Dream
Big
Start Small, Rise High
Start Small, Rise High
Start Small,
Rise High
To enable grassroots problem-solving, foster student innovation, and promote community participation through sustainable and scalable interventions, empowering the youth for impact at a global scale.
To enable grassroots problem-solving, foster student innovation, and promote community participation through sustainable and scalable interventions, empowering the youth for impact at a global scale.
What we do
Mindset of a Maker
Encourages a maker mindset among students. Transforms passive learners into active creators. Connects learning to community and sustainability.
Mindset of a Maker
Encourages a maker mindset among students. Transforms passive learners into active creators. Connects learning to community and sustainability.
Mindset of a Maker
Encourages a maker mindset among students. Transforms passive learners into active creators. Connects learning to community and sustainability.
Institutional Innovation Programs
Comprehensive end to end ecosystem that combine strategy, implementation and coaching to learning to solve for opportunities via experimentation.
Institutional Innovation Programs
Comprehensive end to end ecosystem that combine strategy, implementation and coaching to learning to solve for opportunities via experimentation.
Innovation Centres & Maker Labs
Get access to physical tools used for the hands-on creation and assembly of models and prototypes.
Innovation Centres & Maker Labs
Get access to physical tools used for the hands-on creation and assembly of models and prototypes.
Fellowship Programs
Prototyping, Mentorship & Training at T-Works, India’s largest prototyping center to master design & engineering, then deploy to rural schools for 3 months to ignite the next generation of innovators and entrepreneurs.
Fellowship Programs
Prototyping, Mentorship & Training at T-Works, India’s largest prototyping center to master design & engineering, then deploy to rural schools for 3 months to ignite the next generation of innovators and entrepreneurs.
Community & Entrepreneur Programs
Run programs that strengthen wellbeing and economic resilience by supporting individuals to improve quality of life with dignity.
Community & Entrepreneur Programs
Run programs that strengthen wellbeing and economic resilience by supporting individuals to improve quality of life with dignity.
Media
We don’t teach theory alone.
We help students observe, question, and build solutions that matter to their communities.
We don’t teach theory alone. We help students observe, question, and build solutions that matter to their communities.
Small Impact Big Wins
Small Impact
Big Wins
students engaged through ongoing programs ( In 9 Months )
students engaged through ongoing programs ( In 9 Months )
real-life problems identified by students
real-life problems identified by students
working low-fidelity solutions built
working low-fidelity solutions built
teachers engaged across institutions
teachers engaged across institutions
Structured Learning Sessions
Structured Learning Sessions
Hours Training
Hours Training
Hear from our students
Hear from our
students
Shajaha
Class: 9th / School: TGMRIES JC GIRLS PEDDAPALLI
I never thought about how machines changed our lives until today. I understood why innovation is so important.
Shajaha
Class: 9th / School: TGMRIES JC GIRLS PEDDAPALLI
I never thought about how machines changed our lives until today. I understood why innovation is so important.
Shajaha
Class: 9th / School: TGMRIES JC GIRLS PEDDAPALLI
I never thought about how machines changed our lives until today. I understood why innovation is so important.
P Vyshali
Class: 9th / School: KGBV MUTHARAM
The Mystery Object activity made me think differently. I saw how one small thing can have many uses.
P Vyshali
Class: 9th / School: KGBV MUTHARAM
The Mystery Object activity made me think differently. I saw how one small thing can have many uses.
P Vyshali
Class: 9th / School: KGBV MUTHARAM
The Mystery Object activity made me think differently. I saw how one small thing can have many uses.
Sowmya sree
Class: 9 / School: ZPHS B Peddapalli
I learned that empathy is not just about feeling sorry for others but truly listening to their stories. During our role-play interviews, I noticed how people’s emotions reveal hidden challenges. It taught me to be a better listener and observer.
Sowmya sree
Class: 9 / School: ZPHS B Peddapalli
I learned that empathy is not just about feeling sorry for others but truly listening to their stories. During our role-play interviews, I noticed how people’s emotions reveal hidden challenges. It taught me to be a better listener and observer.
Sowmya sree
Class: 9 / School: ZPHS B Peddapalli
I learned that empathy is not just about feeling sorry for others but truly listening to their stories. During our role-play interviews, I noticed how people’s emotions reveal hidden challenges. It taught me to be a better listener and observer.
Sankirthana
Class: 9 / School: ZPHS GOdavarikhani
During our mini interviews, I learned how to ask open questions that make people share their real feelings. It was surprising how much we could learn just by listening carefully and noticing expressions.
Sankirthana
Class: 9 / School: ZPHS GOdavarikhani
During our mini interviews, I learned how to ask open questions that make people share their real feelings. It was surprising how much we could learn just by listening carefully and noticing expressions.
Sankirthana
Class: 9 / School: ZPHS GOdavarikhani
During our mini interviews, I learned how to ask open questions that make people share their real feelings. It was surprising how much we could learn just by listening carefully and noticing expressions.
CEO's Message
Empowering youth for Global change
Dear friends,
The Dream. Start. Rise. Innovation Network is T-Works Foundation's initiative to decentralise access to innovation and unlock grassroots talent across rural India. Our first centre, launched in Manthani on 26 May 2025, brings advanced prototyping, hands-on learning, and real problem-solving beyond urban hubs.
Through the Mindset of a Maker course, mentorship, and prototyping infrastructure, we empower India's youth to become product builders, problem solvers, and entrepreneurs turning local challenges into real-world solutions. Our goal: an inclusive, future-ready ecosystem where ideas from anywhere generate impact everywhere.
We are building an ecosystem where learning drives action. With structured sessions, industry exposure, and solution development, we empower students
and educators to create meaningful impact.
We are building an ecosystem where learning drives action. With structured sessions, industry exposure, and solution development, we empower students and educators to create meaningful impact.
CEO T-WORKS
Joginder Tanikella
Collaborate with us
CSR Partnership
CSR Partnership
Adopt a cause, district or school
Create measurable impact with scalable youth programs and felllowships.
Create future-ready Impact Makers through grassroots innovation programs.
Adopt a cause, district or school
Create measurable impact with scalable youth programs and felllowships.
Create future-ready Impact Makers through grassroots innovation programs.
For Policymakers
& Leaders
For Policymakers & Leaders
Adopt and fund a center in your district
Create long-term grassroots impact.
Position your district as a beacon of youth-led progress.
Adopt and fund a center in your district
Create long-term grassroots impact.
Position your district as a beacon of youth-led progress.
For Students
& Youth
For Students
& Youth
Access to innovation center.
Learn to code, build, prototype, and launch ideas.
Join a tribe of dreamers who start small and rise together.
Access to innovation center.
Learn to code, build, prototype, and launch ideas.
Join a tribe of dreamers who start small and rise together.
Send a message
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