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Clone Futura Introduces artificial intelligence bootcamps for school children

THE ASIAN AGE
Published : Nov 11, 2019, 10:10 am IST
Updated : Nov 11, 2019, 10:10 am IST

It is the first ever EdTech company to understand the fast paced changes happening in the world.

The course would take the students through various aspects of Data Analytics and AI like Python, building calculator and weather forecasting App etc. (Representational Image)
 The course would take the students through various aspects of Data Analytics and AI like Python, building calculator and weather forecasting App etc. (Representational Image)

Mumbai: Clone Futura partners with IIT Alumni for AI Bootcamp courses for school kids and students. With this Clone Futura has added new feather to its cap, where it has gone a step further in its league by educating children at an early age on Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI). It is the first ever EdTech company to understand the fast paced changes happening in the world and the need to start early, hence they are the first to introduce an Artificial Intelligence bootcamps.

The course would take the students through various aspects of Data Analytics and AI like Python, building calculator and weather forecasting App etc.The total duration of the course would be for 16 hours spread across two- three weekends. Clone Futura has recently conducted workshop in a few leading schools across Mumbai and will soon go Pan India as other prominent top schools have shown keen interest to conduct these workshops in their schools and already signed up for the same. AI is now a part of our everyday life through smart phones, smart cars, social media feeds, drones, video games, navigation and travel and banking and finance to name a few, which makes learning it inevitable.

Nowadays the children are spending and wasting a lot of their time on screen hence this medium can be used effectively to teach them a skill which they enjoy learning. The idea is to prepare them for future job market and be future ready. World over the education sector employing AI is expected to grow by 47.5 per cent by 2021.Clone Futura, has an ambitious plans of taking these courses across India and happy to associate with any School, who would want their children to learn contemporary technology courses like Data Analytics and AI. Clone Futura is aiming for imparting these courses across India with an initial commitment of 500 schools and will expand further next year.

The company has witnessed tremendous response from parents, teachers and students over the last five years and is constantly looking to bring in more such innovative courses through professionals to help the students. Parents and teachers would be delighted to see their children come up with AI driven projects like weather forecasting tools, driver distraction detection and predictive tools etc.

Commenting on the development, Vidushi Daga, CEO- Clone Futura said, “We are delighted to introduce AI courses on our platform in collaboration with IITians. Who knows technology better than IITians in the country? Our thought of collaborating with IITians and launching these courses is to bring in awareness & learning about the advanced technologies like Data Analytics and AI to kids at an early age and make them compete globally.

Globally the children start learning coding at the average age of 6 years.These bootcamps offer your child, a chance of being mentored by the IITians for 3 months and also make them ready to show case their project made during the course in the upcoming IIT Techfest. These courses will allow them to become environmentally wiser and college Ready ahead of their friends & peers”

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Location: India, Maharashtra, Mumbai (Bombay)