12 Indian kids to pitch their ideas to Silicon Valley’s top venture capitalists

These kids will also visit the Waymo facility to experience driverless cars and talk to their product managers.

12 Indian children between 6-14 years old are set to head out to Silicon Valley in the United States (US) to pitch their planned applications to investors (VCs). WhiteHat Jr, an EdTech startup that instructs coding to little youngsters, has declared its first-since forever Silicon Valley Program victors. The children have been shortlisted from the thorough rundown of more than 7000 sections from across India. 

The week-long excursion will probably occur in May, where the children will get a chance to try out their plans to VCs, including Nexus Venture Partners and Owl Ventures. They will likewise meet some prominent Silicon Valley business people to learn exercises on a business venture. Their agenda additionally incorporates a visit to Googleplex and a collaboration with their specialists. 

These children will visit the Waymo office to encounter driverless vehicles and converse with their item supervisors. 

The determination interaction 

The children needed to contend in the Silicon Valley Challenge. They were asked to clergyman a thought that takes care of a genuine issue and freely codes an application. The shortlisted understudies needed to go through a mentorship program. In the long run, 12 understudies arose triumphantly. 

As per the authority discharge by WhiteHat Jr, there have been numerous youthful, innovative businesspeople who have positively shaped the world stage over the previous decade. This marvel is relied upon to additionally quicken with significantly more youthful children currently effectively taking up 'coding'. The organization expressed that kids from metro urban communities and more modest urban areas like Nagpur, Balangir, Guwahati, Shillong, among others, had selected WhiteHat Jr to make some industry-grade applications. 

Empowering children to become makers 

Discussing this activity, Karan Bajaj, Founder and CEO, WhiteHat Jr saids, "WhiteHat Jr was begun with the mission of empowering children to become makers instead of purchasers, and the applications that our understudies have made as a component of the Silicon Valley Challenge is a declaration to this." 

As indicated by Bajaj, the more significant part of the victors have made groundbreaking and high effect applications inside only 40 hours of coding on the WhiteHat Jr stage. "We needed to offer them the worldwide privilege openness to encourage business at an early age, and our Silicon Valley Program is that vital stage for youngsters," Bajaj added. 

Among the victors was a 7-year-old Brinda Jain from Bengaluru, who has made an application to encourage a green passageway for ambulances by organizing with a traffic light for the effective administration of traffic. 

8-year-old Souradeep Sarkar from Burdwan, West Bengal, made an application that assists youngsters with dyslexia learn letters, numbers, and tones. To handle the threat of tormenting, 9-year-old Mae from Shillong has made an application that causes kids to report harassing to significant specialists secretly. 

Bajaj referenced that the WhiteHat Jr has additionally begun a 15 under 15 cooperation program wherein the organization will help the best 15 children on the stage brood their new businesses and give a $15,000 association to youngsters.