A quest for educational equity: Rocket Learning founders discuss new-age technologies to transform early childhood development [Video]

With 90% of brain development achieved by the age of eight, ensuring adequate stimulation in the early years is critical to developing IQ and physical abilities.

To take this message forward, AWS Bharat Innovators Series, in partnership with AMD and YourStory, hosted a virtual session with Vishal Sunil and Azeez Gupta, Co-founders of Rocket Learning, an edtech non-profit transforming early childhood education with new tools in India’s underserved communities.

“We aim to be an accelerator in closing the country’s public-private education gap and innovate towards moving the focus from just equality of access to providing outcomes,” said Sunil, pointing to the crisis of 40 million children between the ages of three and six years not reaching their potential due to educational divides.

Highlighting their work in partnership with the government in bringing the latest in education from the world into India, Sunil said their solution is “cost effective, deep, and scalable”.

Titled ‘Closing the Readiness Gap: Scaling Early Childhood Education …