School students devise website, app to scour for internships

The goal is to promote a more immersive, engaging form of education where students can get hands-on experience to supplement their learning and make guided career choices.

NEW DELHI: A group of students from the Chanakyapuri-based Sanskriti School have come up with a website and a mobile application to help their fellow mates find internship and volunteering opportunities.

The website — www.sanskritiopportunities.org — has been developed by a group of 10 students mostly from Classes 11 and 12 of the school.

The aim of the website, they claimed, was to help anyone looking for internship or volunteering opportunities by connecting them to relevant companies. Students need to register themselves on the website before they can start searching.

“Sanskriti Opportunities aims to do away with the complications involved in the searching for internships and volunteer options by directly connecting applicants with potential match companies. The goal is to promote a more immersive, APOORV PANDEY, Class-11 student, Sanskriti School

engaging form of education where students can get hands-on experience to supplement their learning and make guided career choices,” said Apoorv Pandey, a Class 11 student of the school.

The mobile app can be downloaded from the bar code given on the website.

The main reason for setting up the website, Apoorv claimed, was to help students get through a good university, either in India or abroad. “Once the project was streamlined we divided ourselves. Some of us worked in handling the technological part of the website while others contacted companies and NGOs and told them about our unique initiative,” Apoorv said.

So far a total of 11 NGOs and

companies have been listed on the website with close to 95 students having registered for the initiative.

“Registration is mandatory for anyone willing to use our website. Once that has been done, the person can choose options from internship or volunteering work. The companies and NGOs provide details of their requirement and students get to know if they have the requisite skill set to apply. That is how the interface works,” Apoorv said.

The students worked on the website and mobile app from July to October. The project has already been awarded the ‘Best Case Study’ at The Educational Technology Summit by Universal Learn Today.