Student Startups and Innovation Centre

Government Engineering College - VALSAD ONLINE SUMMER BOOTCAMP FOR

School Children of Valsad District

02nd – 8th June, 2020 Partnering Organization

District Education Office-Valsad

Government Engineering College, Valsad

About the Bootcamp

Under the aegis of SSIP, GEC, Valsad & DEO, Valsad decided to outreach school students of Valsad District and to make them aware about an opportunity available under SSIP policy. It is the first of its kind of an event organized with 5 modules to be delivered online from GEC, Valsad

Planning of Bootcamp

GEC Valsad is pursuing with the best possible efforts to outreach the school students.

In the recent past, the boot camp was arranged at GECV Campus on 6th March, 2020

& there was an immense response were received from school students & teachers

when explained about SSIP. In order to take this inspiration further, 14 Hours Boot

Camp digital course was design by the SSIP cell of the institute for the schools of the

Valsad district. All major schools of Valsad city & district were invited by individual

letter send jointly by GEC Valsad & DEO Valsad for the maximum participation. Seven

days Boot Camp schedule was made available prior to beginning of the course and

registration started online on institute portal. Registered participants were informed

through SMS gateway prior to the session and separate instruction was also passed

from DEO office to take maximum benefit of the course.

Objectives of the Boot camp: Objectives are

• To make students aware about the support available under SSIP

• To inspire students for creative and innovation thinking

• Showcasing best practicing for students’ start-ups

• To connect students with innovation incubation centre of GEC, Valsad

• To make students engaged with creative thinking in this pandemic period

Poster of Bootcamp 2020

In order to develop culture of innovation at a

grass root level and make students familiar

with various terms related to student start-up

and innovation, SSIP cell Government

Engineering College Valsad planned 07 online

session series covering various aspects write

from the beginning idea to market and

concepts of Entrepreneurship and design

engineering for school students of standard 6th to 12th.Being SSIP Coordinator I am thankful

to all my team members of SSIP and respected principal sir from planning to brilliant execution

of sessions. Being SSIP coordinator I take the leadership and deliver first session on 02.06.20

on “Development of Creativity and Innovation culture for School students and teachers”.

Innovation in education encourages teachers and students to explore research and use all the

tools to uncover something new. It involves a different way of looking at problems and solving

them. The thinking process that goes into it will help students develop their creativity and

their problem-solving skills. Innovation improves education because it compels students to

use a higher level of thinking to solve problems. In my first session the difference between

invention, innovation and creativity was well explained with examples.

Inaugural of Online Bootcamp

For the formal inaugural function of the

Bootcamp, DEO Valsad and some school

principals were invited.

Keynote address by Dr. V. S. Purani

Our Principal, Dr. V. S. Purani explained the

objectives of the SSIP as well as Bootcamp. He

also inspired them by sharing with them the

information about the SSIP fund received by

the institute and the process involved in the

selection process of POCs of the applicants. Dr. V. S. Purani, Principal, GEC, Valsad

Online Session: 1 on 02nd June 2020 Development of Creativity and Innovation Culture in school students and teachers by

Dr. K. L. Mokariya

Being SSIP coordinator I take the leadership and

deliver my second session on 03.06.20 on

“Introduction to state SSIP policy and schemes

for IPR and startups”. The session begin with

introduction to state SSIP(Student start up

innovation policy).To inculcate culture of

innovation amongst the students and to

provide a conducive environment for optimum

harnessing of their creative pursuit, The Education Department, Government of Gujarat has

issued Student Startup and Innovation Policy (SSIP) in year 2017.Problem of unemployment

can also be addressed by developing culture of innovation and entrepreneurship at

grassroots and create opportunity from them. In this session the role of state government,

Education department Government of Gujarat and SSIP iHub Gujarat was explained for efforts

made in IPR, SOIC, Smart Gujarat Hackathon, SSIP Prashansha, Start-up etc. All the basic terms

of preincubation, incubation, Incubator, Atal innovation mission brief, startup India yatra,

Accelerators, Angle Investors, capitalist, seed fund, Proof of concept, Minimum viable

product, prototype stage, start-up etc. were explained.

In order to achieve the objectives of the goals

of the boot camp, out of seven sessions, 3rd

session was specially allocated to explore the

facilities and activities of the event hosting

institute as incubation center. The 3rd session

was entitled “Facilities an activity at

incubation center GEC, Valsad”. The key

aspect of the 3rd session was to brief the

participants about the presently carried out activities at GEC, Valsad to promote the start-ups

and innovations through sensitization. The facilities developed using the grant of the SSIP fund

were also showcased through the session. Participants were briefed regarding the

opportunity for the utilization of the existing developed incubation laboratories at the

institute.

Online Session: 2 on 03rd June 2020 Introduction to state SSIP policy and schemes for IPR and startups by

Dr. K. L. Mokariya

Online Session: 3 on 04th June 2020 Facilities and Activities of Incubation center G.E.C Valsad by

Prof. R. C. Malan

In order to develop a grassroots level culture

and promote student’s startup and innovation

policy (SSIP) among the school children and

teachers we have arranged two specific

sessions for them first was on “Innovation and

Students Startup-Possibilities and

Opportunities for School Students”. During this

session we gave the understanding from the

basic terminology like: Innovation, startup, difference between invention and innovation with

examples. We tried to cover fundamentals of startups with examples. To enhance better

motivation among the students and teachers we discussed different areas of day to day life

where the potential startup possibilities are observed. We gave various examples on different

topics where school students and children can give their better contribution viz: Sustainable

Agricultural Practices, Cleanliness and Health, Resource Management, Industrial

Development, Future Transport and Communication and Educational Games and

Mathematical modeling.

The awareness regarding any programme and

policy launched by Government significantly

affects its degree of success. It is the time now to

look beyond the conventional definition of right

to education. The era has come where education

is not limited to only the predefined curriculum.

Government has also taken measure to make

the education system dynamic by launching

various programmes and policies. The 5th session of the bootcamp was totally oriented about

such programmes and policies. In this session the Atal innovation mission and its initiatives

were covered. As the participants are mainly being from schooling education, the Atal

Tinkering Lab was the focus of the session. The eligibility criteria, procedure of application

and scrutiny etc. were explained in details. The second half of the session was regarding the

Inspire Award: Manak.

Online Session: 4 on 05th June 2020 Innovation and student startup possibilities and opportunities for school children by

Dr. B.R.Sudani

Online Session: 5 on 06th June 2020 Atal Innovation Yojna and various important schemes for school students by

Prof. R. C. Malan

Bootcamp is organized to enhance the flavor of

innovation into school students under the

banner of SSIP. Bootcamp had covered large

aspect of importance of SSIP policy to

implementation. Out of 7th session, the 6th

session which was “Demonstrating various

Design canvas including Business Model Canvas

(BMC)”.

Our country has lots of big challenges, so any small innovative idea can help to established

correlation with country challenges. Any idea without draft was not acceptable in the field of

innovation. The session was fully focused on how to build ideas and explore the idea with

respect to environment, techno economically feasibility and development of product. The

design thinking process was covered in two phases, first one finds the problems and second

was find the solutions. Further, the session was followed for the development and

preparation techniques various canvas like empathy canvas, mind mapping canvas, AEIOU

canvas and prototype canvas to establish innovative idea to development of prototype.

Further it extended to understand business development though BMC canvas.

The second session was on the topic

“Entrepreneurship development culture and

knowledge impartment at the school level”. I

this session as per our aim of the book camp we

wanted to make the students and teachers

aware about the need of entrepreneurship for

our nation and possible ways of

entrepreneurship culture development at

school level. So, with examples of well-known Entrepreneurs of our nation we tried to

motivate the participants and conveyed them the objectives of the boot camp 2020. We put

our subject with basics of entrepreneurship development like what is entrepreneurship and

explained them the difference between enterprise education and entrepreneurship

education.

Online Session: 6 on 07th June 2020 Demonstrating various design canvas including Business Model Canvas (BMC) by

Prof. R. V. Prajapati

Online Session: 7 on 08th June 2020 Entrepreneurship development culture and knowledge impartment at the school level

by Dr. B. R. Sudani

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Government Engineering College, Valsad Near Sanskar Kendra, Valsad -396001, Gujarat, India

Web: http://www.gecv.ac.in