Suhani Sharma , XI C , makes it to the top 25 students of the country in the ‘Sustainability Accelerator’ summer internship program being conducted by CBSE in support with Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail, for accelerating sustainability mindset in youth – learn about sustainability, build solutions and get hands-on experience through projects.
Instructor led live webinars were conducted with 7 virtual sessions spread over a period of three weeks starting 23rd May 2023 and students participated in mission-based challenges, submitted assignments, developing new skills. The tasks included choosing a sustainability challenge, answering questionnaires, listing technological and non-techie solutions, designing website, identifying stakeholders, , doing cost-benefit analysis, writing stories, making presentation, recording speeches pitching your proposal and so on. Students acquired points after every mission completion. Checkpoints after every two missions decided who moved forward and mentoring support was provided. While about 10,000 students started with this program, at the end of six missions, only 100 students moved ahead to the next phase of the program. And after submission of her prototype solution to her problem statement, Suhani Sharma’ prototype has been shortlisted among the top 25 to proceed to the next stage. And now she is all busy preparing her business model canvas and ecosystem mapping highlighting the viability and potential impact of her prototype.
