IDEAT R
Schools across the world have immense untapped potential to help young people become the best versions of themselves.
To dream,
to connect
and create.
Ideator is a hackathon style accelerator implemented in partnership with the Ministry of Education in Sri Lanka. The program is focused on equipping young people aged 14-19 with creative skills in leadership and advocacy to develop a Design Thinking mindset in becoming socially conscious young change-makers.
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The pilot phase is a part of a broader initiative that is mapping ways of integrating the content of the program into the local curricula to be rolled out across every school in Sri Lanka.
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Screening
Reaching out to school principals and teachers to bring together cohorts of 60 students coming from the same community but a mix of schools and demographic makeup.
Accelerator
The cohort comes together for a three day accelerator where they're taken through a Design Thinking process and a series of team-building, empathy mapping and confidence building sessions.
Hackathon
On Day 3 the cohort is split according to their interests and tasked with a community mapping activity to locate a pressing community issue and to design an intervention.
Connecting
The teams then pitch their ideas to a panel consisting of local government officials, donors and potential mentors. The most viable interventions are then matched with local support, mentorship and funding.
