e-Cell
The basic objective of the E-Cell is to nurture the entrepreneurial qualities among the budding entrepreneurs by providing them an environment to grow by themselves and assisting them with necessary resources to develop as successful entrepreneurs of tomorrow.
Aim:-
1) To enable young India to dream
2) To sow the seeds of entrepreneurship within the youth of the country
3) To help use education to generate employment while following best business practices.
Mission:-
– Developing India’s next generation innovators, entrepreneurs and change-makers.
– To guide the finest innovations from Indore to a vibrant business concept and resource them to establish themselves as the country’s next ground breaking start-ups.
– To inculcate the spirit of entrepreneurship among students and promote them to live their passion and develop excellence in it.
– To bring about partnerships from other frontier organizations in the field of entrepreneurship so that students get access to vast amount of resources.
– To inspire more and more students to take up entrepreneurship as a career and become the role models for the coming generation of entrepreneurs.
– To help students acquire necessary knowledge and skills, so that they can translate their vague ideas into a vibrant business proposal.
– To connect with entrepreneurial leaders and innovators and engage them to foster the same passion and spirit in the current breed of students at our school.
– To build itself as a platform for new innovations, out-of-the box thinking and passionate ideas.
The School is planning to have an incubation centre for student start-ups which will provide them with all the facilities required to develop their innovative thinking.
e-Cell Activities:-
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CREATIVE THINKING
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SENSING ENVIRONMENT & OPPORTUNITY SEEKING
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IDEA GENERATION
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MARKET RESEARCH
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BUSINESS ARITHMATIC
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BUSINESS PLAN & PREPERATION
Entrepreneurship Summit 2022 organized by Choithram School
January 30, 2022
Over 250 students from across the nation participated in the virtual Entrepreneurship Summit, the flagship event of the Choithram School’s E-Cell from January 28 to 30, 2022. Centered around the theme of ‘Engaging Minds and Empowering Skills’, the three day event allowed students to hone their entrepreneurial abilities. The orientation for the summit took place virtually on January 16, 2022, witnessing the participants learn various concepts of entrepreneurship and the basics of their events from the team at E-Cell, Choithram School.
‘Startup Solutions’ aimed to make the budding entrepreneurs participating in the event contextually aware and develop their critical thinking abilities by tasking them to come up with B2B enterprise solutions which used limited resources in innovative ways while being restricted to a certain geographical area. Participants in the event worked hand in hand with society and nature. The participants were judged and mentored by serial entrepreneurs including Mr. Shubham Patidar, founder and CEO of Tealogy, Mr. Anukrit Saxena, founder and creative director of Latent Brush as well as Mrs. Arti Agrawal, co-founder and COO of Anaxee Digital Runners Pvt. Ltd.
‘Business Arcade’ combined financial cunning with quick-thinking skills and allowed participants to participate as either ‘investors’ or ‘executives’. Business Arcade challenged every aspect of the participants’ thought processes by requiring executives to lead companies which they would reverse engineer from basic information to an Initial Public Offering, and investors to invest virtual cash in their companies based on predictions of their future performances. The event’s judges included seasoned experts Mr. Aditya Awasthi, a consultant at The Rasich Group, Mr. Sameer Gade, Vice-President at Kotak Securities, Mr. Anupam Mundra, Head of Performance and Optimisation at Geoserve Marine Management pvt ltd, and Mr. Harsh Tiwari, Manager of Consultancy Services at Cognizant.
‘Battle of Brands’ involved a live business simulation where the market was filled with duopolies over various products and services, and managers of these big businesses were the participating team. The teams had to lead their companies through a branding battle against their rivals and solve a crisis on the spot to survive in a competitive market. Battle of Brands too had a exciting list of judges: Mr. Ankit Goyel an experienced enabler for marketing and IT aided services with a demonstrated history of working for various industries, Shivani Bagdai, the founder of TriChambers which specializes in identifying critical inflection points in entrepreneurs as well as Ms. Aparjita Bhadouriya, the founder of Aarambh.
The E-Summit culminated with a heartwarming closing ceremony on January 30, 2022 wherein President of E-Cell, Himanshu Rathi and Mr. Rajesh Awasthi, Principal, Choithram School enlightened the gathering with valuable insights and declared the winners of the events.
Entrepreneurship Summit 2018 organized by Choithram School
November 8, 2020
Students of E-Cell of Choithram School independently organized Global E-Summit for students of classes X, XI and XII from November 6 to 8, 2020 on the theme ‘Digitalising Entrepreneurship’. The event witnessed participation of 12 schools from India and one school from Philippines. The entire three day event was streamed live on School Facebook Page.
Opening Ceremony
The opening ceremony was moderated by Deval Maheshwari and Shambhavi Manjrekar who articulated about how E-Summit came to existence post 1440 hours of planning and a plan to boast the entrepreneurial understanding of about 140 students. The opening ceremony showcased the teaser of E-Summit 2020 which was created by Tanishq Kekre, Technical Head of the entire event. Dhruvi Nagpal, President of E-Summit 2020 welcomed everyone mentioning how E-summit is among vast opportunities available even after an impacting lockdown.
Ramit Singh Chimney, founder of the RASICH Group and the 8one Foundation which is best known for having provided key suggestions to the MHRD for framing the new education policy was the keynote speaker. He discussed about importance of becoming one’s own support, being strong individuals, balancing smartness and hardwork so as to build up efficient understanding of the surroundings. Harshit Goyal, the Event Co-ordinator talked about difference between real entrepreneurship and the delusion of materialistic entrepreneurship created by fancy ideas of social media in our minds. Furthermore he focused on importance and the ways for introspecting oneself and figuring that one spark which persuades one towards entreprenuership via an eminent example of his own journey as an entrepreneur.
Sell-A-Thon
Sell-a-Thon was the first event of the E-Summit 2020, conducted on November 06, 2020, post the opening ceremony. Sell-a-Thon was a fast-paced product or service pitching activity, focused at developing and testing the creative and presentation skills alongside the instantaneous state of mind, which are a few essential traits for any entrepreneur in the long run. Distribution of the topics kicked off at 12 noon. To maintain the fair spirit of the event, categories were distributed at the interval of 5 minutes each so that every participant got only an hour. All the categories were wide enough to come up with some ingenious and visionary ideas. The judges of the event were: Ms. Shivani Bhasin, who works as part of the Growth Strategy team – Founder’s Office at India’s Largest Managed Accommodation Start-Up – Stanza Living; Mr. Sheetal Parikh, a business leader and hotelier managing his own venture; Ms. Kajal Huria who has worked in the field of Digital Marketing for four years and is currently an Accounts Manager at WatConsult, Delhi, while training students, freelancers, and startups on the subject; as well as Mr. Anurag Verulkar who has led some large Business Transformation and Digital Transformations across APAC, Europe and US markets over these years. The students came up with ideas which were original, innovative, creative and practical. A question-answer round was followed after every pitch, wherein the questions were initiated by our judges who were posing as consumers.
Ideate Project
The ‘Ideate Project’ on November 7, 2022 was a real-life stimulation wherein the teams pitched their novel entrepreneurial plan to judges impersonating as potential investors. Teams designed a product or service which innovatively accentuated solutions to the problems encountered by various economic sectors during the COVID-19 pandemic. Pioneers of entrepreneurship – Mr. Ichchit Agrawal, Mr. Anurag Verulkar and Mr. Nayan Agrawal anchored the teams with constructive feedback on how they could make their projects more economical and approachable; ultimately guiding the teams to reach the next level. The event heads, Charvi Gangwani and Nandini Bhachawat were captivated by the way teams charismatically presented innovative ideas and compelled the investors! The event witnessed path-breaking experiences in each team’s disruptive domains and entrepreneurial pitches. The transformation of thoughts into actions was celebrated at each step in the Ideate project.
Rebranding
Each team was given a task of ReBranding, or reinventing the public image and brand working of a popular company, which was to be based on a Case Study provided to them by the members of eCell Choithram School. The event, which sought to polish the speaking, thinking and innovation skills of the participants, was overseen and judged by Mr. Sunny Wadhwani, an alumnus of Choithram School and Founder-CEO of Wadhwani Enterprises, Mr. Mayank Batra, Founder at Get Digital with Mayank, along with Mr Sachin Pande, a fount of Wisdom on Entrepreneurship and also an alumnus of Choithram School, Indore. The judges commented on each team’s presentation and guided each participant with constructive feedback to enhance their entrepreneurial skills. 13 teams from all across the globe, right from Indore, Delhi, Rau, and the Philippines successfully presented their business templates for the brand ReBranded by them with high professional splendour, with each presentation raising the bar afloat on innovation, creativity and wonderfully presented thoughts. The ReBranding event celebrated every aspect of entrepreneurship, making sure that the participants’ learning from these experiences remained carved in their minds forever.
Closing Ceremony
The Closing Ceremony featured addressals by the heads of the eCell at Choithram. It was graced by the presence of Mr. Shailesh S Niyogi, recipient of the Bank of America and the ICICI Prudential-Select Award, who inspired the participants to keep their brain-cogs in motion even after the end of the event and to grace challenges in life as ‘old friends’. Mr Rajesh Awasthi, Principal at Choithram School who was responsible for making the event a possibility, also motivated the students with his words of wisdom and inspired them to keep working towards their dreams. The event concluded with the declaration of results for the three events of the eSummit 2020 and a celebration of the participants’ efforts.
Entrepreneurship Summit 2019 organized by Choithram School
November 17, 2019
The E-Cell of the school comprising of class 11 and 12 students of the school organised E-Summit 2019 from November 15 to November 17, 2019 on the theme ‘Dampers Are Imagination, Just Mind The Business’! The three day event witnessed participation of 150 students from 10 schools of Madhya Pradesh in various activities in sync with Harry Potter series. The opening ceremony on November 15, 2019 was graced by Mr. Tejas Kumar Jain, CEO of Muniversiti who shared his vision of young and entrepreneurial India.
November 16, 2019 witnessed workshops conducted by experts from different fields. Workshop on ‘Creativity and Innovation’ was taken by Mr. Rajesh Awasthi, Principal of Choithram School while Miss Kajal Huria conducted the workshop on Digital Marketing. Miss Kajal educated the students with a simple formula that is Growth Hacking = Digital Marketing. The Start-Up Expo was a chamber of secrets where different teams pitched their ideas to the various investors. The Simulation Game gave the students an opportunity to use their theoretical knowledge in a practical way.
The last day of Entrepreneurship Summit started with interesting sessions. The students attending workshops got an opportunity to meet young entrepreneurs Mr. Angad Singh Malik and Miss Shivani Bagdai who enlightened the students about branding and strategy. The Start-Up Expo witnessed presentations by different teams who were questioned by a jury comprising of entrepreneurs Mr. Jayesh Balani and Mr. Rajesh Krishnan. The students of the Simulation Game prepared business plans and conducted board room meetings to make themselves familiar with the proceedings of a real company. The closing ceremony of Entrepreneurship Summit was presided over by Mr. Avinash Sethi, CEO of Infobeans and Dr. D. L. Sunder, Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Indore. Mr. Avinash and Dr. Sunder cultivated the spirit of entrepreneurship amongst the budding entrepreneurs sharing their inspirational journeys.
Entrepreneurship Summit 2018 organized by Choithram School
October 31, 2018
With entrepreneurship emerging as a popular choice among an increasingly number of school students across all streams, the fact still remains that few of them go on to be successful. This goes on to show that there is definitely scope for improvement in the entrepreneurial environment of our country and Entrepreneurship Summit’18 by Choithram School on October 30 & 31, 2018 was one such endeavour by the student community to help those who are looking to venture out or are already on the path for it right from the primary education level. Over 100 students from 13 schools of Madhya Pradesh became a part of this auspicious celebration of Entrepreneurship.
With a series of talk sessions spread over two days, students got a chance to interact and learn from some of the most experienced people who have ve made it big. The inauguration ceremony saw the motivational speaker, Mr Pratik Uppal, address the gathering while sharing his vision of young and energetic entrepreneurial India. Dr Priyanka Mokshmar (Co-Founder, Vaayu India) talked about her entrepreneurial journey and the important role that the youth have to play today in disruptions in well-established industries, citing herself as an example. Mr. Pushpendra Singh Jadon (Founder, Key Elements) emphasized on entrepreneurship being the need of the hour with a sheer focus and long-sightedness. He believes that we need to create businesses that solve problem rather than create new problems in the society.
Competitions:
A) Business Idea Presentation was organized with an objective to provide school students with an opportunity to present their innovative idea wrapped up as a potential working start-up in future. This event examined the ability of the participants to evaluate the market, the customer needs and their distribution strategy for a product they had already prototyped. With a total cash prize of INR 5,000 the event saw 13 teams being shortlisted for the final round. Experts from the industry, Mr. Rajesh Joshi and Mr Anand Ingle, judged the competition.
Winners
• Sri Sathya Sai VidyaVihar
• National Public School
• Choithram School, ManikBagh – Special Mention Award
B) Innovation Challenge, evaluated the innovation skills of the students tocome up with an innovation in already existing products in market. Student teams were given an on-spot challenge to bring about an innovation in already existing product, ‘Toothpick’ within 20 minutes. The students looked quite excited about this competition and came up with some creative ideas to disrupt the market.
C) Business Quiz was organized with an objective to test the knowledge about the recent scenarios and trends in the corporate world. The four-round quiz was conducted by the quizmaster Raj Sahu, a student at Choithram School.
Winners
• The Emerald Heights International School
• Vidyasagar School
This summit started off as an endeavour towards ‘Seeding the Impact’ of all the ideas of all students out there and with the plethora of sessions and skill building exercises in conjunction with multiple networking opportunities, it has laid the firm foundation for quite a few ideas and ignited the spark in young minds to come up with a few ones too.
