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Hack to the Future 2025

Hack to the Future brought together 55 students from 5 states to solve community challenges using technology like AI, IoT, and machine learning. Over 1 month, students built prototypes like smart helmets and air purifier masks under expert mentorship. This initiative bridges STEM gaps for marginalized youth by fostering innovation, empathy, and real-world impact in building safer, healthier communities.

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From Anxiety to Hope

With the future being uncertain the importance of Futures Literacy as a skill for young people becomes all the more important. We look at the implications of this and how this skill can be inculcated in our youth. This report introduces a pedagogy of hope in the climate crisis.

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Climate Futures Zine

Quest Alliance's zine elevates the voices of youth from Assam, Gujarat, Odisha. Their lived experiences of the effects of climate change are captured, and the emotional toll of these difficulties is examined. The zine elevates youth perspectives on justice, resilience, and climate adaptation through compelling narratives and imagery. It urges communities and policymakers to acknowledge and support young people as active leaders constructing equitable, sustainable, and hopeful climate futures for all, advocating for inclusive futures where youth agency is at the center of climate decision-making.

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Quest Alliance Updates (FY 24-25)

Quest Alliance reached 750,000+ students and 9,000+ educators, integrating future-ready skills like AI and green tech across government schools and skilling centers. Career pathways were enhanced with placement drives and teacher training in critical thinking and SEL. Youth-led programs like Hack to the Future sparked innovation and systemic change for equitable learning and work futures.

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AI Futures

Education - Research Studies

Hack to the Future: Odisha Edition 2024

In Odisha, Quest Alliance, in partnership with the Amazon Future Engineer program, has been working with government secondary schools to enable students to learn coding. In collaboration with the Mo School Abhiyan Parichalana Sangathan, Quest Alliance has contributed to the development of the Kaushali curriculum, which enables students to develop computational thinking skills.
During this five-day journey, students refined problem statements, brainstormed, worked on prototypes, and learned programming using various software. With each session, they navigated the intricacies of design thinking, software development, and the art of presentation. Through hands-on workshops and mentor-led guidance, they sharpened their skills, learned how to tackle obstacles, and pushed the boundaries of creativity to create impressive real-time problem-solving prototypes.

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Equity in Action: Insights from a five-year-long intervention with women in education and skilling

Adolescent girls and young women in India are faced with multiple barriers and disadvantages that manifest themselves early on both at home and in public spheres. These culminate in adolescent girls and young women having limited agency and decision making ability about aspects of their own lives, in low female labour force participation as well as unequal representation in public life and spaces. To address the gender disadvantages, Quest Alliance has adopted the following strategies in its program design. 

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From Anxiety To Hope: Building Emancipatory Climate Futures Literacy in Young People

With the future being uncertain the importance of Futures Literacy as a skill for young people becomes all the more important. We look at the implications of this and how this skill can be inculcated in our youth. This report introduces a pedagogy of hope in the climate crisis.

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Blended Learning: Experiences in public education and design principles for low-tech environments

The paper draws on insights from our qualitative study with students, teachers, administrators, and parents from 11 states utilizing Participatory Learning and Action (PLA) techniques, interviews, and focus groups. The study was led by Dr. Indira Vijaysimha from Poorna Learning Centre, and Dr. Farhat Ara from Srishti Manipal Institute of Art Design and Technology. Published with support from IBM, it provides a conceptual framework to understand and examine the various necessary components of a blended learning and teaching approach.

Education - Research Studies

Enabling Effective School To Work Transitions: COVID-19 And Beyond

With support from HT Parekh Foundation, we interviewed experts, school stakeholders and non-profits working to build seamless 21st century education systems. This paper explores ways to mitigate learning disruptions by integrating 21st century skills into India's schools.