


Entrepreneurship Should become part of School Curriculum – Dr. Madhav Chavan, CEO Pratham at Maxplore Symposium
MUMBAI: Maxplore is on a mission to empower today’s youth to face the unknown challenges of the future. On 30th March 2019, Maxplore invited educators, academicians, and leading figures of education to Maxplore’s Symposium of Principals. The aim of the event was the...
The next generation of Entrepreneurs in the Making
Raising a generation of Entrepreneurs is quite tough, but Maxplore is doing it quite well. To develop the students to become successful entrepreneurs, their foundation needs to be strong. As they say, ‘When the root is deep, there is no reason to fear the wind.’...
Effects of electronic devices on children and solutions to overcome it
Electronic devices have become man’s best friend. And rightly so. Right from waking us up, they communicate for us, shop for us, help us travel, entertain us and often also educate us. Like any other good thing, too much use of these electronic devices can be harmful....
Eureka Junior’18 – Business Model Competition Updates
20th January 2019 morning saw our young minds emerge as new age thinkers and spread their wings to solve the problems of the world. It was the finale of E-Cell IIT-B & Maxplore’s Eureka Junior’18 Business Competition. Out of the many entries received, 8 teams were...
India need a cultural change in Education – Manjul Bhargava
Bhargava discussed a plethora of issues ranging from the importance of early childhood education to the need for a borderless world of ideas with Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy. Edited Excerpts: Murthy: Most youngsters are scared of mathematics. I have met a few...
Maxplore Clubs launched at St. Xaviers Campus, Thane
Maxplore Club is India’s first integrated club for building EiTM – Entrepreneurship Intelligence at schools. Maxplore is successfully running Maxplore Club sessions at St. Xaviers English High School, Thane for Grades 7th and 8th and St. Xaviers Global Academy, Thane...
Masoom Teacher Engagement Program
It is important for the teachers, co-ordinators and everyone associated directly or indirectly with delivering education to have right set of skills and mindset. It is only then that quality education can be imparted to children. With this objective, Maxplore...
Importance of Perfection Over Promotion
For a student’s overall growth, perfection holds a higher value than being promoted from one grade to the next. While this is true, we often are shortsighted and like to believe the opposite. As a student, when we score 75% and are promoted to the next grade, we often consider that the job…

Habits of the Effective Change Leaders
In our society, unfortunately, a leader is considered as someone who dominates and controls. Maybe this is because we were ruled by outsiders for a considerably longer period of time and we have a notion that a leader is one who only commands and has immense powers.

How to Inculcate the Value of Savings in Your Child
Money cannot buy a mind, but it does gives peace to the body. The value of money is immense from the material point to view as long as we are living. Money needs to earned, saved and then spent to live without worries. Children, before starting to earn are often extravagant...

Things To Learn From FIFA U-17 World Cup Champions
What was the biggest international sporting event that the country has ever witnessed? No points for guessing, it’s the FIFA U-17 world cup that took place in India, for the first time in October 2017. Also, this event left the football enthusiasts waiting with a bated breath, for it was the first time India took part in a FIFA tournament….

5 Entrepreneurship Ideas You Can Explore From Home
The digital era has broken both the traditional definition o and the pre-requisites of entrepreneurship. Forget a business space and huge investments, all that matters now is your skills. With the right skill-set, you don’t need anything apart from a computer and an internet connection…

Top 5 Stories of Social Entrepreneurship Supported By UNICEF
Are you an inventor, and do you believe that your inventions can change the world? If so, you could get a chance to be supported by the UNICEF. They provide a platform for young inventors such as yourself, to put forward your inventions for use world over. They call it social entrepreneurship.

Lessons on Leadership Young Managers Can Learn From Narayan Murthy
We all have heard about fascinating and inspiring stories about the co-founder of Infosys, a business consulting and business outsourcing services company in India. He has carved a niche for himself in this industry with the holistic approach to his work culture and compassion towards the people he engages with.

The Inspiring Story of Lakshey Sehgal The Solar Entrepreneur of Rural India
Solar energy has been in existence since the inception of this universe. Unfortunately, 70 % of solar energy is wasted and to use this energy mankind is putting up lots of efforts to invent new technologies that are affordable, less complex and could be implemented easily

Things You Can Learn from Jeff Bezos on Smart Decision Making
With his smart thinking and innovative approach, Jeff Bezos has made Amazon a brand to reckon with. From its humble beginnings in 1994, the company today is the largest Internet retailer across the globe in terms of market capitalization and revenue…

How To Communicate Effectively within a Team
Communication is one of the original signs of human development and the advent of civilization. Signs and symbols later lead to language which was inspired from natural sounds like that of running water, gushing wind, brushing leaves and calls and cries of animals.

How you can boost the creativity of your child
As kids they start sensing the world from all their senses, they have questions that never seem to end. They are curious about everything and anything new to them excites them. This state of mind is the best time to grow the creative side of the child.

How Open Source Software Have Revolutionize Modern Research
Everyone needs an application which can be customized in modern research operations. Open Source Software Programs give the user an advantage of customizing the software which serves their interests of modern research techniques.

Lessons on Business Ethics You Can Have from Sunil Mittal
In one way or other, we all are influenced or some of them are fascinated by the revolution in the telecom industry. The unprecedented rise in mobile phone usage and decline in data costs in encouraging people to avail these services even in remote areas of India.

How Startups Are Leading the Charge in The Modernisation Of India’s Defence Setup
Defence industry is technologically intensive and advanced industry. It requires huge expertise, innovation and competence. We might have heard of tech start-ups, fashion start-ups or food start-ups but a defence start-up company is something that sounds unusual to...
Journey of a successful student
Student life is that slice of life which is ever cherished by everyone. It is that bitter sweet taste in the mouth which leaves one emotional for life. There are moments of love, passion, dreams, pressure, panic and more to these years of life which are also the most vulnerable ones for the same reason.

Why Is It Important to Listen to Your Children?
The relationship between a child and the parents is a dynamic face-off between the old and the new. The many life-defining moments that arise from the interactions of an experienced mind and a virgin soul helps the growth of mind through better understanding of life for both.

5 Movies That Will Inspire an Entrepreneur
As an entrepreneur, you will always strive for the best and every move you make will have some consequences for it. Good or bad. An entrepreneur is a seeker in a way, who keeps on searching for ways to fulfill his objective and creating something which is truly worthwhile.

What the Military Teaches Us About Team Work
If you look at the CEO’s of fortune 500 companies you will find that almost 15 CEO’s have come from the military background. Former CEO of General Motors, Daniel Akerson, Robert A. McDonald of Proctor and Gamble and Tom Dent of Lumetra are few examples of it.

Inside the Mind of a Millennial
Have you heard of millennials? You see, millennials are mostly people aged between 19-36 years. They are called so because they were born nearing the new millennium. Most of them have now reached adulthood, and they are a generation that experts love to analyze.

How Customer Centric Innovation Can Open Up New Opportunities
As the name suggests, customer centric innovation revolves around the customer. This could be in the form of coming up with new products to meet customer requirements, or involving customers in idea generation, market research, at-home testing and so on.

What Bill Gates Teaches Us About the Importance of Giving Back to The Society
The world around us rotates on an unwritten barter system. The practice of exchanging a good for a good and a service for another service is as old as humanity. It works both for the giver and the taker, both of whom change places with each other with time.

Techniques to Keep Young Entrepreneurs Motivated
Entrepreneurship is a conscious effort towards exploring the multiple dimensions of your personality and inherent skills. It tests your competence and capabilities to a greater extent in adversities. Obviously, an entrepreneur needs motivation from time to time to fight the odds and succeed.

What Elon Musk Teaches Us About Thinking Out of The Box
Elon Reeve Musk the brain behind SpaceX, Tesla Motors, SolarCity and PayPal had a humble beginning in South Africa and a young adulthood full of struggles. His out of the box thinking made him who he is today; a thinker, pioneer, inventor and entrepreneur. Today, Musk is involved in designing electric cars, a futuristic transportation system called the Hyperloop and spaceships.

Importance of Accessing Technology to its Potential
We have been living in the golden age of technology for quite some time now. We have started to understand well how we could harness its potential in the right directions. Technology has taken care of various problems faced by humans as we have progressed with time.

How Small Changes Can Actually Lead to Big Advantages
Change is an inevitable aspect of our life. It brings about transformation and infuses new energy into our lives. Resisting change is like resisting liveliness. We need to come out of the cocoon of comfort and infuse life into our lives by accepting the change.

The Rag To Riches – Story of Howard Schultz (Starbucks)
Is the name Howard Schultz familiar to you? If yes, great! If not, here’s a hint. Have you ever been to Starbucks? Now, that is bound to be a ‘yes’. Schultz is the executive chairman of this globally renowned coffee chain that is committed to deliver something ‘special’ to its customers.

Things every team player should know about empathy
In the most general sense, empathy would mean the ability to understand each other’s feelings. To care for each other pro-actively is the core element of being an empath. Some are natural empaths, while some aren’t. We must accept both and that’s a part of empathy too!

5 Daily Habits of Young Entrepreneurs
All of us aspire to be successful. And being so early in life is what only some of us can achieve. However, what some of us can, why not all of us? Despite our earnest endeavour not all things go right all the time. Hence success is not guaranteed even after all our...
Things You Should Know About Steve Jobs
That the man of many parts, Steven Paul Jobs, who lived from 1955 to 2011, was an American entrepreneur and industrial designer is common knowledge. So are his earthly laurels of being the chairman, CEO and co-founder of Apple Inc, a member of the Walt Disney Company’s board of directors, inventor of Ipad, Toy Story, the Mac Air, the Apple II+ etc…

Top 5 YouTubers In India
Being a successful digital influencer requires a blend of passion and cutting-edge professionalism. In today’s digital landscape, YouTube steals the lion’s share of the credit as a launching platform for creative minds into the greater world of media, publishing and advertising. Top Youtubers have millions, even billions of subscribers offering the content creators celebrity status and global visibility.

Importance of Soft-Skill Training
In the history of mankind, things and practices generally age and they start with being prudent to becoming obsolete. An exception to this phenomenon is Soft-Skills. Earlier, the academic institutes had laid emphasis on the possession of knowledge more than the methods of obtaining or expressing it.

5 Ways to Avoid Peer Pressure
Everybody experiences some or the other form of peer pressure at some point in his/her life. Be it exam fear or fear of failure in a competition or fear of failing to get an approval from parents, all of these can lead to frustration anger and disappointment.
We often identify ourselves with our accomplishment and forget that our ultimate aim in life is to be joyous. We forget that if we enjoy what we are doing right now, everything else tends to follow naturally.

From School Teacher to Billionaire: The Story of Jack Ma
Tenacity (pronounced as tɪˈnasɪti) – The quality or fact of being able to grip something firmly; grip.
Arguably one of those rare people whose tenacity knew no bounds is Jack Ma. He is the wealthiest Chinese citizen, who’s company Ali Express has sales numbers rank globally as second (next to Walmart).

Know About These Big Businesses That Started in A Garage
Do you have a billion-dollar idea that you think will be a massive success given the right environment and support? Do you have a business plan and are confused where or how to begin?

Why There Is No Age Limit for Being an Entrepreneur
It’s all in the mind. Age is just a number. If you want anything wholehearted, the universe conspires to gift it to you. Have you read these lines before? You must have. But the proof of the pudding is in the eating. So, while we refuse to accept the discouragement...
5 Reasons You Should Be a Team Player
As a child, you are full of life, curious about learning new things, and highly experimental. Your capabilities can be increased manifold when you are working in a team. Being young, you have enormous potential and engaging in team activities will provide a boost to your abilities.

5 Must-Read Books on Positive Parenting
We understand that every parent raises a child with their own instincts and set of philosophies but it would be best if they get the suggestions from outside and act on it, if necessary. Books are the guides which help you define your strategies and thinking. When you read a book, you get a sense of how your actions are effectively oriented and in retrospect, you can analyze your methods.

5 Ways Team Sports Influence Student Psychology
Team sports are beneficial for students in multiple ways. When you are in a team, you tend to forget almost everything and enjoy the task joyously. Interacting and co-operating with each other for a common purpose is fun and teaches us a lot in terms of handling stress and time management.

Saving for Your Child’s Higher Education
A good education is resourceful for children in many ways. It helps your children to achieve financial stability, wisdom, and strength to deal with the life in general. The cost of higher education in India is increasing at a phenomenal pace.

5 Traits of a Powerful Leader
A leader is someone who identifies potential opportunities, troubles or adversities and addresses them in an effective manner. A leader sees things that others cannot see. His/her sense of perception is such that it benefits all.
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