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Program description

EducateZilla is a tablet assisted self-learning program specially designed to improve the quality of learning in local medium rural government schools.

In the past twelve academic years this program has reached 12,000+ children of standards 3-7 from Kannada medium rural government schools across Karnataka. Benefiting from this, many of these children have aced the entrance tests and secured admission in Morarji Desai and Kittur Chennamma residential schools which offer them more challenging and fulfilling learning environments. Many others have confidently transitioned to English medium in high school.

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The academic year 2024-25 has come to an end and so has another successful year of the EducateZilla program.

Once again, it was a pleasure to watch young rural school children take advantage of our technology to master their curriculum in English and Mathematics.

This year too the EducateZilla program was conducted as a series of challenges each lasting for a period of 8 weeks. In each challenge, the children of 3rd and 4th standards learnt English and Mathematics through scholastic games whereas children from 5th to 7th standards attempted to master the lessons selected for each challenge using the tabs.

At the end of each challenge, the children's progress was analyzed across all the schools and cash awards (deposited directly into children's bank accounts) were given to those children who

put in consistent efforts throughout the challenge and achieved the highest scores in the scholastic games
answered the highest number of questions and achieved a high knowledge quotient in the curricular challenge
put in a lot of effort and improved their performance from the previous challenge

Highlights of EducateZilla 2024-25

Suvidya Foundation celebrated the 11th anniversary of its EducateZilla program by
- launching the program at a new rural government school
- providing hardware upgrade to some of the schools that are already under the program
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A girl from 7th standard answered a whopping 12,000 questions during the academic year, with near perfect scores.
Many other children answered more than 5,000 questions through the academic year to grab the top spots for their schools.
On the average, each child answered more than 1,300 questions during the academic year.
To our absolute delight, each challenge saw more children earning cash awards than the previous one.
Suvidya Foundation gave away more than two lakh rupees as cash awards.

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EducateZilla cash award winners - March 2025
The top 3 schools with overall best performance were awarded trophies for best adoption of technology in learning.
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Summary of the first ten years of the EducateZilla program

Suvidya celebrated the 10th anniversary of its EducateZilla program in November 2023. To celebrate this milestone, Suvidya released a short video on its journey thus far. Here is the link.
From 2013-14 to 2019-20, the program was conducted as a year long competition. At the end of each year the best performers were rewarded.
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End of the year prize distribution
During the pandemic, Suvidya conducted mobile based challenges to encourage children to learn from home. Additionally, Suvidya mentors conducted tablet assisted self-learning sessions outdoors when possible.
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EducateZilla mobile challenge winners (2020-21)

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Determined children learn outdoors!
Post pandemic, Suvidya reinvented the program to bring the children's focus back to learning. Instead of the year long challenge, it conducted several short term curricular challenges each with cash awards for the best performers. This has certainly reignited the passion for learning amongst the children in our rural schools.
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Cash award winners (2023-24)
Suvidya has empowered many partner NGOs with technology and training to implement the EducateZilla program in the rural schools that they work with.
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EducateZilla program at a tribal school
For many years now, Suvidya mentors have been effectively using the EzMentor technology every day on the mentor tab given to them. This technology facilitates the day-to-day activities of the mentor in the field such as
- Getting software and content updates from the Suvidya server and distributing the updates to the tablets in schools
- Collecting the progress data from the schools and uploading the same to the Suvidya server
- Adding user accounts to tablets
- Preparing reports about children's progress, issues in the field and so on.
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In 2023-24, Suvidya has begun empowering remote rural schools, which are not easily accessible to the mentors, with the EzMentorLite technology. This technology enables one of the teachers to function as the Suvidya mentor for the school using their own mobile. Using this highly simplified, user friendly technology the teacher can
- Get software and content updates from the Suvidya server and distribute the updates to the tablets in the school.
- Collect the progress data from the tablets and upload the same to the Suvidya server
- Add user accounts to tablets
This technology is sure to bring more remote schools under the EducateZilla umbrella in the future.

Program expansion

Encouraged by the positive outcome of the EducateZilla program so far, Suvidya Foundation plans to extend the program to more schools in the future. It plans to enable at least two new NGOs per year in Karnataka to use this technology and content to benefit children at schools in their region. Further, Suvidya Foundation aims to partner with NGOs in other states to increase the reach of this technology to rural schools pan India.