Project Based Learning from

Universities to Schools

Curious l Creative l Collaborative

Grades 6 to 12

Starting January 2022, Rhapsody will bring together the BEST KNOWN NAMES IN

HIGHER EDUCATION AND LEARNING, DIRECT TO SCHOOLS.

With curated projects in Creative Intelligence, students of selected schools get

to explore projects in diﬀerent ﬁelds – from Artiﬁcial Intelligence to Social Sciences,

Entrepreneurship to Design Thinking and many more.

These “Projects” will be done as short as 2-3 week engagements – like an internship –

but done in a group setting and specially designed given the academic time table.

Using these projects, a student from Class VIII upwards, typically – gets to explore

diﬀerent pathways and 21 century skills and courses.

These are projects with a hand-picked selection

of top Academics and Industry Leaders in the

World.

STEP

A lecture module will be given to students, done by the Institution or Academic,

that exposes students to the subject and area of study. Throughout the

project, Rhapsody’s Resource Team will help / guide / mentor students on

routine queries and doubts.

At the end of the group report submission, students get a CERTIFICATE OF

COMPLETION. This will be useful to the students for their higher studies given

the caliber and pedigree of Institutions and Academics involved.

The Top 10% of all projects will get a further special

commendation badge from the Institution / Academic

and a chance to present the project to key people

in the respective Institution.

What is a “Project”?

GOAL: Students will work in groups on a speciﬁc challenge, and submit a group

report or presentation (or video in some cases) through Rhapsody’s platform.

Why is This Essential?

What Does the School Do?

Project-Based Learning (PBL) Is now being introduced all over the world as a unique

way of exposing high schoolers to real-life challenges through case studies and working

in realistic settings as the best way to encourage Collaborative Learning, Creative

Intelligence and Higher Order Thinking Skills.

To expose high schoolers to higher education, and bridge the gap therein with G

real-world projects

To give students maximum reach in terms of areas of study, and an “Internship” G

experience while still in high school enabling real-world exposure

G Providing “Access to new and emergent ﬁelds”

G Developing “Creative Intelligence”

Select school partners will appoint a coordinator who

can then ensure that students from Class VIII upwards

A total of 10 projects have been planned.

Of these, we will roll out 3 projects for students

starting from January 25, 2022 and will go on until

February 25, 2022.

THE PROJECTS

About Dr. Vish Krishnan

Dr. Vish Krishnan is a Chaired Professor and the Faculty Director of Rady’s

Entrepreneurship Initiative, CIID. He also serves as the Associate Director for the

Institute for the Global Entrepreneur.

Professor Vish Krishnan received his doctoral degree from MIT and serves in

the editorial positions of elite academic journals. He has been named the

Most Valuable Professor by Rady Students 4 times during the last decade and

has been invited to teach at MIT and Harvard University.

Project on Innovation,

2 week duration,

group work

VIII, IX, XICreative

Stem

Science and

Technology

Dr. Vish Krishnan

Laboratory for Innovation

in Science at Harvard

About Dr. Jay Narayanan

Professor Jay Narayanan is the Academic Director of the MSc (Human Capital

Management and Analytics) and a Distinguished Associate Professor at the

National University of Singapore.

Project on Start-ups,

2 week duration,

group work

VIII, IX, XILeadershipEntrepreneurshipDr. Jay Narayanan

National University of

Singapore

Type of Project

Recommended

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Mapping

Area of StudyName of the Institution/Academician

Type of Project

Recommended

Classes

Mapping

Area of StudyName of the Institution/Academician

About Dr. Srivi Ramasubramanian

Dr. Srivi Ramasubramanian is a scholar, public speaker, diversity educator, and

thought leader on pressing contemporary global issues relating to media,

inclusion, and social justice. She is is the Newhouse Endowed Chair Professor

at Syracuse University

About Mr. Michael Pelletier

Mr. Michael Pelletier is a former US Ambassador and currently the Executive

Director of the Institute for Global Engagement at the University of Houston.

He is the recipient of thirteen senior State Department awards, including a

Presidential Meritorious Service Award and the Linguist of the Year.

Project on Public Policy,

1 week duration,

group work

VIII, IX, XILeadershipCommunications

& Public Policy

Dr. Srivi Ramasubramanian

Syracuse University

Project on Diplomacy,

2 week duration,

group work

VIII, IX, XILeadershipInternational

Relations

Mr. Michael Pelletier

University of Houston

About Dr. Gaurav Raina

Dr. Gaurav Raina holds a Ph.D in Mathematics (Srinivasa Ramanujan Scholar)

from Trinity College, University of Cambridge, UK. He is currently a part of the

faculty in Electrical Engineering at IIT Madras, and also a visiting research

fellow in Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. His research interests

span the design and control of large scale engineering systems like the

Internet and intelligent transportation systems.

About Dr. Ashwin Mahalingam

Dr. Ashwin Mahalingam is an Associate Professor at the Building, Technology

and Construction Management division of the Civil Engineering Department

at IIT-Madras. Dr. Mahalingam’s current research interests include Public

Private Partnerships in Infrastructure, Megaproject governance and

management, IT based Innovation in the architecture, engineering, and

construction industry, and ways in which organisations react to the

globalization of engineering services.

Project on AI,

2 week duration,

group work

VIII, IX, XIStemData Science &

Dr. Gaurav Raina

IIT Madras

Project on Civil Engg,

2 week duration,

group work

VIII, IX, XIStemCivil EngineeringDr. Ashwin Mahalingam

IIT Madras

Type of Project

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Area of StudyName of the Institution/Academician

About Dr. Prithvi Datta Chandra Shobhi

Dr. Prithvi Datta Chandra Shobhi is a social historian and political commentator.

He teaches History and Humanities at Krea University. Prithvi studied history

and literature at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and at the University

of Chicago, from where he obtained a PhD.

Project on History,

2 week duration,

group work

VIII, IX, XISocial

Science

History and

Social Science

Dr. Prithvi Datta

Krea University

Type of Project

Recommended

Classes

Mapping

Area of StudyName of the Institution/Academician

About Dr. Sunder Ramaswamy

Dr. Sunder Ramaswamy is an international development economist, an

educator, and a higher education administrator with extensive experience

in the U.S and India. Dr. Sunder Ramaswamy is currently a Distinguished

College Professor of International Economics at Middlebury College, Vermont.

Project on Economics,

2 week duration,

group work

upwards

Social

Science

EconomicsDr, Sunder Ramaswamy

Middlebury College, USA

About Intellect Design Arena

Intellect Design Arena, is a Polaris Group company, a global leader in Financial

Technology for Banking, Insurance and other Financial Services. A uniquely

focused Products business, Intellect addresses the needs of ﬁnancial

institutions in varying stages of technology adoption.

Project on Design

Thinking, 3 week

duration, group work

VIII, IX, XIStemDesign ThinkingIntellect Design Arena

Type of Project

Recommended

Classes

Mapping

Area of StudyName of the Institution/Academician

About HCL Technologies

HCL Technologies is an Indian multinational Information Technology (IT) Services

and consulting company which operates across sectors including aerospace

and defense, automotive, banking, capital markets, chemical and process

industries, energy and utilities, healthcare, hi-tech, industrial manufacturing,

consumer goods, insurance, life sciences, to name a few.

Project on App Building,

3 week duration,

group work

VIII, IX, XIStem

Technlogy

HCL Technologies

The idea that Education needs be approached in alternative ways, and bringing in Music and

Visual Art to approach other subject disciplines (interdisciplinary learning) has been met with

a lot of positivity and the mission has grown considerably.

Creative Intelligence

Delivered

About

Set up by musician Anil Srinivasan, the mission has

grown to embrace 100+ private schools and 300+

government-run schools (thereby spreading the idea of

Arts-Integration across demographics).

Learning from the pandemic, Rhapsody has innovated

again and created Cocoon – a proprietary platform for Art

Integrated Learning. The platform became functional on

June 23, 2021 and has already seen over 14,000 students

use it for their Rhapsody lessons as part of in-school

timetables.

Rhapsody has been at the forefront of Creative Intelligence

among schools for the past 8 years, largely specializing in

STEAM (STEM with Art Integration) for classes 8-12.

Awards & Recognitions

Global

Gold Award

in Arts & Humanities

in K-12 Education

Gold Award

Asia Region

The proud winner of

THE WHARTON - UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

QS REIMAGINE EDUCATION

Creative Intelligence: The Mission

Creative

Intelligence

Artistic

Creativity

Cognitive

Creativity

Collaborative

Creativity

Design &

Innovation

Creative Intelligence is now becoming one of the most prized skills for education worldwide.

Thinking innovatively, solving problems collaboratively and in teams, and taking the best of

Arts and Design have all now been oﬃcially recognized as the future of education.

Whether it is understanding both the story and practice of music, or understanding the Data

Sciences in very innovative ways; Design Thinking with group and collaborative projects or

even studying STEM but through creative ways – the future of education lies at combining

Arts and Sciences, Individual Work and Group Thinking, Passion and Practice.

While Rhapsody has focused on Art Integration and Artistic Creativity in its mission so far, the

need for Cognitive Creativity (or Creativity applied to scientiﬁc and logical disciplines),

Collaborative Creativity (Peer-Peer Project-Based Learning), Design and Innovation including

applications of Creativity in Technology are the ways forward.

This in itself is based on extensive research and study into the National Education

Policy (2020) and its objectives, and the goal of bringing children from across India’s

varied demographics towards their optimal potential.

Creative

Intelligence

Visual &

Performing

Arts

Project

based

Learning

STEM

Numeracy

Language

Literacy

Design

Thinking

ech /

in Creativity

ART Integrated

Learning

In addition to exposure to the top names and their lectures and projects listed, the

school will receive

What does the School receive ?

There is NO FEE for these projects during the Jan – February 2022

phase. The schools we are choosing to work with are by invitation only.

All students of the chosen classes are eligible to participate. The only

requirement from the school is to appoint a Project Coordinator, who

we will guide and mentor through the process.

FEE

G A commemorative plaque that speciﬁes PIONEER status in Project Based Learning

through Rhapsody PLUS

G Preferential right to participate in the national-level project challenges to be rolled

out in April from more International Universities and Institutions2022

G A chance to showcase the best projects at a global level

Internationally acclaimed classical pianist and

academician, Anil Srinivasan is one of the leading voices

today in education. As an ideologue, he is a regular

keynote speaker across India and abroad.

After touring across the world for almost two decades

and having earned accolades and critical acclaim

aplenty, Anil Srinivasan set up Rhapsody 8 years ago,

with a singular intent of Art Integration in learning with

children in schools through a structured syllabi that is

both physical classroom learning as well as online

support. His unrelenting passion and dogged

determination to translate this dream into a reality that

truly impacts children, many from under-privileged

sections of society, has reached out to nearly 4 lakh

children from across India.

An academic, researcher, scholar and writer, Anil

Srinivasan wears his many hats with ease and conviction.

If music is the food for his soul, philanthropy is his

conscience keeper. Along with an active career in music

- he serves as a Director of The Peninsula Studios in

Delhi, that helps to record and archive independent

music - he also uses his instrument - piano - and his voice

- of music with a message - to signiﬁcantly impact the

less privileged in our society. As a patron of

Gnanadarshan, a home for visually challenged women

in Chennai, in 2019, Srinivasan performed a series of

concerts, blindfolded and helped raise over Rs. 27

lakhs for the trust.

With an M Phil from Columbia University, Anil is the

recipient of the Kalaimamani, the highest award for the

Arts in Tamil Nadu, The Sangeet Natak Akademi award

for Creative and Experimental Music, the Educator

Extraordinaire from The Rotary Foundation and several

other awards.

Academically, Anil Srinivasan is a Vidya Mandir (Chennai)

alumnus. He is a Gold medalist in Economics from the

University of Madras, a Gold medalist from Mudra

Institute of Communications (Ahmedabad), a Beta

Gamma Sigma (Highest Academic Honors) from the

University of Southern California for his MBA and a

Columbia University Fellowship holder for his

doctoral studies.

When Srinivasan is not teaching collaborative creativity,

design thinking to his students at Krea University, or

writing thought-provoking pieces on music and

education for leading publications in India - The Hindu,

New Indian Express and Scroll just to name a few - he is

mentoring his team at Rhapsody that comprises of

teachers from across corners of south India, to

understand sharper and more seamless ways of

imparting Creative Intelligence to children.

During the 2015 ﬂoods, he initiated a campaign and

helmed a committed group of volunteers that raised over

$ 250,000 that went into building a school for displaced

children in Chennai. More recently, during the COVID-19

pandemic, his initiative, Play it Forward that brought

together musicians to perform and share their music on

the online platform, helped raise signiﬁcant funds for

daily wage workers.

Anil Srinivasan is also the Brand Ambassador for CASIO

India, a leading manufacturer of the Keyboard

instrument and is also the Co-Founder of The Peninsular

Studios where he also designed the idea of Live @

The Peninsula Studios and Maestros, as a producer.

Anil Srinivasan

M Phil. Columbia University

Founder & CEO

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