandemic’s adverse effect on the education system, including extended school shut downs and the lockdown has led to far-reaching economic and societal consequences. The disadvantaged children and their families were impacted the most as it threatened to interrupt their learning. However, the looming uncertainty on the reopening of schools did nothing to curb the learning zeal and enthusiasm of students pan-India who were being coached by Robotex on STEM, Robotics, AI and coding.

The organization educated 25000 students on future skills, enabling them to showcase their innovative projects. In four states, including, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Delhi, and Telangana, Robotex conducted virtual workshops for students from government schools approximately 11,000 students ensuring that learning of students wasn’t compromised due to the global health crisis.

The greatest challenge was the fact that the students, with whom the organization works with, do not have access to laptops or computers, wifi is unheard of too and they have limited access to mobile data. Their households have limited hours of electricity, a single mobile device between the entire family. The passionate team at Robotex did not give up and instead, set up robust low bandwidth LMS, conducted live lessons, and endless hours of mentoring. Our mission at Robotex India is to unite global expertise aiming towards impacting technological innovation advocacy on building future-ready and pandemic-proof systems educating students on co-curricular, fit for the 21st century. Addressing the disconnect between degree and skills, bridging Digital Divide to build a solid foundation for future generations. Safeguarding their career goals initiating avenues towards increased employment and entrepreneurial options.

Why Robotics?

Robotex is all about encouraging students to take up STEM, Robotics and Coding projects as they illustrate their capability of logical and cognitive thinking and team building abilities. The capstone projects revolve around solving real life problems such as environment, waste management, pandemic, agriculture and manufacturing. Some of the capstone projects of the students of Robotex India include Robots which collect BioMedical Waste, Beach Cleaner, Self-Watering and Seed Sowing Tractor, a bot making announcements in public areas to keep their masks on, automated home sanitizers, and a contactless food delivery system to Covid patients.

We successfully replicated our offline model to an online model, 18000 students learnt, created and exhibited projects online during the pandemic school shutdown.

The organization has addressed the disconnect between educational degrees and vocational skills by bridging the digital divide to build a solid foundation for future generations. This has not only safeguarded their career goals but at the same time, initiated avenues towards increased employment and entrepreneurial options.

Robotex India’s Ten Year Vision Plan

To build a future skills pipeline for specialized higher education and employment and entrepreneurial opportunities through national and international internships and scholarships.

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