Opportunities for students to step beyond the classroom, build real-world skills and turn learning into meaningful action.
From real-world simulations, curriculum-impact to Experience+ and Spark Lab. U/Schoolers helps students move from learning to doing.
Teams get a budget and a real problem to solve - and the strongest ideas become actual funded projects.
Learning doesn't have to end when the lesson does, we help students connect what they learn in school with real-world.
A skills programme for school students. Take a live challenge from a social enterprise, shaped by where you want to go.
Don't wait for an opportunity - start one. Lead your own idea, test it with real people and grow it with mentors and partners.
Students work in teams of three and receive a budget of ₹5,00,000 to develop a solution to a real social problem.
But there's a catch - a great idea isn't enough.
Every team receives the same fixed budget. The challenge: use it wisely.
Identify a real, verifiable social problem - with an actual beneficiary, location and evidence.
Develop a practical intervention within ₹5 lakhs: problem, solution, budget, execution.
Present to a panel of school, SWIS and UNISON reps - defend research, evidence and impact.
Projects are evaluated based on need, evidence, feasibility, cost-effectiveness and scalability.
Only 1-2 of the most feasible projects are selected to move ahead.
SWIS reviews the selected project, verifies requirements, secures approvals and refines the plan.
UNISON runs a school-wide crowdfunding drive across Grades 6-12 to fund the selected project.
Once the target amount is raised, the project moves into real-world implementation.
What changed? For whom? By how much? Documented, not assumed.
U/Schoolers helps students connect what they learn in school with real-world challenges - turning academic learning into exploration, action, reflection and impact.
Connect experiential learning, values and holistic development with real community challenges - helping students apply what they learn through meaningful action.
Move beyond academic learning through research, collaboration and community engagement that encourages students to understand problems and contribute to solutions.
Turn Creativity, Activity, Service into meaningful experiences connecting student interests with real community needs, reflection and measurable impact.
Take issues explored through learning and investigate them in the real world - researching local challenges and developing practical responses.
U/Schoolers helps schools create pathways where academic learning doesn't simply prepare students for examinations. It prepares them to participate in the world.
Experience+ is a skills programme for IB, IGCSE, CBSE and ICSE students. Take a live challenge from a social enterprise, shaped by where you want to go.
Choose your curriculum, the career you’re aiming for and a skill that universities and employers value. We’ll compose a live challenge, the question it raises, and your reflection prompt.
I study...
I'm aiming for a career in...
And I want to build skills in...
Your live brief
A social enterprise working in affordable technology needs you to turn raw usage data into decisions.
You deliver
A dashboard and insight summary
Where it connects
Gives you real material for CAS reflection, TOK discussion and Extended Essay ideas.
The question it raises
Your reflection prompt
Where did a technical solution meet a human limit?
Real work, real thinking, real self-knowledge.
You learn a craft, from research to pitching, and apply it straight away.
Your work lands with a social enterprise that uses it. That is your evidence.
Each mission ends with big questions that connect your experience to how you think and decide.
Notice something that needs changing in your school, your neighbourhood or your city. Investigate it, test a response, and build it into something that lasts. You lead. We bring the mentors, partners and platform to help it grow.
Every initiative moves from a real question to evidence to something someone else can run. Each stage is a decision point, so some initiatives will rightly stop after the pilot.
Identify a problem you care about and write your guiding question.
Idea clinics, a problem-framing guide, an “Is this real?” check.
Research the issue, speak to affected people, define how you’ll measure success.
A mentor, a research toolkit, introductions to people who know the issue.
Run a small, time-limited test with real people.
Permissions, a safeguarding check, a partner to host or advise.
Collect evidence. What changed, for whom, by how much? Reflect on what failed.
Impact templates, a review panel, written feedback.
Grow, replicate or hand over the initiative.
Partner schools, platforms, a documented playbook, a path to sustain it.
Not every initiative needs to reach every level. Each step up means more people can run it without you.
A small test with friends, a class or one community.
Adopted by a club, house or grade, with teacher support.
Replicated by other student teams using your playbook.
Co-run with an NGO, institution or local body, with its own structure.
Is the problem real, and who is affected?
What have you learned from research and people?
Can it work with the time and skills available, and no budget?
Is it respectful, safe and consent-based?
How are you growing, and responding to what goes wrong?
Could someone else run this?
An initiative doesn’t need to be polished to enter. It needs a real question and a willingness to test it.
Submit it in a few lines: the problem, who it affects and what you’d try first.
Join a Spark Lab and explore real community challenges with a mentor until one grabs you.
Take a role in a running initiative. You can lead your own later.
Tell us what you care about and we’ll help you find a starting question.
Investigate before assuming.
Make decisions with real trade-offs.
Move from problem to practical intervention.
Pitch ideas to real stakeholders.
Work through ambiguity and disagreement.
Understand problems through real people.
Learn from feedback and rejection.
Take ideas from research to action.
It needs students who know what to do with what they know.
Whether you're a student looking for your first real-world opportunity, or a school looking to partner with us - U/Schoolers has a place for you.