global Discovery Schools presents All India THE TECH LAUNCHPAD 2014 for grade 4 to grade 9

NEW DELHI - Dec. 2, 2014 - PRLog -- global Discovery Schools, a chain of K-12 schools is organizing the All - India Tech Launchpad competition for students from Classes 4 to 9.  The Tech Launchpad competition has two categories – the Game Challenge for classes 4 to 6, and the App Contest for classes 6-9. By way of this competition, global Discovery Schools aims at unlocking the creative potential in today’s children and enabling them with technology to give shape and form to their ideas.

This is the second consecutive year in which global Discovery Schools has organized an app design contest for children and is building as a big national event every year.

“We would like to encourage children to be innovative and use technology as a tool to solve real world problems. With training from global Discovery Schools’ technical experts, last year children were able to make mobile apps that addressed issues including waste management, women’s safety, support for cancer patients and many more. We look forward to a large participation from young innovators this year as well,” said Vinesh Menon, Chief Operating Officer, global Discovery Schools.

In the App Contest category, participants will design and create a mobile app that serves a social cause in the areas of Education, Environment, Health, Poverty and Civic Facilities.

In the Game Challenge category, participants will design and create an educational computer game that helps in learning a difficult topic in one of the following subjects in the subjects of Math, Science, Social Science, Language & Reading Skills, and Computer Science.

No prior experience is required and global Discovery Schools will provide all the required technical training to the participants. Students must participate in groups of two or three per group. Both categories of the Tech Launchpad competition will take place in three rounds and attractive prizes will be awarded to the top winners.

In Round 1, participants are expected to think of a creative idea for an app or a game and submit their proposal for evaluation. The teams selected will go to Round 2. In Round 2, participants will receive training from global Discovery Schools’ technical experts. They will program their app or game and submit a working prototype. The teams selected in Round 2 will be invited to present and demo their work in person at the Finale.

For more information on the competition and to register, students can visit the dedicated micro-site:

http://www.globaldiscoveryacademy.com/techlaunchpad/index.php

Registrations are open up to 14th December 2014. The registration fee is Rs.300 per team, which includes the training provided by global Discovery Schools. Registration may be done by visiting the nearest global Discovery Schools, or online.

About global Discovery Schools

global Discovery Schools is a group of K-12 schools designed under CBSE affiliation. It opened the doors to its first school in June 2012 in Sevasi, Vadodara. In a short span, global Discovery Schools have a footprint across India in Gujarat, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Punjab, and Maharashtra with several opportunities being explored in Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, New Delhi, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. Currently GDA has 7 schools running across the country with ambitious plans to build more.

The core team managing the schools is a group of NRIs, who are successful management graduates from IIM, Kellogg, Stanford, Wharton, Chicago GSM Alumni, McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Accenture Strategists holding senior positions in the corporate world, serial entrepreneurs, bankers, brand managers, architects and technologists from Fortune 500 companies including Oracle, IBM, Cisco, Microsoft, HP, AT&T, Motorola, eBay, SAP, TIMEX, TI, VM Ware, HSBC & BP.

global Discovery Schools offer a top-notch international caliber of education at a price point that is within the reach of the middle-class. It offers students an opportunity to recognize their strengths and learn to play to those strengths for the rest of their lives. The school chain operates on a franchisee model and has an ever-increasing library of pedagogical content, an increasingly robust set of technologies it uses to manage its schools, a comprehensive and cutting-edge school space design blueprint, and a highly effective set of marketing campaigns that help implant a new school in a new city instantaneously.

About global Discovery Schools’ PEDAGOGY [EDUCATION SYESTEM]

global Discovery Schools’ education system draws its inspiration from various global education models like Reggio Emilia, Montessori, Waldorf Schools, Rocketship Education and our own Gurukul system. However, the concept of GDA has a marked distinction because it innovated ways to provide personalized education to every child. It does this in three recurring steps

·  DISCOVER children's unique strengths and draw a trajectory for their success

·  INTERVENE by offering the right experiences and exposure to assist development of children's strengths

·    MONITOR children's progress to ensure that progress is indeed occurring as per plan

The educators in global Discovery Schools’ facilities also bring a rich variety of global professional backgrounds experience and exposure rather than the routine teaching backgrounds. global Discovery Schools hire and trains them thoroughly, provides them quality mentoring and continuous performance feedback to fuel their development.

The curriculum followed is a 2-layered basic CBSE curriculum that confirms to the CCE standards packaged along with a remediation layer on top of it. This remediation layer consists of "aHa packets" which are a specially choreographed learning experience designed by global Discovery Schools itself for topics that are harder to teach.

About global Discovery Schools’ LEARNING SPACES & TECHNOLOGY

The hallmarks of global Discovery Schools include innovative use of IT to closely monitor and manage its chain of schools and monitor its vibrant method of teaching. global Discovery Schools aggressively use technology in the classrooms to teach effectively. It also teaches a lot of technology to your children.

Every global Discovery School offers a distinctive global Discovery Schools’ architecture and interiors that create learning spaces to support your child's learning process. We refer to the school facilities as the third teacher (the first two being the classroom instructor and the parent).

For more information, please visit www.globaldiscoveryacademy.com.