In a move to equip students from marginalized communities with future-ready skills, Quest Alliance, a non-profit trust and the Karnataka Residential Educational Institutions Society (KREIS) have partnered to train 1,104 teachers in computational thinking, reaching over 44,000 students across 800 schools.

Learners from multiple backgrounds communities will gain access to digital fluency, coding skills, critical thinking and problem-solving skills. This initiative aims to strengthen STEM mindsets, equip educators with digital pedagogies, and enable learners to build pathways to future careers.

 The initiative is said to further integrate experiential strategies such as school level ideathons, and hackathons, to promote design thinking and problem-solving thereby enabling learners to think critically for solutions to problems within communities.

 “We are looking forward to deepening our partnership with the  KREIS ecosystem. There is great enthusiasm and excitement on both sides to create meaningful learning experiences for our learners, especially girls at the intersection of future technology, such as AI and future skills, critical thinking, and problem solving. We’ll be working closely with the KREIS educators to co-create an AI curriculum which is relevant and contextual for the learners,” said Neha Parti, Director, Schools Program, Quest Alliance.

 Quest has proposed to work in the overall framework of the High School Transformation Programme of KREIS. The programme aims to impact students from 8th grade to 10th grade over a two-year period.

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