Junior Make-a-thon (JMT) 2025,

About the event

Calling All K12 Innovators!

Get your students ready for the ultimate innovation challenge—JMT 2025!

After multiple successful editions of many innovations, JMT is back, bigger than ever, and ready to get Young Indians to ideate, design, and prototype.

This Nationwide Makeathon is designed to push students from Grades 6-12 to think outside the box, solve real-world problems, and showcase their Maker capabilities on the grand stage @ IIT Madras Campus.

Why JMT 2025?

Because it’s more than just another competition—it’s a chance for students to collaborate and create, to design and deploy, and Make a real impact.

What Makes JMT a Unique Makeathon in India?

• Pan-India Glory : Schools from across the country participate, making this a truly national-level recognition for the finalists competing at IIT Madras Campus.

• Learning Guaranteed : Students to get to learn and demonstrate immersion and ideation before prototyping, ensuring learning is guaranteed for every participant

• No Registration Fee : This ultimate platform for students to test their ideas, to make and test, is FREE. No Registration Charges.

Why should you sponsor?

As a pioneer of STEM Labs, Makerspaces and Design Thinking since 2011, Creya has been conducting Makeathons for more than a decade promoting the ‘Creyate for India’ skills in Young students.
Listed below are the outreach initiatives over the event that will carry the branding of the Sponsor:
1. Email Campaigns: Creya Learning /JMT emailer campaigns to a qualified database of 50,000+ schools. From calling
team nominations till announcing winners, a minimum of 10 mails across the 10-week period
2. Outreach: A minimum of 1,500+ teams are expected to register across the two categories i.e. 5,000+ students from
across India that will be participating in the immersion and ideation phases spread over the 6 weeks
3. Webinars: The 5000+ students and their school coordinators will be attending multiple webinars over the contest
4. Social Media Channels : Creya Learning/Shaastra will run multiple strong social media campaigns with a frequency of
relevant content at a minimum once every 3 days over the 10-week period on FB/Insta/LinkedIn/YouTube
5. Live-streaming: On-site final presentations would be live-streamed on FB/LinkedIn/YouTube to generate substantial
views of more than 25,000+ (schoolmates, friends and families of the finalist 24 competing teams etc.)
6. Digital Certificates with branding for 5000+ students participating in the immersion/ideation phase
7. On-site Branding at the Shaastra Event in IIT Madras campus in posters, backdrops, goodies, trophies and booths.

Balaji Reddy

Pioneering STEAM Learning, Design Thinking and Maker Culture in K12 Schools and through Summer Camps & Internships since 2012 and equipping for future generations with 21st Century Skills such as Critical Thinking, Creative Thinking, Collaboration and Communication Skills. This ensures that you need not invest in multiple programs like Language Labs, Personality Development Labs, Science Activity Labs, Robotics Labs and Math labs. Creya Program benefits outweigh the combined benefits of all of them.

Creya XEL 4.0 is our STEAM Learning & Design Thinking Program focussed on helping K12 students connect classroom theory to real world applications. With projects that include Robotics, Engineering Design, Coding, Internet of things (IoT) & 3D Printers, it helps develop creative thinking and problem solving skills essential for success in school, college, career and life in the 21st century. Creya offers grade-specific, grade experiential learning programs to children from Pre-KG to Grade 12. With a schedule that will be integrated into school calendar; students of each grade would have a designated period for Creya program every week to accommodate the program.

Creya trained and certified coaches work with the school’s teachers to deliver the program. Creya is unique in that it also provides professional development to teachers of your school enabling them to become 21st century educators.

Creya also provides beyond-school value-add programs such as MeerKats & Mean Machines for summers as well as i3:Intro to innovation and industry for high-schoolers aspiring to building high quality project portfolios for college applications.

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