GEMS Arab Innovation Centre for Education Announced Third Edition of the AICE Accelerator Programme
The Third Edition of The AICE Accelerator Programme, organised by GEMS Education, culminated in the Trial Day on Monday, April 30, where 50 young inventors and entrepreneurs across 20 teams pitched their ideas and business plans to a panel of courts consisting of leading investors and entrepreneurs.
The Programme provides the shortlisted teams with mentorship, training, seed funding and link with sectors over two months to develop their product right into an impact-driven and revenue-generating business. The shortlisted groups are examined on innovation, worth suggestion, market need, scalability and business model.
The young startups consisted of concepts from mobile farming, tailgating detection and notice, augmented reality (AR) applications for education and more from Cambridge International School Dubai, GEMS Founders School, GEMS Millennium School Sharjah, GEMS Modern Academy, GEMS Winchester School Abu Dhabi, GEMS Winchester School Jebel Ali and Our Own English High School Sharjah Boys.
Karan Deep, Innovation Manager for the Innovation, R & D, GEMS Education, said: "The AICE Accelerator Program is a great holistic opportunity and atmosphere for GEMS trainees to be in. It uses the best mix of trouble fixing, important reasoning and entrepreneurial enthusiasm."
The teams shortlisted for the GEMS-Singularity University Global Innovation Challenge, where they send their remedies to the world's most important challenges, were additionally sworn in right into the Accelerator Program and pitched at the very same event.
The winning team receives AED 10,000 and each team will certainly get 12 months of ongoing mentoring and assistance from GEMS Education to further establish their product and bring it right into the market. The victors will be introduced at the GEMS Innovation Honors on May 8 at GEMS Wellington Academy, Al Khail.
