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Dell India has partnered with the UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) as well as Ignus to launch PolicyHack for teachers and school representatives.
The initiative allows the teaching fraternity to come up with solutions for problems faced by teachers inside and outside the classroom. It will also help create a platform for teachers and school representatives to interact with each other, according to a press statement.
In the first PolicyHack here, over 80 schools Pan-India shared their statements of purpose. Based on the evaluation parameters, top 20 shortlisted schools presented their ideas to the Jury, which comprised of Sanjay Awasthi, Member Secretary National Council for Teacher Education, Rajive Gulati, Head, Start-Up Incubator, HARTRON, Prof. Dr. Anantha Duraiappah, Director, UNESCO MGIEP, Subir Shukla, Founder, Ignus, Ajay Kaul, Director and GM, Head Government Business, Dell EMC and Ritu Gupta, Director, Consumer India, Dell.
The maiden hackathon for teachers was won by the Government Boys Senior Secondary School No 1 Ghonda, Delhi who presented the most promising and innovative ideas and solutions. The teams who were runners up were Indraprastha International School, GyanDevi Salwan Public School and DrSampuranand SKV-1.
Dell plans to present three more PolicyHacks in other regions of the country in 2019. The winning teams will work alongside Dell and relevant stakeholders to develop policy solutions post the hackathon.
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