Avanti is an award winning non-profit organization established by IIT alumni in 2010 to provide an affordable, high-quality education to disadvantaged students aspiring to study at India’s top colleges. At present, Avanti has over 100 full-time employees and supports over 2400 students in 16 locations across 2 government school systems spread over 5 states – Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas and Haryana Government Schools. We believe that any investment in a child's education has a ripple effect, helping families, communities & reshaping economies for entire regions.. At Avanti, we implement a unique pedagogy called Peer Instruction®that reduces teacher dependence and enables collaborative learning. Students consume lecture content in the form of recorded videos and reading material before attending class. In place of conventional lectures, classroom time is used to get students to work collaboratively on problem sets and clarify doubts by interacting with subject experts. Over the past 2 years, we have shown that our students outperform the most expensive after-school programs in the country at less than one-fourth the cost. Avanti is a PanIIT Alumni initiative, winner of Stanford BASES 2010 and recipient of the Echoing Green, Ashoka and Draper Richards Kaplan Fellowships. Our academic board is chaired by Prof. Eric Mazur, Dean of Applied Physics at Harvard. Vision: To create a world where all students have access to high quality math and science education Mission: To give high school students in government schools the curriculum, training and environment they need to learn math and science collaboratively and effectively