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Pi Jam Foundation

Equipping students and educators with tools to learn and create with technology

Headquarters

Maharashtra

Thematic area

Education

Region(s) of work

Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Telangana

Company Size

55

Sub-Theme(s)

Technology

Categories

Accelerator, Incubator

About the Organization

“Pi Jam Foundation is an impact-driven non-profit organisation. It envisions a world where all children have access to an excellent and relevant computer education, nurturing generations of creators and problem solvers by democratising quality and hands-on Computer Science Learning at scale. To remove access barriers to affordable and high-quality computer science education for underprivileged students with the purpose of building essential 21st-century skills like problem-solving and design thinking in the country’s youth, it leverages open-source, hardware/software, and provides access to affordable tools to deliver a highly contextualized computer science curriculum through hands-on experiential pedagogy.

Pi Jam takes a systems approach to build foundational digital, computational, and critical thinking skills in students. Its programs are designed across demonstration, role modeling, advocacy, and research and operate across the spectrum of intensive depth and scale and have impacted 1,16,000 students and 1463+ teachers till date.”

Active Founder(s)

Shoaib Dar %designation% Shoaib Dar is the Founder- CEO of an award-winning non-profit Pi Jam Foundation, He closely works with systems partners across 4 states toward this pursuit. Shoaib has a bachelor's in mechanical engineering and shuttles between Kashmir and Pune for work. He is also a former Teach for India Fellow, and a current Wipro Seeding Fellow, Better India Changemaker, Vice Chairperson of the VIT Alumni Association, Mentor of Change ATL, has been featured in the Hindustan Times list of 30 under 30 in 2017 and 2018 and has been invited as a frequent speaker at UNESCO Tech Conference, UNICEF Southeast Asia Digital Divide Conferences, and a host of other platforms.

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