Children Club in Schools

"The child's mind is in its purest form and has no divisive tendencies. We should let it blossom to the fullest."

- Dr. A.P.J.Kalam, Former President of India.


National Innovation Foundation announces the launch of NIF Creativity and Innovation clubs in schools across the country.

The Objective To have a network of innovation clubs in schools, which will be proactive in supporting and nurturing creative initiatives of children, making them more receptive to the surrounding nature and people around. To imbue in the students, the Honey Bee philosophy, that is to spread knowledge around without harming the interests of the knowledge holder, just like the Honey bee that flies from flower to flower, sucking nectar, pollinating flowers, without harming the flowers in any way

The Plan These school clubs will have two nominated teacher incharges and one student representative of each standard from 7th to 11th. Thus, the club will be managed by five student representatives and two teacher representatives. The other members would comprise of students who have a) submitted interesting ideas/innovations of themselves b) scouted innovations/ideas of others and c) done both. Competitions will be organised in different zones and winners will move on to the next interzonal level and then to the state/national level. After crossing each hurdle (zone/region/state), the student/school will rise in the club hierarchy.

The winners will by default be a part of NIF’s Biennial National Competition. Various engaging activities have been planned for the students like excursions, workshops, walks in rural and urban areas like slums to sensitise them and invoke in them the seven Es propounded by Honey Bee Network and SRISTI (Ethics, Efficiency, Equity, Excellence, Empathy, Education, Environment).
During the summer vacations, schools will nominate students to attend an educational excursion (7 days) wherein they would be exposed to/will undertake the following activities.
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1) Orientation about scouting & documentation
2) Methods of data collection (plant samples, building case studies etc)
3) Mentored pilot field visit
4) Field visit for data collection
5) Compilation of collected data
6) Presentation and award/certificate distribution