Pramaan
Pitch a product to a panel
Find a problem people would pay to solve, prototype the fix, price it, and pitch it to a panel of parents.
Agency
Agency: the habit of acting on what they see.
Leaders and entrepreneurs are not the people with the best ideas. They are the people who start. Pramaan gives children real decisions, real constraints and real teams, and lets them own what happens next.
- Children choose the problem and run the team
- Real budgets, real deadlines, real trade-offs
- Every project ends in a pitch and a decision
Why agency, and why now
The OECD, the body behind the PISA tests taken in over 80 countries, puts student agency at the centre of its Learning Compass 2030: the capacity to set a goal, reflect, and act to make change.
The market already pays for it. The Thiel Fellowship gives young people $100,000 to leave college and build something. Founders, product leaders and changemakers are hired for what they start, not for where they studied.
Most children spend their days following instructions. At Pramaan, they spend 90 minutes a week giving them, and living with the result.
How a lab grows agency
1
They choose the problem
Teams pick from a shortlist of real problems and argue for the one they want to take on.
2
They run the team
Roles rotate every week: leader, builder, skeptic, presenter. Every child leads before the cohort ends.
3
They work with real limits
A budget, a deadline and a box of materials. Trade-offs are theirs to make and defend.
4
They pitch and decide
Every build ends in front of a panel. They take the feedback and decide what to change, not us.
Projects that grow it
Every project is interdisciplinary: one real problem, several subjects, one thing built at the end.
Run a one-day venture
Start with a small budget, make something, sell it, then count the profit and the lessons.
Build a bridge that holds
Paper, tape and a target load. Teams test, break and redesign until it holds, then explain why it held.
What you will notice at home
A child who proposes before being asked, plans before starting, and talks about decisions as theirs. The Sunday note tells you what they led and what they chose.
We look for agency in what children start on their own and the choices they defend, and track motivation with the Intrinsic Motivation Inventory at the start, middle and end.