Founders and CEOs of top Indian companies volunteer to become ‘Super Mentors’ for NITI Aayog’s recently launched Mentor India initiative. Envisaged to be India’s largest formal mentor network, Mentor India aims to engage professionals from the industry and academic world to voluntarily guide and mentor students in 900 plus Atal Tinkering labs (ATls) across India.
The ‘Super Mentors’, who are established entrepreneurs across various fields, will conduct mentor sessions with school children to give direction to ideas of young innovators and to create innovators in the future. The first in a series of these sessions was conducted by Radhika Aggarwal, co-founder, ShopClues at the Gyan Mandir School Tinkering lab, Naraina Vihar. ATls are dedicated workspaces for students to learn problem-solving, innovative skills and to develop ideas to transform India by tinkering with latest technologies. One of the primary initiatives of the Atal Innovation Mission, ATls are a crucial effort by the Government of India to promote a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship in the country.
R Ramanan, Mission Director, Atal Innovation Mission, added, “Atal Innovation Mission is committed to creating an ecosystem of innovation nationwide. The Atal Tinkering labs is a significant initiative to foster a problem-solving innovative mindset in school students leveraging latest technologies for learning problem solving and thereby create the innovators of tomorrow. We are grateful to all mentors for their support to this noble cause”.