IGNITED MINDS
A place where minds shine brighter than stars
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IM’s News Bulletin
Mission
Our mission is to empower industries with innovative solutions, nurture talent through academic initiatives, and drive societal impact through community outreach programs. We are committed to fostering collaboration and driving positive change across industry, academia, and society.
Vision
Our vision is to be the catalyst for industry transformation, setting new benchmarks for excellence and innovation. By fostering a culture of collaboration and driving continuous improvement, we aim to shape the future of industries, academia, and society, creating a world where every individual has the opportunity to thrive and succeed.
Our Journey
Ignited Minds (IM) was conceptualized by a team of IITians, ISROites, DRDOites, and other professionals from esteemed institutions to create a bridge between industry, academia, and society. This initiative aims to foster mutual cooperation to provide solutions to industry problems, facilitate institutional placements, and enhance societal welfare. Ignited Minds is driven by the philosophy of solving problems at their origin and devising solutions proactively.
Additionally, IM promotes a startup culture among students, encouraging them to address industry and societal challenges through innovative thinking.
IM’s motivation to run this interface organization stems from the desire to prepare students for future challenges and opportunities in the country, leveraging collaborative participation to solve problems faced by both industry and society. The programs offered by Ignited Minds are so engaging and impactful that hundreds of prominent personalities, including IAS, IPS, IRS, PCS officers, scientists, doctors, engineers, social workers, and defense personnel, provide their time and expertise. These professionals contribute to academic programs aimed at uplifting underprivileged and weaker section students by providing professional exposure, career guidance, fundamental understanding, and preparation for the nation’s top examinations.
Moreover, several esteemed companies, industries, business houses, organizations, trusts, NGOs, state governments, central ministries, universities, colleges, schools, and spiritual organizations have partnered with Ignited Minds. They seek to resolve their issues and benefit from the young and dynamic network of Ignited Minds. With thousands of institutions and industries, along with hundreds of community groups, Ignited Minds acts as a crucial bridge between industry, academia, and society.
IM works primarily within these three segments—industry, academia, and society—ensuring a comprehensive approach to education and professional development.
What We Are Today?
The programmes and objectives of Ignited Minds can be easily understood by the triangle given below:
Outer Triangle
Industry
The present day industry needs to upgrade itself periodically and resolve the problems occurring with the demand of the customer and fast changing technology. The establishment of the infrastructure for each problem and technology update is not possible for each industry player. In this scenario, the survival becomes difficult for them. Hence, IGNITED MINDS a brain child of IITians and ISROites was emerged out to fill this vacuum.
Institutions
The young and igniting minds of institutions are always curious to explore new horizons in every aspect. The present day education system is not only making the cramming but also posing a big hurdle to expand their wings. IGNITED MINDS was thought of to fill this vacuum where real time industry problems will be fed to these young and igniting minds right from their baby steps in institutions. The scenario full of real time problems, the environment to tackle them, the atmosphere for inculcating new ideas, the ways to realise their ideas, the ease of fund availability for startups, etc., are the things paved to these igniting minds.
Users
Present day users face many challenges in getting the products of their desires. This is the major vacuum to be filled by IGNITED MINDS. The requirement of the users will be understood, the same will be taken to industry the challenges in realizing the same will be choke out by IGNITED MINDS team and same will be resolved through IGNITED MINDS study circles run in institutions.
Inner Triangle
Virtual Fund
Virtual fund concept is the major breakthrough for getting new technologies, funding in futuristic projects, getting low cost workforce, etc. The virtual fund is a fund given to IGNITED MINDS by collaborating industries to obtain the services mentioned above.
Pool of Ideas
Pool of ideas is the pool of new break thronging ideas by study circles of IGNITED MINDS.
Bank of Products
Bank of products is the concept wherein new and exciting products for the user will be conceptualized, designed and realized by study circles of IGNITED MINDS to serve the user base through industry participation
Opening the World to Something New
ROBOTICS, AI, ROCKETING, ML, MISSILES MAKING, CODING, IOT FOR SCHOOL STUDENTS
Our Programmes
Ignited Minds runs programmes for Industry, Institution and Society. A glimpse of the programmes is given below:
Team IGNITED MINDS
Team IGNITED MINDS, where minds shine brighter than stars. IGNITED MINDS is a socio-educational initiative fostering real-time interactions between industry, academia, and society. Led by experts from diverse academic backgrounds and eminent institutions such as IITs, IIMs, NLUs, AIIMS, NITs, and organizations including ISRO, DRDO, CSIR, ICAR, ICMR, BARC, government offices, industries, and startups, we aim to bridge the gap between these sectors.
Although several regular experts of IGNITED MINDS are eminent personalities with vast experience, our promotors felt the need to associate more distinguished professionals with IM’s programs. This ensures that our young and ignited minds apart from industries and society gain exposure to all known innovations and technologies from expert professionals. In pursuit of this, our advisor approached various renowned personalities who universally welcomed and appreciated the programs. They readily consented to support IGNITED MINDS as Visiting Faculties. These Visiting Faculties serve as interfaces among industry, academia, and society on a weekly, fortnightly, or monthly basis.
Our work primarily focuses on these three segments: industry, academia, and society, ensuring a holistic approach to education, industries, societal and professional development.
Why People Love IGNITED MINDS
FAQ's
IGNITED MINDS is a group of professionals and students who are willing to spare their few hours on weekly and monthly basis to uplift the needy students and other members of the society ensuring their participation in nation building as an individual.
Three key ways of working. 1. Professionals guide college students and prepare them to play a pivotal role in achieving their aims and helping school students. 2. Professionals and prepared college students impart their experiences to government or downtrodden school students and guide them to achieve their aims in life. 3. Professionals, college students and industrialists work together for the mitigation of industry problems through the study circles run by IGNITED MINDS in colleges, take innovative ideas from these Young IGNITED MINDS to realize newer products and make an eco-system for villagers and other members of the society to improve livelihood and generate employment.
An array of professionals who work without any benefit for the society train College students to further discharge their duties for social cause. These trained college students reach nearby villages and run variety of programmes in collaboration with industries and startups for villagers to solve their problems.
Industries get solutions of their problems through IGNITEDMINDS professionals and students in a meager investment.
Problems are solved through its professionals and students.
In fact, Industries are becoming a part of social cause. Their CSR funding are used for the welfare of downtrodden students and upliftment of livelihood of villagers and creating employment.
Schools need not to pay anything for running IGNITED MINDS programme for their students.
Yes. IGNITED MINDS have designed a curriculum to run Study Circles in Schools. For this Schools need to provide a room for visiting faculties of IGNITED MINDS.
Innovative projects are executed by visiting faculties of IGNITED MINDS for School Students. From initial days of Schooling, Entrepreneurship skills are inculcated them. Their innovative ideas are taken to next level to realize a product or service out of this.
Yes. Study Circles for college students are the flagship programmes of IGNITED MINDS. Professionals mainly impart their experience to them and these young and IGNITED volunteers take the torch of its programmes to schools and villages.
Startups, execution of ideas into products, industrial problem solving and training to become an effective IGNITED MINDS volunteer are the programmes mainly focused in College Study Circles
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