Do you see yourself as an ordinary student gathering skills, or as a leader and change-maker—someone determined to uplift their surroundings and create a better tomorrow through purposeful action? This challenge is for those who wish to push boundaries and shoot for the stars. The journey awaits—are you ready? 

Here's an opportunity for you to become a Young Change Maker and make a positive difference among your peers with the knowledge and skills you have acquired so far:

1. More about the Space-related Programme:

• The purpose of conducting a Space-related programme is to share your knowledge of space with fellow students.

• You may organize your programme either online or offline, in formats such as a webinar, talk, panel discussion, hands-on activity, workshop, or bootcamp.

• The duration is flexible—you can choose anything from a few minutes or hours to several days.

• Your audience can be your peers or younger school students in your school, neighborhood, apartment, or community. Be sure to identify the specific age group or classes eligible to attend.

• You may take up this challenge individually or as part of a team.

• The main objective is to spark curiosity and interest in Space Exploration among your audience. Keep your programme simple, engaging, and concise—avoid making it overly complex, lengthy, or fancy.

3. Design your Programme:

• Put together a presentation deck or web-portal to host your learning resources and instructions to the participants.

• Design any quizzes, videos, animations, games, VR tours, apps, chatbots, etc. you wish you include in your programme.  

• Have a rough estimation of how much time it takes for you to teach or your participants to learn each topic.  Based on this, identify the duration of your programme.

• Design the activities, assignments or challenges that your participants have to complete.

• Come up with a schedule of your programme in the form of a table.  The table should highlight the date, time-duration and activities covered in the programme.

• Publish your programme details in the form of a website and include a registration form.

5. Conduct the Programme:

• Promote your programme through: WhatsApp, School Notice board, School Teachers / Principal, Parents, Friends, Relatives or Social-media.  Share the link to your website / registration form.

• Get students to register for your programme within the deadline. 

• Conduct your Space-related programme as per your design and schedule and spread your knowledge and skills with many more students.  Make sure to meet all the targets and objectives of your programme.

Here are the deadlines:

• First stage:  Design and publish your your Space Programme for review by Mentor:  on or before 10th January 2026

• Second stage: Conduct the Space Programme for your target audience: on or before 20th January 2026

• Third stage: Showcase your Space Programme highlighting the impact you have created: on or before 30th January 2026

21st-century skills such as communication skills, collaboration skills, leadership skills, critical thinking skills, creative thinking skills, etc. cannot be taught or learned in the class-room. One has to take action in the real-world to acquire these skills.  

Attempting the challenge will help you acquire a variety of 21st-century skills, which are crucial for students in today's fast-changing and dynamic world.

To succeed in this challenge, it is essential to work closely with your Bootcamp Mentor.

• Plan thoroughly: Think ahead, anticipate possible issues, and prepare solutions in advance.

• Document and share: Create a clear programme plan and design, and share it with your Mentor.

• Seek guidance: Ask plenty of questions and actively invite inputs, suggestions, and feedback.

• Act on advice: Take your Mentor’s suggestions seriously and incorporate them into your work.

• Collaborate fully: Engage your Mentor at every stage—planning, preparation, and execution.

• Take your time: Don’t rush to conduct your programme before planning in depth. If you need extra time to plan and deliver effectively, request it.

Remember: This challenge is not about earning a certificate—it is about becoming a true Change Maker!

Join the Tinker Champs Club:

• Every year, I identify and invite top-performing students from across the country who have a "can-do" spirit, are self-driven, self-motivated and have leadership qualities to join the National Tinker Champ Club, an exclusive club of top students from across the country driving a variety of change-making initiatives in partnership with the Government of India.

• Some of the Tinker Champ Club members have won national and international awards and recognitions.  They have also been TEDx Speakers.  They have impacted more than 1 lakh students across the country through their collective change-making initiatives and programmes.

• Top performing students who complete the Challenge with flying colors will get the unique opportunity of joining the National-level Tinker Champ Club and become a young Change Maker.

• As a Tinker Champ Club member, you get the opportunity to conduct programmes and initiatives at the national-level in partnership with Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog, Government of India.

To know more about Tinker Champs Club, its members, and their activities, please click these links below: 

• Tinker Champs Short Overview: https://sites.google.com/view/tinkerchampsclub 

• Tinker Champs website: https://tinkerchampmakerfa.wixsite.com/tinker-champs 

• Some of the top Awards & Recognitions received by Tinker Champs: https://tinkerchampmakerfa.wixsite.com/tinker-champs/recognitions 

Submit your challenge entry to be eligible for the Young Change Maker Certificate by clicking the button below:

Students submitting the best challenge entry will receive an invitation to join the National Tinker Champs Club.