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Standings & Awards
3 out of 779 in Education
2 out of 173 in Scale
4 out of 555 in For-Profit
10 out of 4003 Overall
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The K-12 Education Market in India is 20 billion US$ in size. With 1,400,000 schools, India is the 3rd highest producer of graduates after USA & China. However, in the recently conducted PISA+ Test (2009) by OECD, 15 year old Indian students finished 2nd from last from 74 regions across the world. According to the test, the application ability of 8th Graders in India was equivalent to 3rd Graders in Taiwan. Nascomm-Mckinsey Survey states that only 25% technical and 15% humanities graduates in India are employable. Also, Indian students lack empathy, team and soft skills which hamper their chances of a promising work life. The education system in India is dominated by ‘rote learning’. Examination is valued higher than education. In nearly all cases, good students mostly end up as poor human resource primarily due to no emphasis on application based learning. There is a huge gap between the theoretical and practical knowledge a student gains in school. The actual concept building grades (3rd Grade to 8th Grade) are devoid of practical training. So, we created a kinesthetic lab facility called Gyan (knowledge) Lab that encourages and allows school kids (Grades 3 - 9) to learn practical concepts in Science, Social Science, Electronics, Robotics, Mathematics and Pre-vocational Learning (day to day activities and utilities) in a hands-on manner using practical experiments, activities and model-making. Our facility is usually setup within a school free of cost and students attend it at an annual fee. We have championed the Constructivism Pedagogy (a new phenomenon in India) and have aligned our work to the best 5 curriculum standards of the world to give the most comprehensive real-life skills to school students at the most affordable prices. We have setup Gyan Labs at 5 schools already and are expanding to 30 in 2013-14. Gyan Meter, our Learning Measurement Tool, is India’s first unique indigenously built learning measurement tool for school kids. The evaluation is based on 7 different abilities of the brain. Our Gyan Lab manuals for students are completely pictorial (something like IKEA) which gives students the freedom to learn faster and better. We have also been providing full fee waiver to students from economically backward families and are looking to setup our 1st free community lab.

















