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New Delhi, June 2026: IIIT-Delhi welcomed Delhi's Education Minister, Shri Ashish Sood, as the Chief Guest at the 'Tech4Future' Innovation Showcase.
The Showcase was the conclusion of the 'Future Makers Innovators Bootcamp', a three-week-long, intensive, STEM and Robotics Engineering program for high-potential students from Delhi Government's CM SHRI Schools.
At the event, the Directorate of Education established a historic three-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with four of the premier Delhi Universities, DTU, DSEU, IGDTUW, and IIIT-Delhi.
Starting in June 2026, the Universities will offer free mentorship and provide CM SHRI students and teachers free access to their enriched curriculum and labs, in an effort to address the school and higher education gap. The government's Tech4Future program illustrates the incorporation of public school systems with more advanced AI and technology-based education. The initiative is a step in the direction of the NEP 2020 and the NCF-SE 2023, where the resources and programs offered to a child do not rely on, but rather on their potential. To become future leaders in Technology and help the Nation achieve its 2047 Vision of skilled citizens, early engagement with tech is vital.
Through a challenging and multi-stage identification program, the government of Delhi selected students from CM SHRI Schools based on their aptitudes, interests, and engagement in the sciences. Only 100 students were selected. The students who were chosen participated in an interdisciplinary team of 20 and received 140 hours of intensive, mentor-based STEM training conducted in blocks. IIIT-Delhi provides students and teachers with advanced academic infrastructure and resources, such as 3D printers, advanced fabrication labs, and Maker Spaces.
They experience the complete cycle of innovation from recognizing a problem in the world to ideating and prototyping, then testing and pitching their solution to the world. With the given resources, the devised solutions of 20 different teams were functional technology prototypes of innovations to aid smart cities, agriculture, disaster response and management, and industrial innovations, as well as assistive technologies.
During the program, Delhi Education Minister Shri Ashish Sood stated that with the advent of high-tech engineering and artificial intelligence solutions, the program hinges on the vision of NEP 2020 and ensures that students from the Government Schools of Delhi have access to them at their doorstep. The initiative, according to the Minister, moves beyond robotics and artificial intelligence and expands educational support to the domains of Finance, Humanities, Media Studies, and Legal Studies.
He also remarked that the partnership with some of Delhi’s top universities will provide government school students with the opportunity to be exposed to world-class research labs, startup incubation facilities, and advanced tech infrastructure. Through this collaboration, university faculty and research scholars will offer their services to mentor the students and provide teacher training, all at no cost. The aim is to create a plan for developing a highly skilled workforce that is innovative and aligned with the goal of Viksit Bharat (Developed India) by the year 2047.
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