Empowering Tribal Children in Science and Technology for Innovation leading to Entrepreneurship - District Shravasti (Uttar Pradesh)
About Project
About Project
Innovation, according to the United Nations Education Science and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Okoye (2012), is a general change that is deliberate and must never be regarded as simple adjustment. Continuing, UNESCO added that innovation refers to any persistent change in the patterns of behavior of members of an identifiable social system. It is a novel departure from a customary practice that can be sustained for some time which is situational and relevant to a group in time and place, and when widely adopted, it becomes a reform. Innovation is a technique, idea, a practice or an object that is perceived by an individual or another unit as new (Nwafor, 2007). Microsoft (2009) sees Innovation as the act or process of inventing or introducing something new. It is also a new invention or way of doing something. Furthermore, Innovation is a change in the thought process of doing things or the useful application of inventions and discoveries (McGeown 2011). From these definitions, it implies that when new inventions and discoveries are put in practice, or a successful introduction of a better thing/method, therefore, innovation could have taken place. Innovation is also a process that renews or improves something that exists.
It is the act of introducing new ideas in order to improve or make an existing one more effective. Contributing, Okwor (1996) stated that, Innovation refers to a new technique, method or approach deliberately designed and developed to improve effectiveness and efficiency in a given setting. Innovation is equally the introduction of new ideas or ways of doing something that has been discovered or introduced. It could be new ways of teaching, production, construction etc. It must be an improvement to the existing one and must be in the positive direction. Innovation is necessitated by the need for improvement.
From the foregoing, Innovation therefore is an idea that is new to a situation. It is the introduction of new ideas which can take the form of process, programs, products, the means or ends. An innovative approach may be entirely a new package, or an old approach with new ideas harmoniously integrated or aspect of old and new ideas holistically integrated to improve effectiveness or efficiency. Innovative practices are therefore those actions or practices engaged by man through which new inventions are introduced into the society. Innovative practices can be seen in the areas of; Science and technology, Health, Agriculture, Industry, Governance, Education, etc.
Project Comprise different activities like Faculty Training, Students Awareness camp, Project Exhibition, Lecture by expert, Project Proposal Preparation, Evaluation of Proposal, Assistance for Project Development and Consolidated Project Exhibition will be organized in 10 selected Schools of District Shravasti of Uttar Pradesh.