About us
February 13, 2023 2025-02-19 11:51About us
The Innovation Champions’ Club is the brainchild of its founders,
Nandita, a management consultant, and Neha, a visual and performing artist.
They combine the skills from their varied backgrounds, to bring a unique and relevant programme.
The Club is a programme and an alternative pedagogical platform where children can express their wildest creative ideas in a constructive way.
It is a virtual space where children are inspired, free to be themselves and to make connections and global networks.
It is a virtual space where children are inspired, free to be themselves and to make connections and global networks.
The programme is supported by an app that guides them through their journey towards innovation in the form of live virtual classes and recorded content explaining concepts and presenting them with fun challenges.
From ideas for fuel alternatives to innovative dog walkers and more, the young innovators will develop and build an exciting innovation portfolio – a collection of ideas recorded in the form of videos and photographs in worksheets that they will share with their fellow clubbers.
From ideas for fuel alternatives to innovative dog walkers and more, the young innovators will develop and build an exciting innovation portfolio – a collection of ideas recorded in the form of videos and photographs in worksheets that they will share with their fellow clubbers.
Screen time is balanced with physical activities like collecting objects and repurposing them to make unique prototypes for their inventions. Importantly, they will learn to communicate and express themselves through various mediums – poetry, art, design, theatre and more, in the course of their journey towards innovation.
is to ingrain in children the idea of value creation in new and unique ways, going beyond the boundaries of conventional wisdom for them to feel empowered by their capabilities to create a better future for themselves and for the world they inhabit.
According to the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs report, the top three skills required at work in pandemic-stricken 2020 were:
Data shows that by 2030, 65% of students in elementary schools will end up working jobs that do not even exist today, and 800 million jobs will be lost worldwide due to automation.
Nandita completed her MS in Finance and then worked with KPMG in India before doing her MBA from Imperial College Business School. On completing her MS, an intensive programme, she felt that if asked a question, she was proficient in theory but had no confidence to apply her education in the corporate world. While pursuing her MBA in London, she stumbled upon a Harvard Business Review article on ‘Design Thinking’.
Based on intensive study, Nandita created different short courses and workshops tailored for people of different age groups and backgrounds including corporate professionals, entrepreneurs and older students. With her sister Neha, she finally created the programme called The Innovation Champions’ Club which takes children through the entire journey of innovation.
Neha’s Journey began with her choice of education itself – she is a graduate of the Royal College of Art in London and was a student of Fine Art, MSU, Baroda, as well as the Golden Bridge Pottery, Pondicherry. Innovation, for her, translates into an alternate way of living and working on a farm in rural Maharashtra.
Always curious and interested in numerous things at the same time, Neha has developed a multidisciplinary practice over the years. She has chosen to negotiate various roles – as dancer, ceramicist, researcher, teacher, choreographer, administrator, activist, collaborator – that inform one another and broaden her approach as an artist and maker.
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So what are you waiting for?
Join us in our mission to create a better future where we recognize and value each child’s uniqueness, passion, hobbies, and humour, bound by the common vision of value creation.
