The Pi Jam

27/07/2026

Building pathways for student innovation begins with bringing the right people together.

At Raah: Strengthening Pathways for Student Innovators in Schools, 18 student innovators from 10 schools across Kashmir presented projects addressing the challenges around them to, government departments, incubation centres, universities, and ecosystem partners.

What followed was more than a showcase.

Students received feedback on their innovations, explored opportunities around mentorship, incubation, entrepreneurship, funding, and deployment.

The event brought together stakeholders from the Islamic University of Science and Technology (IUST), Directorate of School Education Kashmir, Samagra Shiksha, University of Kashmir, Indian Institute of Management, National Institute of Technology Srinagar (NIT Srinagar), incubation leaders, and other ecosystem partners.

These interactions also introduced students to existing support pathways, including YUKTI, the Ministry of Education's National Innovation Repository, Mission YUVA, and other opportunities that can help take their innovations further.

Strengthening pathways for young innovators requires collaboration across schools, universities, government, industry, and the wider innovation ecosystem.

Raah was one step towards building those connections and supporting promising student innovations beyond the classroom.

We are grateful to everyone who contributed to making Raah a meaningful step towards strengthening the innovation ecosystem in Jammu & Kashmir.

17/07/2026

17/07/2026

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06/07/2026

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22/06/2026

One last look at summer.

Different places. Different experiences. The same curiosity to create, explore, and learn by doing.

Here are a few more moments from across the Pi Jam Network before summer comes to a close.

19/06/2026

Beyond activities

Over the past few weeks, children spent their summer building, exploring, and bringing ideas to life.

Some designed games and worked on solutions, prototypes, and models. Others shared ideas they never thought they would present just a few weeks earlier.

Not everything worked the first time.
Ideas broke, were rebuilt, and improved. Questions led to more questions.

And that was the point.

The most exciting part of this summer wasn't what the children completed. It was what happened along the way.

Behind every game, model, presentation, and prototype is a child who discovered they are capable of more than they thought.

And that may be the most important thing they created this summer.

12/06/2026

One summer. Many communities.

This summer, thousands of children across Maharashtra, Telangana, Karnataka, and Uttar Pradesh came together around a shared idea: learning by doing.

Different languages. Different contexts. Different challenges.

Across districts, even as temperatures crossed 45°C in several regions, children continued to show up each day with steady energy and commitment.

On some days, they even took the lead beyond the camp itself, going door to door, speaking with other children about their experiences, and inviting them to join in.

Across every location, what stood out most was a shared spirit. The joy of creating, collaborating, and solving problems together.

10/06/2026

A lab is not a room.

Across the Pi Jam network, over the past few weeks of summer, learning didn’t stay inside four walls, and it didn’t need expensive infrastructure.

We saw labs emerging everywhere in parks, community halls, classrooms, homes, and even roadside spaces wherever children could sit together and simply try things out.

In one of the sessions, we saw how deeply this mattered to the community.

An Aaji went out of her way to bring children in an auto so they could attend the session. Even though she reached late, she stayed, listened, and became part of the conversation.

Children who were shy in the beginning slowly opened up. They began saying, “I know this,” with growing confidence.

They were not only learning individually, but also helping each other, collaborating, and figuring things out together.

On days when the internet stopped working or errors appeared, they didn’t step back. They searched, tried, and kept going.

For many parents, seeing their children use computers with such confidence brought real joy. Some even said they wished their children could experience this kind of learning regularly.

And sometimes, the most meaningful learning moments are not measured in numbers…
but in the pride of a parent’s smile,
the effort of an Aaji,
and the curiosity of a child who refuses to stop trying.

Because in the end, a lab is not a place.
It is wherever curiosity gets room to grow.

09/06/2026

Summer didn't stop learning.

While temperatures soared and schools closed for the summer break in India, curiosity remained as active as ever.

Across the Pi Jam Foundation network, thousands of children spent their summer building things, testing ideas, asking questions and solving problems together.

From schools and community spaces to neighbourhood learning centres, even gullies and parks, young learners across multiple states, from Maharashtra and Telangana to Uttar Pradesh, continued to create, experiment and learn by doing through both online and offline experiences.

What stood out wasn't just their participation or the projects they built.

It was the excitement of discovering something new. The confidence to share ideas. Ask questions and the willingness to try, fail and try again.

Different places. Different challenges.

Yet the same excitement to create, collaborate and solve problems.

Because curiosity doesn't take a summer break.

02/06/2026

“I feel confident to try it in my school,” said Aadaf, a middle school student referring to the unconference he experienced for the first time and hopes to replicate in his own school.

What makes this line meaningful is not just the confidence behind it, but what produced it.

At the unconference, students were not sitting at the margins of the conversation. They participated alongside educators, researchers, and practitioners, questioning, discussing, and contributing in the same space.

And sometimes, the most important outcome of a learning space is not what happens inside the room, but what people feel ready to carry forward after it.