Junior Make-A-Thon (JMT) 2025
India’s Biggest Makeathon
An Exciting & Innovative National Event by Shaastra
IIT Madras Team & Creyate for India Platform
Get your students ready for the ultimate innovation challenge—JMT 2025!
After multiple successful editions of many innovations, JMT is back, bigger than ever, and ready to get Young Indians to ideate, design, and prototype.
This Nationwide Makeathon is designed to push students from Grades 6-12 to think outside the box, solve real-world problems, and showcase their Maker capabilities on the grand stage @ IIT Madras Campus.
Why JMT 2025?
Because it’s more than just another competition—it’s a chance for students to collaborate and create, to design and deploy, and Make a real impact.
What Makes JMT a Unique Makeathon in India?
- Pan-India Glory : Schools from across the country participate, making this a truly national-level recognition for the finalists competing at IIT Madras Campus.
- Learning Guaranteed : Students to get to learn and demonstrate immersion and ideation before prototyping, ensuring learning is guaranteed for every participant
- No Registration Fee : This ultimate platform for students to test their ideas, to make and test, is FREE. No Registration Charges.
Timeline
October 5 - October 28
Registration : Students can register in teams of 3 students. The registration is completely free.
October 29 - November 11
Immersion: Registered teams will immerse themselves in the given problem statements. Teams committed to the problem statement and demonstrate outputs of immersion that will be evaluated for shortlisting to the next stage.
November 11 - November 25
Ideation: Students will ideate on the given problem statements and come up with design sketches of viable solutions.
January 3 - January 7
Finals: Teams selected for final on-site prototyping at IIT Madras campus will be itimated by Dec 13th, 2024. 3 Day on-site Make-a-thon finals will be between January 3rd - January 7th, 2025.
How the Makeathon Works
- Students can form groups of 3 and register their teams across two categories
- Grades 6 – 8 ( Juniors)
- Grades 9 – 12 (Seniors)
- A school can register as many teams as they want under each category
- Once the registration deadline is over, all teams will be informed of the challenges they have to work on. The challenge theme will be different for Juniors’ and Seniors’ Category
- The teams are given instructions on how they can demonstrate the immersion and ideation for the challenge statement. These will be submitted online
- Based on the artifacts submitted online by each team, the IIT Madras Shaastra Team shortlists the 12 finalist teams in each Juniors and Seniors Category who will be invited for the 3 Day Prototyping finals at IIT Madras Campus between January 03rd to January 07th.
This is an opportunity your school cannot miss!
Join the movement, inspire your students,
and take part in India’s largest student innovation event.
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