Amar Kedare
Head of CSR, WPP India Foundation
Jury
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Watch the 2025-26 year
Launchpad 2026, on film
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Students study business. Young Pioneers lets them build one.
Students identify real problems, develop business plans and pitch their ideas to expert juries.
Three years. Real mentorship. Ideas put to the test.
Because entrepreneurial thinking is built through experience, not textbooks. NEP 2020 asks for it; the gap is curriculum, mentorship and a real audience.
What a student is like at the end of it.
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What the cohorts built
Three cohorts, in their own words.
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Seven stages, one school year.
Six parts run through every stage: the Cambridge coursebook, monthly masterclasses, team projects, mentorship, jury rounds and a joint certificate. Teacher training comes before any of it.
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What the school does
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Watch the 2025-26 year
One national platform for young entrepreneurs.
Shortlisted teams pitch original business ideas on a national stage. 2026 ran at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.
Launchpad 2026, on film
71
Teams participated
Beginner
25
Teams participated
Intermediate
32
Total ideas shortlisted
Across both batches
200+
Attendees
In person
Hall of fame
Certified by Get Set Learn and Cambridge. Trophies for winning teams, recognition for school coordinators.
Launchpad trophies
Certificates
National recognition
Bonus awards
Winning team names to be added after the 2026 ceremony.
Founders open the day.
Short talks before the pitches, from people who have built the thing students are attempting.
Meet the jury
Entrepreneurs and educators who hear the pitches and ask the hard questions.
Sheetal Singh
Lead, Academics, Gopi Birla Group of Schools
JuryNarendra Jyala
Founder, Shail
JuryAnand Ghanekar
Fleet Manager, Scorpio Shipping
JuryPranav Bharadwaj
Senior Manager, Finance and Accounts, MAF Technologies
JuryNirmala Krishnan
Education consultant
JuryPriyanka Goel
Co-founder, GoGrub
JuryAbhishek Chatterjee
Founder and Chief Consultant, People Potential
JuryMentorship partner
WeSchool, Bengaluru. Faculty and entrepreneurs mentor teams on the plan and the pitch.
Schools already on the journey
8 schools across 6 states are running the ladder now, from Delhi to Telangana.
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Three levels, one ladder.
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Grade map in preparation.
Every level ends at Launchpad, in front of people who invest for a living.
What they graduate with.
A student who finishes Young Pioneers can think critically about a claim, plan strategically rather than react, solve a problem nobody has solved for them, manage a project to a deadline, lead a team without being in charge, research a market before believing in it, turn an idea into a business plan, and pitch it, and answer for it, in public.
Critical thinking, strategic planning, problem solving, project management and leadership, practised at 13 rather than learned at 30.
What principals ask us.
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