For students across schools in Chennai, Tiruvallur, and Krishnagiri, technologies like AI, IoT and Robotics weren’t just out of reach—they were unfamiliar. Today, they’re part of their learning.

Through ILP’s partnership with Namma School Foundation and the Department of Education, Government of Tamil Nadu, the TN SPARK program is helping children see how the tools shaping the world actually work.

TN SPARK brings AI, robotics, coding, IoT, and digital tools into government school classrooms for students in Grades 6 to 9. Not as distant concepts, but as activities they can touch, try, question, and understand. For many children, this is their first experience building something with their own hands that responds, moves, or thinks through simple logic. The Government of Tamil Nadu has equipped these schools with Computer Labs, and ILP helps bring them to life—ensuring the infrastructure translates into real, hands-on learning for students.

With support from the Guru Krupa Foundation and our NGO partners IRCDS and ARCOD, the program now reaches 340 schools, benefiting 67,000 students, and is powered by 46 trained facilitators who work directly with the children and teachers. Their day-to-day interactions—explaining a basic circuit, helping debug code, or reassuring someone who feels unsure—that truly shape the experience.

The goal is clear: to make sure children in government schools have the same chance to understand the world’s changing technologies as anyone else.