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ShikshaLokam

2897 Registered Allowed team size: 2 - 4
2897 Registered Allowed team size: 2 - 4

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Jan 02, 2026, 12:30 PM UTC (UTC)
ends on:
Jan 22, 2026, 06:29 PM UTC (UTC)
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About ShikshaLokam

Founded in 2017, ShikshaLokam operates as an Education Leadership Catalyst under the aegis of the Shibulal Family Philanthropic Initiative. It embodies the principles of Societal Platform thinking, a systemic approach designed to address complex societal challenges with speed, scale, and sustainability.

As a catalyst for education leadership, ShikshaLokam collaborates with government functionaries, civil society organizations, and academic bodies to co-create solutions that address critical challenges in the education leadership landscape. The organization is committed to distributing the ability to solve these challenges and enhancing the agency of actors within the ecosystem. This, in turn, drives large-scale educational change programs aimed at fostering equitable and quality education.

At ShikshaLokam, we firmly believe that strong education leadership is the cornerstone of education equity. Empowered leaders who are continuously learning and improving create effective learning environments that enable students to access quality education and thrive.

InvokED is ShikshaLokam’s flagship initiative—a global platform that fosters dialogue and catalyzes collective action in the realm of education leadership. Since its inception, InvokED has convened diverse stakeholders, including leaders from Sarkaar (government), Samaaj (civil society), Bazaar (markets), and Sanchar (media), to explore how collaborative efforts can drive sustainable improvements in education ecosystems.

Over four impactful editions, InvokED has highlighted the pivotal role of education leadership in achieving equity and has demonstrated how collective action can inspire a movement toward systemic change.

Hackathon Overview

Are you someone who sees code as your superpower and hackathons as your playground?Does the sound of “debugging” feel like cracking a mystery, and “API calls” like casting spells? If you’ve ever binge-watched Silicon Valley, rooted for Elliot Alderson in Mr. Robot, or dreamed of pulling off a tech revolution like in The Social Network - then this hackathon is where you need to be!

Whether you’re the “coffee-fueled night coder”, the “one-more-feature designer”, or the “big ideas strategist”, this is your chance to team up, think big, and build solutions that matter.And what if we say that those solutions could transform education for millions of students across India? That’s exactly the promise of the Innovation for Education Equity Hackathon - a coding challenge to tackle real-world problems, create impactful solutions, and take a step toward education equity.This hackathon is part of Shikshagraha, a movement to uplift 1 million public schools by 2030 through localized action, collective leadership, and systemic change. In its second edition, the Innovation for Education Equity Hackathon goes beyond ideas on paper. We bring you real-world education challenges straight from the field, inviting you to think deeper, question harder, and design solutions that can truly make a difference.

Last year, the response was nothing short of phenomenal - 1,300+ passionate participants, 700+ teams, and a wave of innovative solutions tackling some of the most pressing education equity challenges in India.

This year, we’re turning up the scale and the impact - bigger problems, bolder ideas, deeper collaboration, and solutions that matter. If you’re ready to build for change, this is where it begins!Who Can Join?

We’re calling all tech enthusiasts, education leaders, students, professionals, and social innovators who believe in the power of technology to solve big problems. Whether you’re a coder, strategist, social sector professionals or creative thinker, your ideas matter. 

Why You Should Be Here?

  • Work on Real Challenges: Solve problems faced by education stakeholders like teachers, principals and system leaders.
  • Collaborate & Network: Work with diverse teams and connect with experts from tech, education, and public policy.
  • Get Recognized: Present your solutions to a jury of thought leaders and win a share of the â‚ą4,50,000 prize pool. 
  • Make an Impact: Build open-source tools that contribute to transforming education for millions.

How It Works?

  • Team Registrations | Dec 22, 2025 - Jan 22, 2026
    • Gather your squad of 2–4 members and register on our official microsite.
    • Pro tip: Assemble a team with diverse skills - it makes all the difference!
  • Online Hackathon Kick-Off (Jan 2, 2026)
    • The countdown begins! The problem statements will be unveiled on January 2, 2026 post which participants can start designing, coding, and testing your solutions.
    • You will get one week to finalise your solutions.
    • Zoom link to join on Jan 2 2026  3 pm to 5 pm  : link to join
  • Online Solution Submission (Jan 22, 2026)
    • Submit your solutions by the deadline. The submissions are online. The submissions will close by 11:59 PM of Jan 22, 2026
  • In-Person Presentation of Solutions (Feb 5, 2026)
    • Post submission of working solutions, top solutions will be shortlisted and the shortlisted teams will be notified via email and will have the opportunity to present their solutions inperson to national and international stakeholders at InvokED 5.0 in Bangalore.
  • Award Ceremony (Feb 6, 2026)
    • The top three teams will win cash prizes from a total pool of â‚ą4,50,000, along with the chance to network with like-minded individuals and experts from the field.

What You’ll Take Away?

  • Practical Experience: Work on problems that matter and test your skills in a real-world setting.
  • Connections: Build a network of like-minded changemakers, including NGOs, policymakers, and tech leaders.
  • Impact: Your solutions will contribute to open-source platforms that can be scaled to drive systemic change.
  • Mentorship: Mentorship will be provided by experienced practitioners and industry experts to support the winning teams in completing their prototypes.
  • Prototype: Turn your ideas into action by building and showcasing a working prototype of your solution, with opportunities to refine it through feedback and iteration.

What We’re Looking For?

  • Innovative Thinkers: Can you come up with a solution no one’s thought of yet?
  • Team Players: Collaboration is key to building something meaningful. The Hackathon starts online on Jan 2, 2026. The submission will be until 11:59 PM, Jan 22, 2026.
  • Problem-Solvers: We need people who can think on their feet and deliver practical, impactful solutions. These have to be workable and tested solutions.

What You Need to Know?

  • Registration: Opens | Dec 22, 2025. Closes | Jan 22, 2026, at 11:59 PM.
  • Team Size: 2–4 members. No changes allowed after registration.
  • Eligibility: Open to anyone passionate about education equity and technology.

Guidelines

  1. Original Work Only: All submissions must be original. Plagiarism or the use of prohibited tools will result in immediate disqualification.
  2. Ethical Conduct: Participants must adhere to the event’s code of conduct, maintaining professionalism and respect for all involved.
  3. Team Composition: Teams must have 2–4 members. Once registered, team composition cannot be changed.
  4. Submission Rules: Solutions must be submitted before/by the deadline. We are looking for workable solutions within the stipulated time. Late entries will not be accepted under any circumstances.
  5. Focus on Open-Source: Encourage the creation of solutions that align with digital public goods standards, promoting privacy, inclusion, and accessibility.
  6. Adherence to Deadlines: Follow the timeline strictly. Missing deadlines at any stage will lead to disqualification.
  7. Accommodation: Travel and necessary accommodation arrangements should be made by the participants themselves. 
  8. Certificates: Certification of Participation will be given to all the participants. 
  9. Prize: Top solutions will be awarded from a total prize pool of â‚ą4,50,000. Only the winning teams will receive continued support and time until the End of March 2026 to develop, refine, and submit an end-to-end working prototype of their proposed solution.

For More Queries:

For more information, visit InvokED or write to us at hackathon@shikshalokam.org.To know more about the open source capabilities built by Shikshalokam visit Elevate.

Together, let’s create a better future for education.

Themes

Theme 1: Lack of on-the-go, need-based support to teachers

Teachers like Sunita across India often find themselves caught between innovative pedagogy learned in workshops and the unpredictable reality of a live classroom. While large-scale trainings introduce concepts such as FLN and activity-based learning, the absence of timely, context-specific support leaves teachers alone in moments of real instructional struggle—when a lesson derails, students disengage, or a concept fails to click. The existing academic support system, limited by infrequent visits and generic feedback, is unable to respond to these “in-the-moment” challenges, pushing teachers back toward rote methods that feel safer but undermine long-term learning and morale. This persistent gap between training and classroom implementation highlights the urgent need for just-in-time, personalized coaching that supports teachers exactly when they need it most—to know more, click here.

Theme 2: Lack of need-based personalized designing in Teacher Professional Development

DIETs and SCERTs play a critical role in teacher professional development, yet today their training programs remain largely centralized, rigid, and slow to adapt—resulting in generic, one-size-fits-all workshops that fail to address the diverse, real-time classroom challenges teachers face across different clusters, languages, and school contexts. With overworked faculty, limited access to timely classroom data, and manual curriculum revision cycles, institutions struggle to personalize training at scale or align with NEP 2020’s vision of need-based, continuous professional learning. This gap calls for a tech-enabled, AI-powered approach that allows rapid customization of training modules, micro-learning aligned to teacher competency gaps, and real-time feedback loops—transforming DIETs and SCERTs into agile learning hubs that deliver relevant, impactful training when it is needed most; to know more, click here.

Theme 3: Gamified Program Design Framework For NGOs

Shikshagraha works with a large and diverse network of education-focused organisations that aim to improve public school systems, yet many of these organisations struggle with a common challenge—clearly designing their programs before starting or scaling. Program design today is slow, expert-dependent, and expensive, as teams grapple with defining the core problem, identifying student-level outcomes, mapping stakeholders, specifying practice changes, and deciding how success will be measured, often starting from a blank page. While Shikshagraha has developed a Common Logical Framework to address this, the next need is a simple, guided, and scalable platform—potentially gamified—that helps organisations step-by-step translate ideas into coherent, review-ready program designs, reducing human effort, building internal capability, and strengthening systems-level impact across the education ecosystem; to know more, click here.

Prizes

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Main Prizes
Top 3 Teams
INR 4,50,000
Top 10 Teams

The top 10 shortlisted teams will also be awarded cash prizes.

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