Where Participants learn Design & Engineering skills, discover how to solve real world problems, and build exciting creative projects with like minded people!
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Unfolded as an interactive game
GIC presents participants with a sequence of captivating, hands-on, creative challenges. Each challenge takes them on an exciting adventure where they must imagine new ideas and build them in reality.
Through The Journey
They create Bots, forts, gizmos and games, Explore structures, mechanisms & electronics, and finally create their very own Innovation that solves a simple everyday problem.
Hosted At T-Works
India’s Largest Prototyping Centre
T-Works is a state of the art innovation facility established with the core vision of supporting and fostering innovation.
From everyday products and medical devices to spacefaring components, innovation is a game played everyday here.
This summer, T-Works hosts "The Great Innovation Challenge" to bring the spirit of innovation to children.
Getting a spot at GIC2024
The GIC Bootcamp has a limited number of spots available. In 2024, around 18,000 students from 20 schools will take part in the Preliminary Rounds of GIC in their classrooms. A fraction of these students will join the GIC 2024 Bootcamp at T-works.
To ensure fair enrollment opportunities for all participating schools, a designated quota of seats is reserved for each school.
Registration deadlines and spot availability may vary depending on your child's school.
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Challenge Components
Bootcamp Duration: 1 week. 4 hours each Day
Stage 1: Start to build!
Day 1, 2Tinker with Structures
Participants are given a set of material and a specific goal. They must think with their hands as they build, tinker and hack their way through the levels
Games for Humans
Participants are introduced to Human-centered design. They must create projects that other people can use (or play with).
Stage 2: Alive with
Mechanisms and bots
Day 2, 3The Industrial revolution went full steam once humans learned how to make a motor turn with the push of the button!
In this set of challenges, participants upskill themselves with the power of electronics to make projects that come alive. They use pulleys and motors to make bots and gizmos!
Stage 3: Innovation
Day 4, 5At its core, innovation aims at making life better for other humans.
Now equipped with building structures, mechanisms and motors, participants must apply their design skills to create their very own innovation for simple everyday problems. Participants exercise the complete innovation process from Idea to working prototype!
Final Showcase & Certification
Make a killer pitch
The ability to communicate your ideas and view points in a convincing manner is a vital skill. In a finale event, participants must present an effective pitch of their new innovation to an audience - 'Shark Tank' style.
Awards and Certificates
Based on their entire journey and final pitch, participants receive awards across various categories. All participants receive a certificate acknowledging their new found skills. Visuals of their key projects through the journey are captured and shared with parents for future use.
Eligible Age Group: 4th to 8th Grade
30 participants per batch (Batches organized by Age groups)
Teacher to Student ratio - 1:15
Camp Duration: 6 days
Session duration: 4 hours
Timings: 9am - 1pm.
Enrollment Fee:
₹6,500
(subsidy available for affordable private schools and government schools)
Enrollment Fee:
₹6,500 +GST
Frequently Asked Questions
Our camps are designed to allow for a complete newbie to seamlessly fit in and participate. The levels of rigour we push the kids into varies according to their capability and previous exposure.
Apart from their enthusiastic selves, they can choose to bring lunch. We got the rest!
A large number of projects depend on them working as a team. There are however a few personal challenges when they need to build skill.
Yes - but only at a paper prototype level. Making refined products that actually work is a long process when done right and cannot be acquired in a few days. The focus is more on the process than the end result.
Yes, If you are either traveling or your kids school dates don't match with that time, there are a few other options you can pursue. Call our team to discuss in detail.
