As a global technology company, Intel believes it is its responsibility to help in preparing tomorrow's generation for the demands of the future. The Intel® Education Initiative is a large–scale, sustained commitment to accelerate education improvement for the knowledge economy — as a trusted partner to governments and educators worldwide. With an annual investment of approx. USD 100 million in over 50 countries, Intel’s education programs focus on:
Intel® Teach Program
The The initiative is a worldwide, multi–million dollar effort that seeks to:
improve teaching and learning through the effective use of technology
advance math, science, and engineering education and research
advocate for and celebrating 21st century educational excellence
The Intel® Teach Program is a professional development program that helps classroom teachers effectively integrate technology to enhance student learning. It is the most successful professional development program of its kind.
More than 4 million teachers in over 40 countries trained since 1999.
Results: 89 percent of teachers report using technology with their students as a result of the Intel Teach Program.
In India, the Program has impacted over 770,000 teachers across 15 states governments, 2 Union territories, 40 teacher education universities and Central govt relationships like NVS, KVS & NCTE.
IRIS (Initiative for Research & Innovation in Science)
IRIS (Initiative for Research & Innovation in Science) is the merging of ‘Intel Science Talent Discovery Fair’ (ISTDF) and ‘Steer the Big Idea’ from CII (Confederation of Indian Industry) and DST (Department of Science & Technology, Govt of India). The mission of IRIS is to promote and nurture science and scientific research amongst young Indian innovators, recognize and reward outstanding projects and provide a platform for the young innovators to interact with Indian industry as well as get recognized at International events.
In 2007, IRIS impacted over 40,000 students and 4500 teachers through 78 workshops across 24 states governments, 2 Union territories, Central govt relationships like NVS, KVS and other schools.
Annual national fair of IRIS invites students from class 5 to 12 to compete for national honors.
IRIS has been participating in Intel ISEF (world's largest pre–collegiate science fair) held in US, every year. The 2007 fair drew more than 1,500 young scientists from 51 countries to compete for USD 4 million in scholarships and awards. Since 1999, team India has won over 50 awards.
Intel Higher Education Program
In the knowledge economy, technology is a key to global competitiveness. For countries to become or remain competitive, their universities must produce a pipeline of technical innovators who contribute to the advancement of local technology, and the local economy.
To achieve this goal, Intel collaborates with top universities to expand university curricula, engage in focused research, encourage students to pursue advanced technical degrees, and build local innovation capacity through entrepreneurship so they are able to function in, and shape, the world ahead.
The key strategies of the Intel India Higher education Programs are:
Expand the R&D capabilities in India
Build skilled pipeline
Develop ecosystem to support new technology adoption
Build an entrepreneurial ecosystem with technology training and a global platform
To achieve these objectives and strategies, the program works closely with select premier institutions and universities (Intel India Higher Education Focus Institutes) along with the Government of India — Department of Science & Technology, Ministry of Communication & IT, Department of Technical Education and other ecosystem partners like NASSCOM, TEQIP to help enrich the quality of technological and intellectual human resource available for the rapidly proliferating technology economy.
Accelerating the development of world–class curricula
Developing leading–edge curriculum to teach the engineers of tomorrow is a challenge faced by universities. The Intel® Higher Education Program works to accelerate this process by providing "world class" curriculum modules developed by leading universities worldwide through various support programs.
Curriculum proliferation workshops are conducted with focus on innovation and best practices in curriculum design and teaching methods for incorporating emerging technologies into current engineering curriculum. Intel Higher Education in India is currently supporting select universities who are involved in education surrounding advancing the move of Multi–Core architecture. Having IIT Kanpur and IISC Bangalore develop a world–class curriculum and in an endeavor to proliferate multi–core curriculum adoption in India, Intel has reached out to 600+ faculty members from 210 institutes across India. The on–going multi–core university initiative at Intel aims to change curriculum of close to 150 engineering institutes by end of 2008.
Some of the curriculum modules under Higher education program are:
Intel Multi–Core Curriculum
Parallel Computer Architecture and Programming
Signal Integrity
VLSI
Network Processor
Embedded Computing
Wireless Computing
Microelectronics Fabrication
Microelectronics Packaging
Driving innovation through advanced research
Research is the key to developing next–generation technologies. Intel is working with world–renowned universities like IITs, IISc, IIITs, NITs and other tier–II institutes to enable the advancement of technology through a variety of programs including regional academic forums, university research grants and the funding of open and collaborative research labs.
Regional Academic Forums to allow university faculty and researchers direct access to Intel technologists and additionally provide a forum for university participants to highlight their own ongoing research and curriculum topic interests. In India, Intel® Higher Education in association with Intel India Research Council and various other Special Interest Groups, identifies and promotes research at select Indian Institutes.
Supporting opportunities for student success
Intel’s student support programs assist undergraduate and graduate students from Indian institutes studying in the fields of electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics. These programs are tailored to the Indian academia requirements. Student Programs are traditionally supported through the selected Indian universities in each area. Student programs result in the culmination of Intel–Academia collaboration, where research faculty and students can work with Intel technologists to develop the next generation technologies.
Intel supports annual student competitions and the goal of it is to stimulate inventiveness by challenging undergraduates and postgraduates to explore the frontiers of future computing. Intel also conducts business plan competitions, DST–Intel India Innovation Pioneers Challenge to showcase potential global business opportunities of students and aspiring entrepreneurs to the society and it has today shaped into an unparalleled avenue of opportunities for emerging entrepreneurs to explore issues, share ideas and gain insight for commercializing their venture.
Intel invests in the future of technology by offering internships to students in specific four–year and two–year college programs. Historically, a significant number of former interns have ended up building careers with Intel. The Intel Lecture Series of Higher Ed program aims to advance and support higher education through presentations given by Intel's senior technologists. Interaction of members of the academia with the industry has given birth to a number of research projects, new concepts and viewpoints.
Building an entrepreneurial ecosystem
Department of Science and Technology (DST), Indo–US Science and Technology Forum and Intel have signed up a formal MOU on building technology entrepreneurship programs in India. The objective of this program is to give the India faculty the relevant knowledge, expertise and a model curriculum so that the same can be deployed in India academia and also, build an entrepreneurial ecosystem by way of business plan competition.
Intel in association with University of California–Berkeley conducts curriculum programs which provides faculty from around the world with details on how to create and operate a multi–disciplinary, multi–functional entrepreneurship center. Intel also conducts business plan competitions, DST–Intel India Innovation Pioneers Challenge to showcase potential global business opportunities of students and aspiring entrepreneurs to the society and it has today shaped into an unparalleled avenue of opportunities for emerging entrepreneurs
Intel® Learn Program
The Intel® Learn Program is a community–based program in emerging markets designed to help learners (8–16 years) develop 21st century skills (technological literacy, critical thinking, problem solving, and collaboration). The curriculum uses an engaging project–based approach and is delivered in community technology centers.
The program is currently offered in Brazil, Chile, China, Egypt, India, Israel, Mexico, Russia and Turkey.
The program was launched in 2004 and to date, has already reached more than 575,000 learners.
In India, the program was launched in 2004 and to date, has reached more than 43,671 learners in 515 centers across Kerala, Chandigarh and 14 states in collaboration with Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India).
