CBSE/SE/DIR(SE)/YI/2023 Dated: 29th Sep 2023

NOTIFICATION

YOUTH IDEATHON 2023

Management Entrepreneurship Professional Skills Council (MEPSC) under Ministry of Skill
Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE), Govt. of India and ThinkStartup are organizing
YOUTH IDEATHON 2023, India’s Largest K-12 School Level Ideas Festival to harness innovation
and entrepreneurship potential on young minds of India.

YOUTH IDEATHON 2023 is a 5-stage competition that shall be launched on 6th October 2023
and the finals shall be held on 18th Nov 2023. The theme of this event is “iStartup a Good Thing
for India”. This is an online event. For fair representation of schools and students from each
region, this year YOUTH IDEATHON shall have regional rounds. School students can submit their
innovation ideas on the website www.YouthIdeathon.in.

YOUTH IDEATHON 2023 intends to provide following benefits

 Build innovation and entrepreneurial mindset in our school students.

 Encourage school students to research about ground level problems and
find creative solutions to those problems.
 Channelize youth energy in solving nation’s problems.
 There will be free online HIGMID workshops for students by entrepreneurs -
How I Got My Idea (HIGMID) (details on website).
 Faculty Workshops (details on website).
 National Level, State Level and Theme Award winner students shall be
provided. incubation and mentoring support through various incubators.

For more details, please refer to the annexure.

The session for faculty and student on the topic “How to get Good Ideas” will be conducted by the
organizers on 11th October, 2023 & 18th October, 2023. Faculty / Students can register for this
workshop on the website (www.YouthIdeathon.in)

Heads of all the affiliated schools must encourage their students and faculty to participate
in this unique program in a big way.

For registration and other details please visit www.YouthIdeathon.in

For feedback and any queries, please write to: [email protected], [email protected]

(Dr. Biswajit Saha)

Director (Skill Education)
Copy to the respective Heads of Directorates, Organizations and Institutions as indicated below
with a request to disseminate the information to all the schools under their jurisdiction:

1. The Commissioner, Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan, 18, Institutional Area, Shaheed Jeet Singh Marg,
Delhi.
2. The Commissioner, Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti, B-15, Sector-62, Institutional Area, Noida - 201309.
3. The Director of Education, Directorate of Education, Govt. of NCT of Delhi, Old Secretariat, Delhi -
110054
4. The Director of Public Instructions (Schools), Union Territory Secretariat, Sector 9, Chandigarh -
160017
5. The Director of Education, Govt. of Sikkim, Gangtok, Sikkim - 737101
6. The Director of School Education, Govt. of Arunachal Pradesh, Itanagar - 791 111
7. The Director of Education, Govt. of Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Port Blair - 744101
8. The Director, Central Tibetan School Administration, ESSESS Plaza, Community Centre, Sector 3,
Rohini
9. The Secretary, Sainik Schools Society, Room No.101, D-1 Wing, Sena Bhawan, New Delhi-110001
10. The Additional Director General of Army Education, A – Wing, Sena Bhawan, DHQ, PO, New Delhi
11. The Secretary AWES, Integrated Headquarters of MoD (Army), FDRC Building No. 202, Shankar
Vihar (Near APS), Delhi Cantt – 110010
12. The Secretary Eklavya Model Residential Schools (EMRS), Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Government of
India.
13. The Chairman, Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya Sangathan, N-1/9, Near Doordarshan Kendra, PO Sainik
School Nayapalli, Bhubaneswar, Odisha-751005.
14. The Deputy Secretary to Chairperson, CBSE - for kind information of the Chairperson, CBSE
15. All the Heads of Department of the Board
16. All the Regional Directors/Regional Officers/Head-COEs, CBSE with the request to send this circular
to all the Heads of the affiliated schools of the Board in their respective regions for compliance
17. Head (Media & Public Relations), CBSE
18. Joint Secretary (IT), CBSE, Rouse Avenue with the request to upload this notification on the CBSE
Academic website.

Director (Skill Education)

 Annexure

YOUTH IDEATHON 2023

Started in 2021, YOUTH IDEATHON (www.YouthIdeathon.in) is India’s most

exciting innovation and entrepreneurship competition for school students. The ideathon contest
engages with youth to energize them and connect with their passions to discover societal
problems and propose solutions that can make lives of humanity better. Its motto is MERA
IDEA JO BADAL DE BHARAT, thereby implying, an idea that can change India.

In the 2022 edition, more than 95000 school students from over 7000 schools. Now we are all
set to launch Youth Ideathon 2023

Government of India through its initiatives like New Education Policy (NEP 2020), Atma
Nirbhar Bharat, Startup India, Make in India has put emphasis on developing creative
potential in school students. Therefore, it is important to take this message of innovation and
entrepreneurship to the youth of today to encourage them to develop the spirit of innovation
and harness their potential to dream futuristic ideas and make it happen.

Youth Ideathon 2023 (YI23) shall build upon the work of the 2nd edition of Youth Ideathon to
carry forward the mission of developing school level entrepreneurship.

YI23 festival is designed to encourage school students all across India to explore
entrepreneurship through ideation, prototyping and idea pitch to expert panel. It is expected to
generate participation from over 200,000 school students from all parts of India – cities, towns,
villages, everywhere.

YI23: OBJECTIVES
The objectives of Youth Ideathon 2023 are as below:

1. Encourage school students to dream big and build real solutions.

2. Develop the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship in school students
3. Recognise efforts of motivated school teachers / mentors and schools who are
working behind the scenes to develop entrepreneurship in schools
4. Nurture high potential student ideas with incubation support
5. Open doors of angel funding for incubated student ventures

YI23: WHO IS IT FOR?

YI23 aspires that school level innovation and entrepreneurship should be captured,
rewarded and harnessed.
This can be achieved only with the participation of critical school education stakeholders
– students, teachers and school.

Who is it for?
1. YI23 is OPEN for registration for following categories:
a. All Bona-fide School Students from any school board – Central,
State or International.
b. Teachers and Mentors of School Students
c. Schools

2. STUDENTS: YI23 is OPEN for all K12 School Students. However, students
have to participate in teams of 3 to 5 members. Each member must be a bona-
fide school student. YI22 shall reward best teams.

3. TEACHERS / MENTORS: YI23 is also open to all school teachers / mentors.

However, a teacher must have a student team who she is mentoring. YI23
shall special rewards for Teachers of Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

4. SCHOOLS: YI23 is also open to all Schools from any Board – Central / State
/ International. There are special rewards for Schools of Innovation and
Entrepreneurship, on the basis of student and teacher participation.
YI23: FORMAT
YI22 is a 5-tiered innovation competition with a unique 5th tier that focusses on
incubating high-potential student ideas into ventures.
Stage 1
Online Idea Submission on YI23 portal
Stage 2
Select Top 1000 Teams - YouTube Video Pitch
Stage 3
Select Top 100 (10x10) - Team Interview
Stage 4
Select Top 25 for Rs. 10,000 Award
Stage 5
Top 10 for Incubation Grant

Stage 2 is also crowd engagement where teams upload their pitch on YouTube to get
recommendations. Our algorithm gives a “Crowd Score” based on recommendations,
comments, likes and views. In parallel, our Expert Panel then screens each idea and give
an ‘Expert Score” based on “Idea Impact” and “Implementation Potential”.

Stage 3 is Top 100 Teams based on TOTAL SCORE of Stage 2. To create the Top 100 List
with shall be Top 10 Teams from (9+1) regions namely Ahmedabad, Chandigarh, Delhi,
Lucknow, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bengaluru, and Mumbai. These are mapped to
following States and UTs.

Region States and UTs

Ahmedabad Gujarat, Daman & Diu, Dadra Nagar & Haveli, Madhya Pradesh
and Rajasthan
Chandigarh Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu, Kashmir, Ladakh &
Chandigarh
Delhi Delhi and Haryana
 Lucknow Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Bihar and Jharkhand
Kolkata West Bengal, Sikkim, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur,
Nagaland, Mizoram, Meghalaya and Tripura
Hyderabad Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Odisha
Chennai Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Pondicherry and A&N Islands
Bengaluru Karnataka, Goa and Lakshadweep
Mumbai Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh

In addition, Organizing Team shall have the liberty to select 10 more meritorious teams left
out from any region due to competition. Thus, Stage 3 shall have a total of 100 teams.
YI23: EVENT SCHEDULE
The Event Calendar is as below:

Key Activities Dates

Youth Ideathon Launch with CBSE 6th Oct 2023
Student Webinars 6th Oct to 25th Oct 2023
Train the Teacher Sessions 6th Oct to 25th Oct 2023
Stage 1 - Idea Submission Portal Closes 27th Oct 2023
Stage 2 - Top 1000 List 29th Oct 2023
YouTube Video Pitch Round – Last Date of
30th Oct 2023
Submission

Top 1000 Mentoring Session 29th Oct to 2nd Nov 2023

Wisdom of Crowds – Popular Idea Activity 4th Nov to 8th Nov 2023
Stage 3 - Top 100 List 9th Nov 2023
Top 100 Online Interviews 10th – 11th Nov 2023
Stage 4 - Top 25 List for Rs. 10,000 Award 11th Nov 2023
Pilot Building Phase for Top 25 Teams 12th Nov to 18th Nov 2023
FINAL PITCH 19th Nov 2023 (Sun)
Awards and Felicitations 19th Nov 2023 (Sun)

Youth Ideathon runs on a tight schedule. Schools are advised to keep students in readiness
for the next stage as per the schedule.

YI23: PRIZES
This YOUTH IDEATHON has substantially higher number of awards and prizes. These are
designed to incentivize students as they achieve higher level of complexity. Further, there are
awards for Teachers, Mentors and Schools who are engaged in the furtherance of cause of
innovation and entrepreneurship.
Category Awards and Prizes
Top 1000 Teams

Certificate to all team members and

teacher / mentors

Certificate to all team members and

teacher / mentors
Wisdom of Crowd Award for Top 3
+
team in YouTube Pitch
Access to Young Ideator Program (worth
Rs. 5,000)

Certificate to all team members and

teacher / mentors
Top 100 Teams +
Access to Young Ideator Program (worth
Rs. 5,000)

Certificate to all team members and

teacher / mentors
+
Top 25 Teams Cash Award of Rs. 10,000 per team
+
Cash Grant of Rs. 5000 to the Teacher
Mentor

Certificate to all team members and

teacher / mentors
Top 10 Teams +
Progress based Innovation Grant of upto
Rs. 1 Lakh per team

Teacher of Innovation Award Certificate of Recognition

School of Innovation Award Certificate of Recognition + Trophy
The Additional Awards are as below:

STATE AWARDS Awards and Prizes

Top 3 Entries from Each State State Rank Certificate

WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION Awards and Prizes

Students & Teachers attending various

workshops shall also get participation Participation Certificate
certificate.