OUR THEORY OF CHANGE

01. We create leaders for tomorrow

In India there are over 1 million engineering applicants every year. However, fewer than 0.1% get hands on learning experiences or global exposure during their engineering education despite their calibre and efforts. This is especially the case for students from small colleges and universities which make the majority of the institutions. As a result there is a huge waste of talent and lack of experience in design, innovation, and creative capacity building. Lab-X Foundation aims to create the first of its kind structured program that connects hundreds of small engineering schools in India through various opportunities and resources, such as international internships, projects, innovative competitions and workshops.

In so doing we aim to build within the Indian community, a strong foundation of scientists and entrepreneurs who are both able and motivated to create change in their communities.

OUR THEORY OF CHANGE

02. Strong Partnerships

Lab-X works in collaboration with academicians, scientists and graduate students from some of the top institutions in the US including MIT, Stanford University, Harvard University and National Labs like Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, and NASA. We carefully develop programs that are not only innovative, challenging and fun- but are targeting specific socio-economic goals in the developing countries. We are being mentored by MIT Venture Mentoring Services.

We take pride in our collaborations with some of the best institutes and organizations in the world.

At the same time, Lab-X is well connected with large student networks in India. We have established partnerships with IEEE India, Internshala.com and other reputed organizations to help spread a word about our opportunities to a large number of students.

OUR THEORY OF CHANGE

03. The Ripple Effect

We believe that the best way to bring about socio-economic upliftment of a community is by developing innovative and capable leaders within that community who will solve problems specific to that communnity.

Through its various programs, Lab-X wants to tackle a range of problems, effectively. The adjoining digaram shows the impact that our programs can have.

Our theory of change has already been validated – two of the alumni of our Intern Me program have gone back to their community after completion of their internships and have launched innovative companies to solve some of the problems in their community.