Continuing with the exemplary performance of academic brilliance combined with innovation, students of Delhi Public School Warangal were shortlisted among the top 25 groups in this year’s ThinkStartup Youth Ideathon 2022. The annual event received over 62,000 entries from 5000+ schools around the country. DPS Warangal stands out as one among the four in the south zone and the only school from AP and Telangana to receive this recognition for this innovative idea, which addresses a key issue in India, i.e. unemployment for unskilled workers. Among the top CBSE schools in Warangal, Delhi Public School Warangal is well-known for its results in academics and co-curricular activities both.
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DPS Warangal students among top 25 selected at 2022 ThinkStartUp Youth Ideathon; chosen among 6000 schools
The students comprising a group of 4 namely, K. Rajarajeswari Rao, G Sweehani Nayak, Rohith Rathod, and Dhoot Raghav, from classes XI and XII, came up with an idea to help with employment creation in India’s rural sector. The students teamed up to develop an app which aims to connect semi-skilled, and unskilled labourers. The idea is to create a marketplace connecting farmers, construction owners, and the like to people who are looking for employment. Since much of the technology innovation considers only skilled workers, their app which is focused on unskilled labours aims to address India’s unskilled employment problem, using technology. The app also intends to use Digital Payments, to simplify the problem of wage management, and digital identity creation for unskilled labourers. By developing a meeting point, it addresses a key problem of eliminating the middleman who typically would be the determinant of wages, jobs, and more for unskilled workers, in rural parts of the country. The team was mentored by Sampath Athirajula.
The students in keeping with the event’s theme – looked at identifying social problems and proposed solutions under the theme of MERA IDEA JO BADAL DE BHARAT. Youth Ideathon is an event by CBSE, in collaboration with MEPSC (Management & Entrepreneurship and Professional Skill Council) and ThinkStartup. Youth Ideathon is India’s most exciting innovation and entrepreneurship competition for school students.
The event’s focus is to foster India’s most exciting innovation and entrepreneurship competition for school students. A 5-Stage Competition, 4 lakhs projects are submitted in the first round, and the top 1000 projects are selected here. The second-round shortlists 100 projects, and the third round 25 projects are chosen from a list of 100. Public votes are invited to vote for ideas which are uploaded to the ThinkStartup Youth Ideathon Youtube channel. In round 3, the teams are also interviewed by a panel of industry experts, to evaluate the idea. The team is thereafter required to develop a prototype of the idea, using a cash award of Rs. 5,000 for the next stage. At this final stage, i.e. round 5, the teams are invited to present their pitch in Delhi in front of a grand jury. The evaluation parameters are (a) the power of ideas in terms of its ability to solve a real problem (b) its impact in terms of number of people who it touches or potentially touch (c) how the idea stands with respect to alternate solutions available (d) the progress made by the participant during the ideathon to make the idea as real as possible (e) Ability the participant to build a start-up with the proposed idea.
Speaking on the occasion of the announcement, Chairman, DPS Warangal School, Ravi Kiran Reddy said, “We’re proud to be fostering young and brilliant minds that are looking at contributing to society with solutions. Their imagination and innovation reflect our values of “service before self” and I congratulate our team and others who’re championing ideas to change the nation. Given the young age of our country and the role schools play, it’s not only encouraging to have a platform such as Youth Ideathon; but it’s also inspiring for younger students who can aim towards nation-building as a larger purpose, in addition to achieving academic excellence.”
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