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Five young teams win Block Covid, a global startup challenge. Indian Edtech startup Kidzpreneur gets roped in to bring their ideas to reality

The pandemic has revolutionized the education ecosystem globally. The current generation is witnessing an unprecedented event which has caused staggering economic and social challenges globally. This new normal calls for an urgent need to equip students with not only basic education but also life skills to embrace themselves with challenges in the real world. Kidzpreneur, an Indian Edtech startup, with its unique transformative learning mechanism aims to develop a more aware and conscious future, thought leaders. This has caught the attention of global groups such as BLOCK COVID Initiative which recently ran a global program for children to solve challenges for the new world in times of the current pandemic. They sought partnership with Kidzpreneur for supporting their winners whilst helping them understand and create viable businesses out of their selected ideas.

Since its inception, Kidzpreneur is working on providing a unique and transformative learning platform for students from age 10 onwards, enabling them to understand the current global crisis and to foresee future challenges in their lives. The idea is to make them self-aware of their thoughts, choices and how they can impact others while imbibing qualities like empathy, creativity, teamwork, design thinking etc. and not fear failure.

Kidzpreneur through its innovative programs has created quite a buzz in the global startup arena. Block Covid, a startup challenge run by Global shapers community partnered with Kidzpreneur to coach their 5 winning teams and support their ideas to spread awareness and bring in change about Covid19.

“We, at Kidzpreneur, believe that young minds should get opportunities to work on global problems. Sometimes, we need a fresh start and an idea to drive that change. The youth today is more aware and positive to make their mark. We also strongly believe in the youth taking charge, coming up with solutions to deal with problems and playing an active role in shaping the future. Our programs are designed to help the young entrepreneurs create their footprint with their ideas while making them more feasible. Therefore, we were approached by the BLOCK COVID Initiative for support in achieving their goals to bring their ideas to reality,” said Amit Mishra, Co-founder, Kidzpreneur.

“Kidzpreneur believes in hands-on learning and creating an environment which is important to implement simulations or real-time scenarios coupled with gamification of critical management lessons for effective learning. This is achieved with a sound amalgamation of technology and creative ideas to improve on learning that students can practice in the real world too. There would many more such global partnerships with us in the new normal period,” he added.

Kidzpreneur learnings are a blend of activity-based hours including real interaction with entrepreneurs, investors, innovators, and ecosystem players to help learn from industry stalwarts at a young age. Kidzpreneur team crafts the ideas of students into more validated business plans with training, mentoring, insights and provides any other additional entrepreneurial assistance to bring ideas to life. With a wide sphere of influence, Kidzpreneur has students from India, Taiwan, HongKong, USA and the Philippines.

Projects such as an Online Museum for Cultural Exchange and Online Tutoring for students with special learning needs by the students, for the students, were among the winning ideas. Kidzpreneur primarily focuses on transformative development in education using an entrepreneurial mindset and technology. The founders believe that development of life skills and cognitive thinking is important at an early age.

As Kidzpreneur focuses on transformative development in education, the Global Shapers were in perfect alignment with it for training support. The community of Global Shapers comprises of a network of young people who have the desire to drive dialogue, action and change.

Future Perfect: Kidzpreneur’s ‘fail to learn’ program transforms the ways India nurtures Entrepreneurship

Kidzpreneur, a unique and transformative learning platform for students 10+ onwards and is an initiative by Innoscale Global Foundation, has launched an innovative programme – ‘Fail to Learn’ to promote entrepreneurship among young minds. The program focuses on shaping ideas, team building, validation tools, investments & negotiations soft skills. The goal is to catch them young and lead them towards analytical and logical thinking while executing their ideas.

“We aim to support selective smart ideas that show promise for business aptitude by investing real money and give our own experience and practical exposure with the financial freedom to execute under our ‘fail to learn’ program,” says Shishir Miglani, Founder, Kidzpreneur who is a serial entrepreneur, technology proponent and believer in the prowess of technology.

Kidzpreneur was founded by young and innovative entrepreneur Shishir Miglani, Amit Mishra, and Monika Miglani. The founders believe in hands-on learning and to create that environment we implement simulation or real-time scenarios coupled with gamification of critical management lessons for effective learning. This is achieved with a sound amalgamation of technology and creative ideas to improve on learning that students can practice in the real world too.

With a purpose-designed mission – ‘We Coach, You Pitch, We Invest,’ the startup company-Kidzpreneur invests in teams with promising ideas and even at the cost to failing. The company is motivated to bridge the gap of future thought leadership globally. It is a unique initiative where learning is not just limited to classes though students are encouraged and money is invested to bring their ideas, dreams and innovation to real life.

“We intend to offer a sense of financial freedom and strength of trying without fear of failure. We empower them to succeed, we support failure, as they improve the spirit of entrepreneurship and should be respected. Our Programme – Fail to Learn-especially focuses on this,” adds Co-Founder Amit Mishra who is also an entrepreneur and enabler in the Indian startup ecosystem for almost a decade.

Kidzpreneur learnings are essentially a mix of activity-based hours including real interaction with entrepreneurs, investors, angels, innovators and ecosystem players to help students build networks at a younger age.

Once the skilling is over Kidzpreneur helps young talents to come up with innovative ideas, that it gets them to pitch. “Good ideas get investment from us and we help them bring these ideas to life in the real world. If the students/team so wishes to continue. We bring them directly to our government recognized accelerator and promote further,” says Shishir.

Kidzpreneur primarily focuses on transformative development in education using an entrepreneurial mindset and technology.