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1. A PRESENTATION ON EUREKA SCHOOLS
by
Eureka Child
An AID INDIA initiative

2. AID
INDIA:
OVERVIEW
• Founded:
In
1996.
By
IIT
and
BITS
alumni
who
quit
corporate
careers
to
work
full?me
on
educa?on
and
village
development.
•
Mission:
To
provide
quality
educa?on
to
every
poor
child
in
India
•
Strategy:
Large
Scale
Measurable
Impact
Projects
• USP:
• Content
Exper@se:
Separate
content
R&D
division.
Deeply
researched
outcome-­‐focused
pedagogy,
materials
and
training.
Widely
used
by
Govt,
UNICEF,
Pvt
Schools,
TV
channels,
NGOs.
• Impact
Evalua@on:
Systema?c
evalua?on
and
tracking
of
children’s
learning
outcomes
used
as
feedback
to
con?nuously
improve
performance.
• Community
Engagement:
In
every
village
we
get
the
community
to
financially
contribute
to
the
project
right
from
the
start.
This
ensures
both
accountability
as
well
as
sustainability.
• Long
Term
Approach:
Most
of
our
projects
start
small,
demonstrate
results
and
build
further
and
further
in
the
succeeding
years.
This
leads
to
long
term
and
broader
impact
on
the
children.
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3. AID
INDIA:
PROJECTS
Chennai
Schools
Padippum
Inikkum
NCLP
Project
Math,
Science
,
Language
4.5
Lakh
children
in
7300
Science
and
Math
made
improved
in
100
corpora?on
schools
learn
to
read
Tamil
fun
in
700
child
labor
Lab-­‐in-­‐a-­‐Box
schools
in
Chennai
Partner:
TN
Govt
SSA
Scien?fic
crea?vity
sparked
in
schools
Read
India
Partner:
MS
Dell
Founda?on
Partner:
UNICEF,
Govt
1.3
Lakh
kids
in
510
Govt
Reading
campaign
in
Cognizant
Founda?on
13000
villages
helps
schools
in
Krishnagiri.
Partner:
UNICEF
children
learn
to
read.
Partner:
Pratham
Eureka
Schools
Eureka
SuperKidz
Model
schools
hat
Village
educa?on
centers
that
Scholarship
TN
Schools
Project
demonstrate
top
quality
provides
quality
educa?on
to
361
poorest
children
1
million
children
in
7200
Govt
educa?on
at
low
cost.
the
poorest
children
supported
from
Std
6
schools
improve
reading,
math
Partner:
Banca
Sella
Partner:
John
Stone,
Prabhu,
through
?ll
college.
and
pre-­‐primary
skills.
Kothari,
Rohan
ILP,
AGK,
PwC,
Girija
Partner:
CSS
Partner:
CIFF,
John
Stone,
Asha,
Yahoo
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4. AID
INDIA:
TEAM,
ADVISORS
q AID
INDIA
has
100
Full-­‐?me
Staff,
250
Expert
Teachers
and
1200
Village
Teachers
in
53
blocks
in
10
districts
of
Tamilnadu
and
is
growing….
Full@me
Management
Team
Balaji
Sampath:
B.Tech,
IIT
Madras.
PhD,
Univ
of
Maryland.
15
years
of
development
and
educa?on
experience.
Science
Educator.
Ashoka
Fellow.
Advisors
Chandra
Anil:
B.Tech,
BITS
Pilani.
Primary
and
Pre-­‐primary
Educa?on
Expert.
N. Vaghul, Former Chairman, ICICI
Consultant
to
the
Govt
on
Reading
program.
Vasanthi Devi, Former Vice Chancellor
Ravishankar:
B.Tech,
IIT-­‐M.
PhD,
Carnegie
Mellon
Univ.
Adj
Prof,
IIT.
Designed
and TN Planning Commission Member
several
science
and
math
programs.
Author
of
several
books
including
TN
Std
6
Math
Madhav Chavan, CEO, Pratham
Textbook.
Ramanujam,
Damodharan:
M.Phil,
Madras
Univ.
Born
into
a
very
poor
family
in
a
remote
Chairman, NCERT Math Committee
village,
Damu
started
life
as
a
migrant
child
labor.
Sheer
will-­‐power
helped
him
N. Chandramouli, Director, Kothari
overcome
huge
hurdles,
complete
schooling,
college
and
M.Phil.
An
expert
on
early
and
primary
educa?on,
he
has
authored
several
books
for
children
and
developed
kits
that
Anil Arjun, CEO, Reliance MediaWorks
have
been
adopted
widely
by
the
Govt.
Giada Bono, CEO, Sella Synergy
Shyam:
MBA,
IIM
Ahmedabad.
Aeer
gradua?ng
at
the
top
of
his
MBA
class
at
IIMA,
V. Sundar, President & Group CFO,
Shyam
worked
in
Barclays
Capital
at
Singapore
as
an
Investment
Banker.
He
quit
his
Dynamatics Technologies
corporate
career
to
work
full?me
with
AID
INDIA
to
educate
poor
children
in
villages.
Shyam
uses
his
management
exper?se
to
ensure
high
quality
field
opera?ons.
Thomas Kailath
Professor Emeritus, Stanford University
The
Management
Team
also
has
a
mix
of
people
who
quit
corporate
careers
to
serve
the
Ramesh Mangaleswaran
poor
(Jayram,
Gomathi,
Smitha,
Radha,
Gayatri),
professional
social
workers
with
many
Director, McKinsey Chennai
years
of
field
experience
(Rajkumar,
Prabha,
Gowri,
Parvathy)
and
community
leaders
Vijay Manghnani
who
have
built
extremely
commiied
field
teams
(Samu,
Rajapandi,
Anbazhagi,
Vice President, ACE USA
Murugesh,
Nagaraj).
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5. AID
INDIA:
AWARDS,
RECOGNITION
¤ MIT
Indus
Technovators
Award,
for
innova?ve
work
on
Science
Educa?on
and
Village
Libraries.
¤ Ashoka
Fellowship,
for
innova?ve
work
in
science
educa?on
¤ Lemelson
Inventor
Cer@ficate,
recognizing
innova?ve
work
in
science
educa?on
¤ Pratham
USA
Achievement
Award,
for
improving
reading
skills
across
the
state
of
Tamilnadu.
¤ Dis@nguished
Service
Award,
from
Rotary
Club
of
Madras
South
for
providing
quality
educa?on
to
the
poorest
children.
¤ Selected
Media
Coverage
• Center
page
ar?cle
in
The
Hindu
Metroplus
on
9th
May
2009
• Science
Program
featured
in
Lemelson
Founda?on’s
online
magazine
‘Good’
• Outlook
ar?cle
on
Educa?on
programs
of
AID
INDIA
on
18th
Sept
2006
• CNN
IBN
TV
interview
on
Reading
program
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6. EUREKA SCHOOLS
An AID INDIA and Friends of Banca Sella initiative
Where every child is without fear and head held high;
Where knowledge is free and learning is fun;
Where tireless striving is born of curiosity;
Where teachers and children trust each other;
Where children learn to question before learning to answer;
Where understanding is not buried under the desert sand of
exams;
Where the mind is led forward into ever widening thought and
action;
Into that haven of freedom, may all our children awake.
• Started
in
June
2006
as
a
part
of
Tsunami
relief
&
rehabilita?on
efforts
in
Koovathur,
Kanchipuram
District,
TN
• Inspira?on
and
support
from
Banca
Sella,
Italy
• Vision
of
providing
quality
educa?on
to
every
child
• Currently,
2
schools
–
Koovathur
(Kanchipuram
District)
&
Vembakkam
(Tiruvannamalai
District)

7. Learning is fun
Children
learn
using
attractive
educational
materials
&
hands-­‐on
activities

8. Child-friendly infrastructure
Buildings
and
classrooms
designed
to
be
educational
and
child-­‐friendly

9. Motivated teachers
Eureka
School
is
my
second
home…My
teacher
is
my
friend…

10. Focus on outcomes
Written
tests
&
One-­‐on-­‐one
evaluation
to
assess
skill
levels

11. Meaningful methodology
Involving
kids
in
learning
through
projects
&
field
trips

12. Extra-curricular activities
Children
involved
in
karate,
silambam,
football
&
yoga

13. Current reach
• Academic year 2012-’13
Strength
from
LKG
to
Std.
5
Eureka
School,
Koovathur
–
138
students
Eureka
School,
Vembakkam
–
134
students
Average
teacher
:
student
ra?o
=
1:20

14. Join us in our endeavour to provide
quality education to rural children
• Sponsor
a
child
–
Many
of
our
students
are
first
generation
learners.
Enable
a
child
to
access
quality
primary
education
• Sponsor
educa@onal
materials
–
Enable
our
children
to
access
quality
learning
materials
• Support
infrastructure
requirements
-­‐
Partake
in
making
Eureka
Schools
creative
&
exciting
for
children
• Sponsor
a
teacher
–
Support
the
cost
of
one
of
our
motivated
teachers

15. THANK YOU
AID
INDIA
45,
Pycroes
Road,
1st
Street,
Royapeiah,
Chennai
–
600014
parvathy.n@aidindia.in
+91
98409
24634
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