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TMI BlogAtal Innovation Mission successfully completes two-month long, one of its kind ‘ATL Tinkerpreneur Bootcamp’ across countryX X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... Atal Innovation Mission successfully completes two-month long, one of its kind ‘ATL Tinkerpreneur Bootcamp’ across country X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... for high school students across the nation, 'ATL Tinkerpreneur' saw a record-breaking 9000+ participants (including 4000+ girl participants) across 32 states and 298 districts. The Bootcamp witnessed participation from 820 ATLs, 50+ live expert speaker sessions were conducted with over 4.5 lakh views and imparted 30+ digital and entrepreneurial skills. 'Tinkerpreneur' - the name derived from th ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... e phrase 'enabling students to tinker from the comfort of their homes and become an entre preneur this summer' was a bootcamp focussed on cultivating a hands-on innovative mindset among students. Spread across a span of 9 weeks from 31st May 2021 to 1st August 2021, 'ATL Tinkerpreneur' enabled the participants to develop a business idea and create an end-to-end strategy for setting up a new ventu ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... re. Over the course of the bootcamp, the participants learnt the required digital skills, created and developed a business model around a digital product, generated a marketing plan, developed/established an online store, learnt business finance and culminated it by presenting their pitch deck in front of Industry experts. Students along with their ATL in-charges were mapped in small groups with ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... Mentors-of-Change. All those who registered got access to a repository of digital and entrepreneurial curated learning resources, do-it-yourself content, simple assignments etc. to empower the participants to create their own digital products and ventures. Emphasising on inculcating a hands-on and innovative mindset during the finale session, Mission Director AIM, NITI Aayog Dr Chintan Vaishnav s ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... aid "The whole bootcamp was designed to instil an innovative mindset as well as to help students go from an idea to a venture in a short time, by trying-failing-and trying again. We wanted them to experience both the creation of a solution as well as a business around it. As they learnt these skills by 'doing', we expect these learnings to stay with them throughout their life's journey ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ." Speaking during the virtual finale session of the bootcamp, Founder Infosys Mr. Narayana Murthy said, "A leader has to be a uniter and not a divider. The most important responsibility of a leader is to raise the aspiration, confidence, energy, and enthusiasm of the people and teammates around. The leader must do whatever is necessary to make a person feel an inch taller in the leader' ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... s presence." He further added, addressing young innovators, "if you become a leader, ensure that people that come to you leave with higher confidence in them. His or her main job is to craft a vision that is aspirational and individually rises above region, religion, caste, and economic clauses. A leader has to imagine something that nobody has dreamt of, moving towards this requires a lot of sac ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... rifice, hard work, discipline, deferred gratification, confidence, hope & enthusiasm. Such attributes come to the people when the followers trust the leader." Meanwhile, participants leveraged the knowledge and hands-on involvement of 650+ Mentors (including 180+ women mentors), inculcated and applied their inputs and improved upon their ventures. With inputs from industry leaders, regular s ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... essions by guest speakers in 6 regional languages (Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada) and a positive environment provided students a thorough introduction to entrepreneurship along with an opportunity to network with fellow innovators from across the country. An exclusive Tinkerpreneur web portal was also created with a curated 9-week content for self-paced learning. The portal ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... enabled the students to submit quizzes, assignments and enabled the mentors to review student assignments and share feedback. X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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