Serving over 1 million students, Agastya International Foundation runs mobile science learning labs, Science centers and Labs on Bikes across 23 Indian states. Its mission is “to spark curiosity, nurture creativity, and instill confidence and caring” in economically disadvantaged children and government schoolteachers by bringing imaginative and innovative hands-on STEAM education and design-thinking through experiential, project-based and peer-to-peer learning to …

Stones2Milestones (S2M)—a research-based edutech company has announced its partnership with Finnish Global Education Solutions (FGES)—a member of the Education Finland program controlled by the Finnish National Agency for Education.  The FGES team has shown keen interest in adopting S2M’s flagship product, the Freadom reading app, into their educational landscape, given its proven success in enhancing English and reading skills. At a public signing …

IBM, a global computing cutting-edge technology company, has entered into collaboration with the Ministry of Education (MoE) and the Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (MSDE) to equip students with future-ready skills across all three core levels of education: School Education, Higher Education, & Vocational Skills. Under this collaboration 8 MoUs were signed on September 27 in New Delhi in …

EMBIBE, the Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered learning & outcomes platform, has announced a partnership with Army Welfare Education Society (AWES), which runs 136 Army Public Schools. As a result these schools will have access to AI-led personalised and adaptive education offered by the edtech firm. Through this partnership, all schools will be empowered with EMBIBE’s NEP-aligned world-class technology, proprietary apps, and digital resources to provide …

Subhash Shine, a 14-year old student from Kerala has been declared winner of the All India Coding Championship (AICC) on 25th Dec 2022 by CuriousJr, an online coding platform for kids. Shashwat Acharya from Darjeeling and Saion Gupta from New Delhi have secured first, second and third ranks respectively. The coding competition was the second edition of India’s first mobile …

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar in Punjab and Monash University, Australia have developed a unique detector named ‘FakeBuster’ to identify imposters attending a virtual conference without anybody’s knowledge. It can also find out faces manipulated on social media to defame or make a joke of someone. A paper on this technique – FakeBuster: A DeepFakes Detection Tool …