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Upcoming
Programmes
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Design Thinking for
Young Minds
A hands-on creative workshop introducing students to problem-solving, ideation, and innovation through design thinking frameworks.
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IITB Makerspace
Summer Workshop
An intensive multi-day programme where students build functional prototypes using robotics, electronics, CAD, and programming.
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NextGen@IITB
Summer School
An interdisciplinary experience combining robotics, biosciences, design, and innovation, with exposure to IIT Bombay’s labs and ecosystem.
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NextGen@IITB
BMC Schools Edition
A specialised version of the NextGen programme designed for BMC school students, delivered in collaboration with BMC—focused on access, exposure, and foundational innovation learning.
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Infinity Juniors – Entrepreneurship Bootcamp
A hands-on entrepreneurship programme for students (Classes 8–12) focused on building creativity, problem-solving, and innovation skills.
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Design Thinking for
Young Minds
Introduction: A 2-Day Hands-on Creative Design Workshop for School Students (Class 8–12)
Design is all around us. Every object we use, every space we walk through, every digital app we interact with, and even the systems through which we learn, travel, or communicate. All of these are designed. At its simplest, design is the thoughtful act of improving how people live, learn, work, and experience the world. It combines creativity with problem-solving, and imagination with practicality. For students, understanding design opens up a new way of seeing everyday life: not as something fixed, but as something they can shape.
Design is a vast and exciting universe with many fields: product design, communication and graphic design, animation and game design, interaction and UX/UI design, fashion and textile design, mobility and vehicle design, architectural and spatial design, service design, and many more. Each field focuses on solving problems through observation, creativity, and empathy. What connects all of them is a simple question: How can we make experiences better for people?
Young learners constantly notice problems around them; from difficult-to-use classroom objects to confusing bus routes or uncomfortable public spaces; but they often do not know how to explore these problems creatively or collaboratively. Design Thinking, a human-centred approach to innovation, gives them this power. It helps students observe deeply, understand users, generate ideas without fear, build quick prototypes, and learn by testing solutions.
This two-day hands-on workshop brings design to life through games, team challenges, sketching, storytelling, and model-making. Students learn by doing, experimenting, and expressing. By the end, they gain creative confidence, stronger teamwork skills, and a new lens to understand the world. Most importantly, they realise that design is not just a career, it is a way of thinking that empowers them to imagine and build a better future.
Course Outline: KEY OBJECTIVES / LEARNING OUTCOMES
1. Understand What Design Is
Students will learn that design is all around us; from products they use, to apps, and discover the different fields of design in a simple, fun way.
2. Build Creativity & Imagination
Students will practice thinking differently, exploring new ideas, and expressing their imagination through quick, playful activities.
3. Solve Problems with Empathy
Students will learn how to observe people, understand their needs, and design solutions that make life easier, safer, or more enjoyable.
4. Work Together to Create & Present Solutions
Students will collaborate in teams to create simple prototypes, test their ideas, and confidently share their designs with others.
CURRICULUM
A) Through Introductions, Stories & Interactive Sessions
1. Understanding Design
• What is design? Why does everything around us have a designer?
• Differentiating design from decoration; purpose, function, and experience.
• Examples from everyday life: objects around us, apps, seats, transport, packaging etc
2. Introduction to Design Fields
Overview of major design domains:
• Product Design
• Communication & Graphic Design
• UX / UI & Interaction Design
• Animation & Game Design
• Mobility & Vehicle Design
Why all designers follow a human-centric approach.
3. Overview of Design Thinking
• Five stages: Empathise, Define, Ideate, Prototype, Test
• Why human-centred innovation matters
• How young learners can use Design Thinking in life
B) Through Fun, Hands-on Activities & Teamwork
i) Empathise: Understand People
Students learn to observe others, ask simple questions, and listen to their stories.
ii) Define: Choose the Right Problem
Teams look at everything they discovered and pick one meaningful problem to solve.
iii) Ideate: Come Up With Creative Ideas
Students learn to think freely and imagine lots of possibilities; serious, silly, futuristic, anything!
iv) Prototype: Build Your Idea
Students make simple models of their ideas using paper, cardboard, clay, sticks, or any craft material.
v) Test: See What Works
Students show their prototypes to others and get friendly feedback.
vi) Final Showcase: Teams proudly present their best ideas and models to the class.
WHO MAY BENEFIT: • Students from Class 8 to 12 who are curious, creative, or simply enjoy exploring new ideas.
• Students who like solving problems, big or small, in school, at home, or in their community.
• Students who enjoy drawing, making, building, or storytelling, and want to use these skills in meaningful ways.
• Students who want to learn teamwork, communicate better, and share ideas confidently.
• Students interested in design careers such as product design, animation, graphic design, fashion, UX/UI, architecture, mobility design, and more.
• Students who love science, technology, mathematics, or humanities but want to combine these with creativity and innovation.
• Students who enjoy making things with their hands; craft, models, DIY projects, mini inventions.
• Any student who wants to grow as an innovator, thinker, and problem-solver, regardless of their academic background.
HANDS ON FACILITY: Design Thinking Studio
RBTIC IIT Bombay
OTHER INFORMATION: Please use the Google Form temporarily, until the dedicated form is developed.
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Coordinator: Prof. Nishant Sharma
Course Duration: 2 Days
Dates: 02/05/2026 - 03/05/2026
Venue: Design Thinking Studio
Fees: (inclusive of 18% GST)
Others: INR 5900
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IITB Makerspace
Summer Workshop
Introduction: The MakerSpace Summer Workshop 2026 is an immersive, hands-on learning experience focused on robotics, automation, and smart systems. Participants will explore mechanical fabrication, electronics and programming to develop a fully functional autonomous robot.
Students will gain expertise in:
● Mechanical Prototyping – using 3D printers, laser cutters, lathe machines, grinding tools, vacuum forming and hand power tools.
● IoT & Automation – ESP32 programming, sensor integration, motor control and real-time IoT automation.
● Autonomous Navigation – Implementing obstacle detection, smart parking and payload handling.
Under the mentorship of IIT Bombay faculty and robotics experts, students will develop problem-solving skills and apply their knowledge in competitive robotics challenges and technical showdowns.
Course Outline: Day 1-3: Introduction & Mechanical Prototyping
● Workshop Overview
● CAD Modeling
● Additive Manufacturing
Day 4-6: Electronics & IoT Integration
● Electromechanical Interfacing
● Microcontroller Coding (ESP32 + WiFi-controlled)
● Autonomous App Design
Day 7-9: Smart Systems & Final Showcase
● Feature Integrations (Smart Parking, Payload Handling, Obstacle Detection)
● Project Exhibition
WHO MAY BENEFIT: School students from 8th to 12th standards
HANDS ON FACILITY: Makerspace lab will provide access to all the prototyping, electrical design and fabrication equipment and software.
OTHER INFORMATION: Early bird fee: ₹30,000 + 18% GST.
Early bird registration deadline: 11th May, 2026.
Early bird fee payment deadline: 13th May, 2026.
Late fee: ₹37,500 + 18% GST.
Late registration deadline: 25th May, 2026.
Late fee payment deadline: 27th May, 2026.
Fees will be non-refundable after the registration deadline closes (to be mentioned on promotional materials).
A second workshop of 9 days can be planned from 12th-20th Jun, 2026 if there are a large number of registrations.
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Coordinator: Prof. Darshan Shah
Course Duration: 9 Days
Dates: 02/06/2026 - 10/06/2026
Venue: Makerspace Lab,1st Floor,DESE Building
Fees: (inclusive of 18% GST)
Others:INR 44250
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NextGen@IITB Summer School
Introduction: NextGen@IIT Bombay is a five-day interdisciplinary, day-scholar summer programme designed for students from Grades 8 to 12. Offered by the Educational Outreach division at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, the programme provides early exposure to key domains such as Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Bioengineering, Design Thinking, and Innovation.
Through a structured combination of concept sessions and hands-on learning, students engage with real-world applications under the guidance of faculty members, researchers, and innovation labs across IIT Bombay.
Course Outline: • Programme orientation and introduction to the IIT Bombay ecosystem
• Artificial Intelligence & Future Technologies sessions
• Robotics & Intelligent Systems (SysCon) exposure
• Makerspace: prototyping, design, and innovation sessions
• Biosciences & Bioengineering: theory and lab exposure
• Design Thinking workshop and problem-solving approaches
• Student reflection, showcase, and valedictory session
WHO MAY BENEFIT: • Students currently enrolled in Grades 8 to 12
• Those with an interest in science, engineering, innovation, or design
• Learners who prefer experiential and hands-on learning environments
• Students seeking early exposure to IIT-level academic and research ecosystems
HANDS ON FACILITY: • Access to Makerspace IIT Bombay for prototyping and innovation activities
• Exposure to Robotics and Systems labs
• Interaction with bioscience laboratories and experimental setups
• Engagement with design and innovation spaces at IDC School of Design
• Guided exposure to IIT Bombay’s academic and innovation ecosystem
• IIT-B EO certificate of Participation.
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Coordinator: Prof. Usha Ananthakumar
Course Duration: 5 Days
Dates: 22/06/2026 - 26/06/2026
Venue: IIT, BOMBAY [VMCC]
Fees: (inclusive of 18% GST)
Others: INR 82600
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NextGen@IITB BMC Schools Edition
Introduction: NextGen@IIT Bombay is a five-day interdisciplinary, day-scholar summer programme designed for students from Grades 8 to 12. Offered by the Educational Outreach division at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, the programme provides early exposure to key domains such as Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Bioengineering, Design Thinking, and Innovation.
Through a structured combination of concept sessions and hands-on learning, students engage with real-world applications under the guidance of faculty members, researchers, and innovation labs across IIT Bombay.
Course Outline: • Programme orientation and introduction to the IIT Bombay ecosystem
• Artificial Intelligence & Future Technologies sessions
• Robotics & Intelligent Systems (SysCon) exposure
• Makerspace: prototyping, design, and innovation sessions
• Biosciences & Bioengineering: theory and lab exposure
• Design Thinking workshop and problem-solving approaches
• Student reflection, showcase, and valedictory session
WHO MAY BENEFIT: • Students currently enrolled in Grades 8 to 12
• Those with an interest in science, engineering, innovation, or design
• Learners who prefer experiential and hands-on learning environments
• Students seeking early exposure to IIT-level academic and research ecosystems
HANDS ON FACILITY: • Access to Makerspace IIT Bombay for prototyping and innovation activities
• Exposure to Robotics and Systems labs
• Interaction with bioscience laboratories and experimental setups
• Engagement with design and innovation spaces at IDC School of Design
• Guided exposure to IIT Bombay’s academic and innovation ecosystem
• IIB EO certificate of Participation.
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Coordinator: Prof. Usha Ananthakumar
Course Duration: 5 Days
Dates: 29/06/2026 - 03/07/2026
Venue: IIT, BOMBAY [VMCC]
Fees: (inclusive of 18% GST)
Others: INR 1180
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Infinity Juniors – Entrepreneurship Bootcamp
Introduction: India’s most successful entrepreneurship scholarship export, Prof Saras Sarasvathy, has compellingly argued that entrepreneurship is not a career path reserved for a bold few, but a fundamental life skill to be developed and leveraged by all (Sarasvathy & Venkataraman, 2011). Her decades of research, including her groundbreaking work on effectuation, has shown that expert entrepreneurs do not predict the future and plan to conquer it. Instead, they work with what they have, embrace uncertainty, and build as they go. Working with effectual logic is not a personality type but a way of working which is becoming increasingly valuable in the dynamically uncertain world which awaits our children. Given that individual dispositions and thinking processes are formulated during school days in large parts (Bourdieu, 1984; Pratap & Saha, 2018), waiting until university, or until someone has "enough experience," would amount to not seeding an essential skill of our times, during the fundamental years of an individual’s development. That entrepreneurial thinking, practice and perspective should be cultivated early and deliberately is the philosophical backbone of this course curated for school-children by IIT Bombay.
Course Outline: The course will progress by building up skillsets and imparting perspectives in sequence
A) Skillsets
1) Observation – the course begins with lesson around how to see the world around them. In the era of smartphones, blinded by our own comfort and privilege, most of us move through our daily lives on autopilot, blind to the friction, inefficiency, and unmet needs hiding in plain sight. This module will teach students to slow down, record their observations by paying attention, and ask why does this work this way? or who is being left out here? Fundamentally, it drives the point that everyday life is a laboratory, and immersion in the immediate context is all one needs to begin.
2) Problem Identification – students will learn how to frame and articulate problems of their interest, while identifying key stakeholders and staying within the realm of their own interest. Relative severity of candidate problems will be estimated and measures of situation at hand will be made.
3) Solution Building - This module teaches students that solutions can be a new process, a community initiative, a simple product, or even a behavioural nudge. Students will learn to brainstorm widely without judgment, evaluate ideas against real-world constraints like cost, feasibility, and impact, and then converge on the most promising direction. They will be encouraged to draw from their own lived experiences and the insights gathered during observation and problem identification, ensuring that their solutions are rooted in genuine understanding rather than assumption. Basic principles of design thinking will be taught.
4) Prototyping - students will be introduced to the art and discipline of building quick, rough, low-cost representations of their ideas — a sketch, a cardboard model, a roleplay, a mock app screen, or even a short demonstration. Students will learn that the purpose of a prototype is to invite feedback, and iterate before investing significant time or resources. They will go through at least one cycle of build, test, and improve, developing a comfort with imperfection and a bias toward action.
5) Storytelling - This final module teaches students that every innovator must also be a storyteller — someone who can make others feel the problem before presenting the solution. Students will learn to structure their narrative around three pillars: the human behind the problem, the journey of discovery, and the promise of the solution. Together, the five modules form not just a course curriculum but a complete way of being in the world — one that is curious, action-oriented, playfully creative, and empathetic.
B) Perspectives
1) History of a city, its communities and associated entrepreneurial landscape
2) Ingenuity and enterprise of local businessmen
3) Social enterprises and their impact
4) Crisis and its impact on a geography, business, individuals
5) (Film) Industry as a matrix of entrepreneurial energy
WHO MAY BENEFIT: This course is designed specifically for students of Class 8 - 12. In particular, this will benefit two kinds of students a) creative and curious students - the course will serve as an outet for their energy and questions b) those who have got drawn into the digital world - the course will help them explore a different dimension of their personality
HANDS ON FACILITY: The POC lab at DSSE will be leveraged to build prototypes
OTHER INFORMATION: The course is being helmed by Prof Sankalp Pratap of the entrepreneurship school at IIT Bombay. An entrepreneur himself, he is invested in pursuits related to child development With a PhD (Strategy) and an MBA from IIM Calcutta and a B.Tech (Marine) from MERI Kolkata, Prof. Sankalp Pratap comes with a mix of corporate and academic experience at blue chip institutions. His doctoral research involved study of early age influences and its impact on an individual’s professional life. Derived from his interest in early stage development of children, he co-founded Hamari Laado (www.hamarilaado.org) which works towards development of girlchild from impoverished families in rural India, through an innovative copyrighted pedagogy aimed at fostering creativity, articulation and resilience. Prof Sankalp has spent 10 + years collectively in academic institutions (IIT Bombay, IIT Jodhpur and IIM Trichy), teaching strategic management, entrepreneurship and ethnography. In this period, he has actively led the design and execution of doctoral programs and administered bodies like e-cell and incubation centres. Before his PhD, his decade long corporate work experience spanned functions like Marketing, Operations, Business Consulting, Human Resources and Strategy in the Tata Group, Neptune Orient Lines Singapore and Infosys Technologies, where he got the opportunity to work with individuals across national and cultural boundaries. Prof Sankalp relies on his ethnographic skills for his research and practice, as also for exercising his interest in writing short stories for children.
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Coordinator: Prof. Sankalp Pratap
IITB Faculty: Prof. Ramesh Kuruva
Course Duration: 5 Days
Dates: 01/07/2026 - 05/07/2026
Registration Last Date: 24/06/2026
Venue: DSSE building
Fees: (inclusive of 18% GST)
Others: INR 70800
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