100 school kids.
Three weeks.
One IIIT Delhi campus turned into a startup playground.
And at the end of it, a minister stood up and basically said:
"Stop chasing jobs. Build them."
This weekend, the Tech4Future bootcamp finale wrapped up at IIIT Delhi.
Students from Delhi's CM SHRI Schools rolled out working prototypes — not slide decks, not ideas on paper.
Actual things that solve actual problems.
And then Education Minister Ashish Sood dropped the line that made the room lean in:
"Don't worry about resources, only make your vision bigger."
This wasn't a feel-good speech.
It came with receipts.
Remember — Delhi is building 75 CM SHRI Schools as fully digital campuses, with AI-powered libraries, robotics labs and skill labs baked in from day one.
This bootcamp is the first real test of whether all that shiny infrastructure actually produces something.
For decades, Indian school education had one job:
Get you a job.
Marks → college → placement → settle.
Sood is pushing a different loop:
Curiosity → prototype → incubate → enterprise.
He told the students to embrace failure as part of the process.
Keep experimenting.
Keep building.
That's not standard government-school language.
That's startup language.
India already has a roaring startup scene — but it's lopsided.
Most founders come from elite colleges, English-medium backgrounds, urban privilege.
If government schools start producing genuine builders — backed by grants, labs and incubation — the funnel of who gets to be a founder in India suddenly cracks wide open.
A Class 9 kid from a Delhi government school.
With a robotics lab.
A mentor.
A grant.
And a minister saying "go bigger."
That's a very different India than the one we grew up in.
Smart classrooms are nice.
Robotics labs are cooler.
But the actual upgrade here is the expectation being placed on these kids:
You are not here to find work.
You are here to create it.
If even a handful of these prototypes turn into real ventures, this bootcamp won't just be remembered as a weekend event.
It'll be remembered as the moment Delhi's government schools stopped training employees — and started incubating founders.
That's all for now!
