Telangana Social Welfare Residential Educational Institutions Society (TGWREIS_) will train all its students from Classes VI to X and the Intermediate students about Artificial Intelligence, Coding, Machine Learning, Robotics and online tools.
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The Telangana Social Welfare Residential Educational Institutions Society (TGWREIS), starting 2025-26 academic year, will train all its students from Classes VI to X and the Intermediate students in Coding as a regular subject.
The plan was launched on a pilot basis in its Moinabad Gurukula school last year and following its success, the programme will be extended to all the Society’s 238 Gurukul schools in the State, TGWREIS Secretary V.S. Alagu Varshini informed on Tuesday.
The training, including curriculum development, action plan monitoring and pedagogy, will be provided by United Kingdom-based Raspberry Pi Foundation, which has a five-year partnership with the Society as per an MoU.
Integrating technology
The idea being introducing the students to technical training, following the State government’s emphasis on skills education, they will be taught about Artificial IntelligenceCoding, Machine Learning, Robotics and online tools.
“The goal is not only to teach Coding but also to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the digital world. Under the new curriculum, approximately 1,52,000 students across Gurukula schools will be taught Computing as a regular subject,” Ms. Alagu Varshini explained.
Training will involve two-hour sessions of classroom and hands-on project work each. The curriculum was developed as per international standards in computing education.
The students’ assessment will be done regularly and based on performance they will be issued certificates to validate their earned skills. In addition, the goal is to prepare 250 students as ready for opportunities to work on real-world projects and apply their skills. This will also ensure students develop critical problem-solving and innovation skills to face a global workforce culture in their future.
Coding Clubs
Aiming at an expansive learnings network, it was also planned that each of these schools will have a Coding Club and each zone will designate one boys’ and one girls’ school as a ‘Coding Spoke’ — as a resource centre for all schools in that zone. The centres will be supervised by Coding instructors and 42 such instructors for seven zones in the State are already trained.
Further, each of the 238 schools will have five dedicated coding mentors to coach about 15 students per session. The goal is to train 1,190 students as coding mentors, who will go onto train over 89,000 students across the State.
According to Ms. Alagu Varshini, the initiative is historic for Gurukul education system and is a milestone for technical education in the State. Modern computer laboratories and the required infrastructure to conduct the training are being made available, she said.
Raspberry Pi Foundation, in addition to integrating AI & ML courses, said subjects such as Mathematics and Science will be taught through animated lessons, games, and stories to enhance student engagement and understanding.
Published – April 08, 2025 08:12 PM is
