National Education Day

11 November 2021

India marks National Education Day on November 11 to memorialize the birthday of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, the first Minister for Education in India. The CCCD, in association with the EdTech Vertical and the Institute Publications Committee, are celebrating National Education Day 2021 with the following events.

EdTech Talk on "Making Virtual Reality Real for K12 Education"
by Mr. Aditya Vishwanath (CEO, Inspirit and Knight-Hennessy Scholar/PhD Candidate at Stanford University)
12 November 2021 / 6:30 PM / Google Meet (meet.google.com/udd-zdcs-dtf) [organized by EdTech Vertical, CETSD]


About the Speaker
Aditya co-founded Inspirit with the aim to support global access to immersive, interactive, and collaborative learning experiences. He is a Knight-Hennessy scholar and PhD candidate at Stanford University. Previously, he worked with the Google Education team where he explored strategies to integrate low-cost virtual reality toolkits into curriculum, and was a three-time recipient of the President’s Undergraduate Research Award at Georgia Tech. Before Inspirit, he co-founded MakerGhat, a makerspace and incubator network for high-school students.

Watch the Talk here

Student Contests

Extempore Competition on "How do you envision the future of education?"

11 November 2021 / 7:00 - 8:00 PM / LHB 308

(2 min per participant; Top three winners would receive e-certificates)

Essay/Article Writing Contest on "The Future of Education"

[Submission Deadline: 19 November 2021]

Subthemes include, but are not limited to,

  • Diversity and Inclusion in Engineering Education

  • AI-enabled Education

  • Multilingual Education

  • K-12 STEM Education

  • Gamification in Education

Top three winners would receive e-certificates (subject to sufficient number of received entries and quality). The top (one) entry would be considered for inclusion in the upcoming issue of Techscape: The Science, Technology and Education Journal (Convocation Issue)


Selected entry for Techscape (Convocation Issue) - by Stuti Aswani

Download the template here


The entries (PDF) should be between 500-600 words, and should be the original work of the author(s).

All entries would be checked for plagiarism (Entries should not exceed 20% similarity).