CBSE : Innovation, Design, and Entrepreneurship (IDE) Bootcamps from 4th & 5th April 2024 and 9th & 10th April 2024

CBSE : Innovation, Design, and Entrepreneurship (IDE) Bootcamps from 4th & 5th April 2024 and 9th & 10th April 2024

CBSE/SE/JS/IDE/2024

Dated: 11.03.2024
Circular No.: Skill-22/2024

To

Heads of all schools affiliated with the Board

Subject: Innovation, Design, and Entrepreneurship (IDE) Bootcamps from 4th & 5th April 2024 and 9th & 10th April 2024.

As you are aware that the School Innovation Contest part of the School Innovation Council (SIC) was launched on 28th August 2023 to motivate, handhold, and nurture school students’ bright ideas and Innovations and fund the selected innovations to build Products/Technology/Startups.

So far more than 23,800 teachers have completed the School Innovation Ambassador Program (https://sia.mic.gov.in). More than 5,100 schools have registered for the School Innovation Council and more than 6,700 ideas have been submitted by student innovators to participate in the School Innovation Contest (https://sic.mic.gov.in).

With an aim to nurture the innovation, design, and entrepreneurial skills of student innovators and ambassadors from higher education institutes and schools, two days “Innovation, Design, and Entrepreneurship (IDE) Bootcamps” for School Teachers and Innovation Ambassadors shall be organised in various parts of the country as per the below mentioned schedule:

The IDE Bootcamps are being jointly organized by the Department of School Education and Literacy (DoSEL), Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), Ministry of Education’s Innovation Cell (MIC) and the National Council of Education Research and Training (NCERT)

Principals of all CBSE affiliated schools must nominate a teacher from their school to participate in the Bootcamps by registering through the link mentioned above on or before 15th March 2024. Teachers selected for the IDE Bootcamps will be informed through email by the Innovation Cell of the Ministry of Education.

Please note:

• Fee: There is No Registration fee for participation.
• Who can register: Teams participated in the School Innovation Contest, schools registered for the School Innovation Council, Innovation Ambassadors, participants of hackathons and skill expos and Teachers involved / interested in the innovation-related activities.
• Travelling arrangement/ reimbursement: Sleeper Class train or bus on reimbursement mode, Accommodation (on first come first serve basis for outstation participants only) and Food will be provided to the participants.
• For further details, please contact Dr. Elangovan Kariappan, Ministry of Education’s Innovation Cell by Phone (+91-6388554380 / 8130617707) or email ([email protected]).

Director (Skill Education)

Copy to the respective Heads of Directorates, Organizations and Institutions as indicated below with a request to disseminate the information to all the schools under their jurisdiction:

1. The Commissioner, Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan, 18, Institutional Area, Shaheed Jeet Singh Marg, Delhi- 110016
2. The Commissioner, Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti, B-15, Sector-62, Institutional Area, Noida – 201309
3. The Director of Education, Directorate of Education, Govt. of NCT of Delhi, Old Secretariat, Delhi – 110054
4. The Director of Public Instructions (Schools), Union Territory Secretariat, Sector 9, Chandigarh – 160017
5. The Director of Education, Govt. of Sikkim, Gangtok, Sikkim – 737101
6. The Director of School Education, Govt. of Arunachal Pradesh, Itanagar – 791 111
7. The Director of Education, Govt. of Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Port Blair – 744101
8. The Director, Central Tibetan School Administration, ESSESS Plaza, Community Centre, Sector 3, Rohini, New Delhi
9. The Secretary, Sainik Schools Society, Room No.101, D-1 Wing, Sena Bhawan, New Delhi-110001
10. The Additional Director, General of Army Education, A – Wing, Sena Bhawan, DHQ, PO, New Delhi –110001
11. The Secretary, AWES, Integrated Headquarters of MoD (Army), FDRC Building No. 202, Shankar Vihar (Near APS), Delhi Cantt – 110010
12. The Secretary, Eklavya Model Residential Schools (EMRS), Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Government of India
13. The Chairman, Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya Sangathan, N-1/9, Near Doordarshan Kendra, PO Sainik School Nayapalli, Bhubaneswar, Odisha-751005
14. The Deputy Secretary to Chairman, CBSE – for kind information of the Chairman, CBSE
15. All the Heads of Department/ Directors of the Board
16. All the Regional Directors/Regional Officers/Head-COEs, CBSE with the request to send this circular to all the Heads of the affiliated schools of the Board in their respective regions for compliance
17. Director (Media & Public Relations), CBSE – with a request to give wider publicity to this notification.
18. Joint Secretary (IT), CBSE, Rouse Avenue with the request to upload this notification on the CBSE Academic website
19. Incharge, Hindi Cell, CBSE HQ – for Hindi Translation of this notification

Director (Skill Education)