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2010: IBM Study of 1500 Global CEOs

Global CEOs said that creativity is most crucial for future success at workplace

2016: Adobe State of Create Global Study

respondents cross 5 countries said education systems are stifling creativity

2012: Adobe State of Create Global Study

60% 65%respondents said creativity is key to driving economic growth80%

2015: Future of Jobs Study by WEF

students entering primary school will have jobs that don’t exist today

2015: Future of Jobs Study by WEF

Creativity will be one of top 3 skills workers will need to succeed by 2020

2015: Future of Jobs Study by WEF

65% 3rd 35%skills that are considered important will have changed by 2020

With more than 25.3 crore school going children, India has an unique opportunity to grow rapidly based on the demographic advantage over the nextdecade. Multiple global reports and studies by renowned organizations such as World Economic Forum, IBM and Adobe have stated that Creativity isgoing to be one of the key factors for students to succeed in the next 5 – 10 years as they enter the workforce. These studies and reports clearlyshow that there is an immediate need to evaluate creative thinking capability of school students and help them hone it to its fullest potential. Thisalso got us, Team Kidovators, thinking and focused on finding more about the state of Creativity & Creative Thinking in the Indian Education System.We surveyed 1000 individuals across 10 cities & towns of India comprising of top corporates, school educators, students and their parents in oureffort to find out about what each stakeholder’s thoughts are on creativity.

corporates surveyed said that Creative Thinking will be an important skill they will

seek in their recruitment process

parents said that present day education system is not fostering creative thinking

among students

parents believe that they have not much of a role to play in fostering creativity, and that

the school are responsible

educators feel that the current education system is not geared towards fostering

creativity

100% 59%Almost

50%

Over

50%

educators cite that lack of resources, tools & programs as the main bottleneck to

imparting creativity in schools

students are at their creative best in the classroom

34%

While every Corporate agreed that creativity will be important for graduates in their recruitment process, 3 out of 5 parents believe that educationsystem is not fostering creativity among students. A majority of educators too believe the same and cited the lack of resources, tools and programsas the biggest bottleneck for helping students hone creativity. All the research helped us understand that honing student creativity is critical inbuilding a robust future human resource and a program building creative thinking capabilities must be built around school students.

These were our key findings from the Sylvant Advisors – GyanLab report on Creativity & Indian Education System:

Only

10%

What is CREATIVITY & CREATIVE THINKING QUOTIENT?One does not have to be a genius to be creative, and being trained for creativity is possible too. Kidovators aims to assess the Creative ThinkingQuotient (CTQ), which is an index of the creative potential for participating students. CTQ is arrived at by calculating a series of scores obtained bystudents on various assessments, tasks and activities designed to measure creativity. This whole product is built on the foundation of well researchedtheories and concepts in creative thinking.

The earliest theory on creativity was conceptualized by J P Guilford, who said creativity isn't one single concept but it is a category. Torrance built onthis concept and the first creativity tests were administered in 1958.

These theories hypothesize that creativity has four primary components to it:

FLUENCY

The total number of interpretable, meaningful, and

relevant ideas generated in response to the stimulus.

ORIGINALITY FLEXIBILITY ELABORATION

The statistical rarity of the responses.

The number of different categories of relevant

responses.

The amount of detail in the responses.

All of these can be measured by tasks designed to elicit responses to these four components of creativity. Some such tasks are Unusual Uses (to listthe unusual uses of an inanimate object), Impossible Task (to list the number of impossible tasks), Consequences Task (to be able to narrate theconsequences of a situation), Just Suppose Task (to predict the possible outcomes when a variable is introduced), Situations Task (to predict possiblesolutions for dystopian situations), Common Problems Task, Improvement Task, Imaginative Stories Task (to narrate a very exciting & interestingstory), Cow Jumping Problem (to illustrate the consequences of a cow jumping over the moon).

Kidovators through its product and process aims to enhance creativity in children. The need to be creative and unique is especially important intoday’s world with more than eight billion people, all of them striving to be their own individuals.

Kidovators 2017 is ‘India’s Biggest Creative Thinking Olympiad’ with the ambition of building an ecosystem that enables over a million students toperform at their creative best over the next decade in order to make them a successful human resource that fuels India’s national growth.The primary reason of building an ecosystem is that Creative Thinking is not an one-off topic and cannot be honed in students through only a fewinteractions and touch points. We are proud to present Kidovators 2017 is as a holistic platform that will work with students throughout theacademic year through offline Creativity Olympiad and online platform ensuring a balanced growth in hand with their academic progress.

The Kidovators Platform

Opportunity for 600 -900 students to participate in Regional Finals and 150 in Grand Finale in Bangalore

Year-round access to Kidovators.com platform for honing creativity skills along with opportunity to participate in online challenges by various organizations

A Creativity Handbook to be shared with schools & parents with in-depth details of the format and preparation

Scholarships for Most Creative Students among other prizes

AIR 1Scholarship

+ Trophy

AIR 2Scholarship

+ Trophy

AIR 3Scholarship

+ Trophy

AIR 4 - 10Cash Award

+ Medal

AIR 11 - 25Cash Award

+ Medal

BEST CREATIVE SCHOOL AWARD

Rs 2,00,000 Cash Prize

BEST CREATIVE SCHOOL AWARD (runner-up)

Rs 1,00,000 Cash PrizeRISING CREATIVE SCHOOL AWARDs

Rs 35,000 Cash Prize each

BEST PRINCIPAL AWARDs

Rs 20,000 Cash Prize eachBEST TEACHER-in-CHARGE AWARDs

Rs 10,000 Cash Prize each

We are also introducing Scholarships for the first time for Most Creative Students in order to motivate them to further grow their creativity andsucceed in the 21st century. This will also be supported by over 140 other cash prizes and over 500 other in-kind prizes

Kidovators 2017 will celebrate the Best Creative Awards with schools and students who show the best potential and capability in their CreativeThinking abilities with over Rs 15,00,000 in cash awards along with other awards up for taking. Our efforts here are to encourage schools to help moreof their students perform at their creative best.

KIDOVATORS FORMAT

ROUND 1 REGIONAL FINALS GRAND FINALE

Hour long Written Test comprising ofCreativity-based questions that students willwrite in their respective schools. The date ofthis test will be either in last week ofOctober 2017 or first week of November2017

Top 600 - 900 students from Round 1comprising of Regional & School toppers willparticipate in Regional Finals across 4 - 5locations. In the Regional Finals, studentswill have to complete a series of Creativity-based tasks.

Top 150 students from across all RegionalFinals will be invited to Bangalore tocompete in the Grand Finale. The GrandFinale will consist of sets of individual andgroup tasks. The Final winners will bedeclared from the total scores here.

The fee covers participation in the entire competition, hand-book and preparation assistance to teachers and parents as well as full one year access toKidovators.com online platform for continuous engagement to improve creative thinking ability. In case, your school fee is lower than Rs 18,000 perannum, please reach out to +91-8197392069 or kidovators@addongyan.com for a reduced fee per student.

While students will need to make their own travel arrangements, lunch & snacks will be provided for students and teachers by Kidovators during theRegional Finals and accommodation for 2 days along with food will be provided for students and teachers by Kidovators during the Grand Finale.

(for newly enrolled schools)

Rs 575 per student(Rs 40 – 120 per student will be paid back to school for invigilation and

other overheads)

(for schools enrolled in previous year)

Rs 400 per student(Rs 40 – 120 per student will be paid back to school for invigilation and

other overheads)

PARTICIPATION FEE

KIDOVATORS ONLINE PLATFORM

Keeping in mind our focus of not only measuring creative thinking skills but also helping students enhance and hone these skills , we are coming upwith Kidovators.com – an online platform dedicated to provide students with a holistic avenue to understand and hone their creative thinking skills.

The fee of the platform is bundled within the total fees. Every student who is a part of the Kidovators process will be provided with a One Yearaccess to Kidovators.com.

What will happen on Kidovators.com?• Spotlight challenges and real life existing problems provided by various Corporates & NGOs to students to provide solutions• Regular challenges created by the Kidovators experts that will expand the creative thinking horizon of students • Provide students / parents with a platform to showcase works on creative thinking abilities of students• Provide teachers and parents with a tracker to check the Creative Thinking Quotient scores and detailed performance reports of their wards

PARTNERSHIP WITH EREHWON INNOVATION CONSULTING

With more than 22 years of experience & over 250 projects for 150+ global organizations on ‘Orbit-shifting Innovation’, Erehwon Innovation Consulting is the leading innovation consultant across the world. GyanLab has partnered with Erehwon for Kidovators where Erehwon will lead the development work on the content, evaluation & assessments for the entire Kidovators platform including the main competition as well as Kidovators.com.

This partnership will ensure that the content used at Kidovators is deeply researched and extremely suitable for testing and improving creative thinking skills of students. Rajiv Narang (Founder, Erehwon) and his amazing team at Erehwon have also committed to work with GyanLab over the next few years as we research and develop newer concepts and grow existing work on Creative Thinking skills.

As a part of this effort, we are conducting a series of workshops in partnership with Erehwon Innovation Consulting on Creative Thinking & Innovation for Principals & School Management which would be the first of its kind in India.

C O N T E N T & A S S E S S M E N T S

TOP PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS include:

KD AmbaniVidyamandirJamnagar, Gujarat

Global Indian International School

Bangalore, Karnataka

Podar International School

Junagarh, Gujarat

Pushpalata British International School

Tirunelveli

Delhi Public School NalcoNagarAngul, Odisha

BGS National Public School

Bangalore, Karnataka

The Lexicon International School

Pune, Maharashtra

Delhi PublicSchool

Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh

Global Indian International School

Indore, Madhya Pradesh

Bharathi Mat. Hr.Secondary SchoolCoimbatore, Tamil Nadu

SBOA School& Junior College Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Delhi Public School Kalinga

Cuttack, Odisha

NPS International Mysore, Karnataka

St. Xavier’s High School - CBSE

Cuttack, Odisha

The LexiconSchool - Hadapsar

Pune, Maharashtra

EXPERTS & ADVISORS at Kidovators

RAJIV NARANG (Founder & MD, Erehwon Innovation Consulting)

RAJEEV MENON (Former Head – Corporate Business, Merittrac)

MADAN PADAKI(Founder & CEO, 1Bridge)

M CHANDRASEKARAN(Former Corporate Advisor, Manipal Group)

LUIS MIRANDA(Chairman, Centre for Civil Society)

PRIYADEEP SINHA(Founder, Kidovators Challenge)

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