In a move to equip students from marginalized communities with future-ready skills, Quest Alliance and the Karnataka Residential Educational Institutions Society (KREIS) have partnered to train 1,104 teachers in computational thinking, reaching 44,000+ students across 800 schools. Quest Alliance, a not-for-profit trust that equips young people with 21st century skills by enabling self-learning, will lead this training as part of an MoU with KREIS.
Building on the impact of an earlier collaboration with KREIS – which reached more than 15,000 students from these communities. Quest Alliance is extending the partnership with KREIS to strengthen the EcosySTEM approach. Through Quest Alliance’s proposed Master Trainer (MT) cascade, the aim is to build capacities of teachers across the state of Karnataka.
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 will 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.
Investing in our learners means investing in our future. We’re proud to take this step toward educational equity—delivering essential academic support and computational thinking resources to those who need them most.
“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.
The partnership between Quest Alliance and the KREIS school ecosystem reflects a shared commitment to equipping students with future-ready skills and knowledge essential in an increasingly technology-driven world. This collaboration marks a significant milestone in preparing the next generation with future ready skills and to make informed choices for opportunities in the future.
