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School Innovation Council (SIC)- Relevance for UPSC Exam
- GS Paper 2: Governance, Administration and Challenges- Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation.
School Innovation Council (SIC) in News
- Recently, key details of School Innovation Council (SIC) was provided by the Minister of State for Education, Smt. Annpurna Devi in a written reply in the Lok Sabha.
School Innovation Council (SIC)
- About: School Innovation Council (SIC) is an initiative taken by the Ministry of Education’s Innovation Cell (MIC).
- School Innovation Council (SIC) was launched on 1 July 2022.
- Mandate: School Innovation Council (SIC) is a council of teachers, students, and experts from industry and academia to-
- Conduct round the year activities for students and teachers on Innovation and Entrepreneurship,
- Monitor through the SIC portal of the MIC,
- Record the influence at the ground level.
- Implementation: School Innovation Council (SIC) has been introduced to all schools of all the states including Rajasthan.
- SIC Portal: It has been developed to implement the SIC council in all schools across the nation. schools can register themselves on the SIC Portal.
- Role of Schools: All registered schools are encouraged to perform innovation-related activities as per the SIC Calendar Activities that includes-
- Leadership talk,
- Motivation sessions,
- Webinars,
- Sessions,
- Awareness,
- Boot camps inviting innovative ideas from the student,
- Developing the prototype, and
- National level exhibition of the best prototypes etc.
- Significance: SIC will enable mindset change, awareness, and training on Ideation, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, design thinking, Intellectual Property Rights, start-up finance, and HR among teachers and students.
- School Innovation Council (SIC) will also enable the ranking system for schools on the level of innovation-oriented activities.
School Innovation Ambassador Training program (SIATP)
- About: School Innovation Ambassador Training program (SIATP) was launched through online Mode to strengthen the mentoring capacity of teachers for cultivating and handholding innovative and ingenious ideas from students.
- Teacher Training Modules: Under SIATP, teachers will be trained under following five modules-
- Design Thinking & Innovation;
- Idea generation & Idea hand-holding;
- Finance/Sales/HR;
- Intellectual Property Rights(IPR);
- Entrepreneurship and Prototype/ Product Development;
- Innovation Ambassadors: Under SIATP, teachers undergo 72 hours of training, and those who qualify all the five modules with a minimum 50% as passing marks are recognized as “Innovation Ambassadors”.
- It makes them competent to nurture the young school students on Ideation, IPR, product development, design thinking, problem-solving, critical thinking and skills of entrepreneurship.