Overview

It works with the aim of providing low cost, quality education to disadvantaged students aspiring to study at India’s top universities by developing and monitoring programs, projects, curriculum and mentorship practices that increase learning and financial outcomes.

Avanti Fellows, who are selected through an aptitude test and a personal interview round to evaluate merit and financial background, are paired with Avanti Mentors (who are graduates from IIT, NIT and other premier universities and have been trained through teaching methodology workshops), who provide English language training and materials for competitive exams from partner institutes to the selected fellows.

Avanti implements a pedagogy called Peer Instruction, that supports students and teachers with recorded videos and lecture resources which enable collaborative learning and reduce dependency on teachers by integrating ICT (Information and Communication Technology) in teaching.

Currenty this technique is spread across 3 school systems – Corporation of Chennai, Navodaya Vidyalayas, and Haryana Government Schools.

Another dimension of its work is Multi Language Content Creation, which aims at providing teaching materials and workbooks in varied languages (currently Hindi and Tamil) helping teachers run effective classrooms.

At present, Avanti has over 50 full-time employees & 100 volunteers, and supports over 2400 students in 16 locations across 3 government school systems spread over 5 states.

It has won the following awards.
Echoing Green Fellowship - 2012
Draper Richards Kaplan Fellowship
Winner of Stanford BASES Business Plan Competition - 2010
PAN IIT Nation Building Initiative - 2010