Welcome to Inventure Academy’s Changemaker Challenge Season 4!

Inviting Changemakers from across Bangalore’s schools and communities for our first ever VIRTUAL Changemaker Challenge

Register by 11 APRIL 2020

Our world has changed dramatically with the outbreak of COVID-19 and is continuing to change the lives of people and communities around the world every second. With challenges come opportunities. The bigger the challenge, the more there is opportunity for innovation. For us right now this crisis/opportunity calls out for us to reimagine education.

In light of the COVID-19 situation, we invite teams of 3 or more students from Grades 7 to 12, together with their parents and teachers (at least one  adult mentor), to explore sustainable solutions for education, and schools in particular.

Given the very real possibility that we may not be able to ‘go back to regular school’ as per the scheduled date, what will learning look like in the age of COVID-19 and social distancing? Should online/distance learning replicate what school and classes have been so far? How long should an ‘ideal’ school day be – should the school day get shorter or longer? What should a day in the life of a preschool, primary, middle and secondary student ideally look like? Should it become more of project based learning, or a mix of academics, beyond academics and life skills?

What is the role of teachers, parents, students in this kind of education? How do we ensure we all help each other and stay physically fit and healthy, despite being confined to our homes and not being able to access public spaces/playgrounds? For those of us who are sports athletes and enthusiasts, how do we continue our quest for sporting excellence? Same for those of us who are into performing and/or visual arts? How do we best develop our social intelligence, and maintain our emotional wellbeing when confined to our homes? How might we ensure that society and educators use this as an opportunity to reflect and course correct? Should this crisis have an impact on not just how we learn, but also what we learn?

Your solutions for the questions above (or other relevant questions) could address one or all sections of school – from Pre Primary to Grade 12. Be sure to get perspectives from students and teachers on what makes teaching & learning relevant, engaging and fun for them, and ultimately also prepare us all  for when we are able to go back to school campuses.

All stages of the Inventure Academy Changemaker Challenge 2020-21 will be conducted online/virtually

The inaugural Inventure Academy Round Square Youth Parliament – Our World, Our Voice was held from 15 to 19 August 2018.

The conference was conceptualised by Inventure Academy to equip children with the Right to Participate (guaranteed by Article 12 of the UNCRC) in the world that they are inheriting and to enable them to be positive change makers. This was achieved by exposing our youth to different perspectives, dialogues between nations and the process of decision-making through a blended platform of the Model United Nations (MUN) and Model Parliament (MP). The conference exposed students to the process of how laws are created and implemented through the interplay between various stakeholders, including international organisations such as the United Nations, National Parliament, Media and Civil Society. This helped to demonstrate how citizens (including children) can have an impact and be a part of the solution.

Inventure initiated the Model Parliament (India), a first time simulation of the interaction between the Central and State governments, the Economic Council and the Media. The objective of this was to enable students to understand the importance of dialogue in society and in our political system, and enabling legislation that empowers and takes advantage of our demographic dividend. Through debate, discussion and perspective building, student delegates from various schools deliberated in different Committees on pressing issues like Child Safety, Water Crisis, Economic Development and Youth Involvement in Politics. Post this exercise, Committees drafted Bills, keeping as close as possible to Parliamentary procedures.