S. Vishnu Sharma
Avishkaar, a leading next-generation technology education provider joined hands with Flipkart to offer curated online courses.
The courses would be offered along with purchase of laptops and tablets to enhance students’ learning potential.
Flipkart is homegrown e-commerce marketplace and Avishkaar will be providing Innovators Launchpad Course to enable children as young as eight years old to learn the basics of robotics, electronics, coding and application development with expert trainers all for free.
Avishkaar to offer great curated online courses
In addition to this, Flipkart customers will be able to avail Avishkaar Robotics and IoT Kits and Microdegrees for children in an affordable manner.
The collaboration between Flipkart and Avishkaar is a part of three month long ‘Back to School’ campaign announced earlier in April and is aimed at enhancing the learning potential of students as digital learning takes precedence.
It is interesting to note that a survey conducted by Avishkaar among 5,000 parents and 5,000 children gauged the perception of parents of young children, as well as the children themselves on their career aspirations in STEM and next-generation technology fields.
The survey by Avishkaar brought out that 53 percent of the parent respondents use the hands-on learning approach to keep up their children’s interest levels in next-gen tech and STEM subjects.
This includes toys and kits that help their children with application-based learning.
This, along with the rise in digital learning due to the pandemic-induced lockdowns make it imperative for students to choose the right set of computing devices namely laptops and tablets to have an immersive learning experience.
Pooja Goyal, COO and Co-founder of Avishkaar said Flipkart’s campaign is a great initiative to inspire children to master technology skills when lockdowns are forcing children to stay home.
Avishkaar sets the gold standard for learning next-generation technology skills like Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, IoT and coding and we are thrilled to partner with Flipkart to make it accessible for children across India, he said.
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Also, with the right computing devices offered by Flipkart coupled with Avishkaar kits and courses, children will be able to better learn by building, breaking and re-building chapters, said Pooja Goyal.
Rakesh Krishnan, senior director (electronics) at Flipkart spoke about the partnership with Avishkaar.
Flipkart has a nuanced understanding of customers evolving needs and is at the forefront of fulfilling their requirements with the best-in-class technical solutions, he said.
‘With digital learning taking precedence since last year, our partnership with Avishkaar will help students find their favourite online learning materials along with the right set of computing devices.’
Currently, almost 40-45% of the demand for electronics for Flipkart comes from the student community and hence it becomes even more imperative to offer curated offerings to this customer cohort, said Rakesh Krishnan speaking about partnership between Flipkart and Avishkaar.
Flipkart has especially curated a page to help students in selecting the right computing and electronic items such as laptops, tablets, printers, audio devices and IT peripherals along with online learning materials depending on one’s primary use case.
The products can be found here at ‘https://www.avishkaar.cc/shop/‘
About Avishkaar
Avishkaar is one of India’s largest robotics, coding and edtech providers for children between the age group of 5 to 15 years.
The organisation is at the cutting edge of next-gen technology education providing a comprehensive platform to teach and learn 21st-century skills like Coding, Robotics, AI, IoT, 3D printing and Drones.
The organisation is the only edtech platform that provides microdegrees for Robotics, Coding and App development.
The company supports more than 1500 schools and 200,000 children across the globe in their journey to be future-ready.
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The platform includes Award-Winning Robotics kits like E Series, Tweak, and Maker Board, Personalized Learning with Live Online courses led by expert teachers, an active and engaged online community of children who love to code, build and innovate, an international championship for coding and robotics [Avishkaar League].
In 2017, the organisation started working with Atal Tinkering Labs envisioned by NITI Aayog launching Avishkaar Innovation Track held to provide a platform to young makers to make, tinker and innovate.
The organisation has won several awards for innovation and its contribution to Tech education in India such as IMARK 2020 Design award by India Design Council in 2020, Emerge 50 Awards 2016 by Nasscom, Best STEM Product Suppliers by AICRA, Top 100 Startups to Watch 2018 by SutraHR to name a few.