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 the 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.

Currently, 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

Projects

It provides two years of after school program to the selected students from low-income groups to prepare for Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas to help them prepare for its entrance exam from grades XI and XII in various government schools across different districts. The students are selected from the low-income group on the basis of their school performance. Avanti also conducts an aptitude test and personal interview. The selected Fellow is paired with a senior fellow called a Mentor.

Under Jacobpura Program, Avanti helps students to prepare for the IIT-JEE entrance exam along with their board exams by giving them one-to-one mentoring and provide right direction to their preparation efforts. The program is currently being run in Gurgaon, Haryana.

It focuses on strengthening the existing gaps in the school, education system, upskilling the teachers, administration. Students's needs are matched with the existing skills of the teachers. Teacher training programs are conducted with specific focus on Maths & Science. Currently, this program is being conducted in Haryana and Chennai.

Products

The lessons and workbooks are digitally available in different languages for the teachers. They also provide comprehensive library for Maths & Science. The aim is to bridge education disparity and make the opportunity of learning and access to knowledge convenient & effective.

Services