Model NITI Aayog
Investigate a public policy question and defend it in a white paper.
₹17,700. Includes a year of Learnacy Essential.
Upcoming programmeStarts in 10 days
Entrepreneurship in Action
An academy for one-person businesses: build a working product with AI. No prior coding needed.
- 21-24 NovEvening batch
- Online4pm to 8pm IST
- Grades 8 to 1216 hours over 4 days
- ₹17,700Includes a year of Learnacy Essential
Next batch: 7-10 Jan 2027, Morning, 10am to 2pm IST
Entrepreneurship in Action
Four days.One working product.
Every participant builds and ships a working product and a founder’s pitch.
Build with AI, vibe coding
Turn an idea into a working product by directing AI in plain language. No prior coding needed.
Ship it live
Deploy a live product on the internet that people can actually use.
Think like a founder
Validate a problem people have, model the value, and pitch what you built.
Run a one-person business
The agency to build, launch and run a venture solo, with AI as your team.
The four sessions
- Session 1Idea & problemFind a problem worth solving. Scope a product you can actually build.
- Session 2Build with AIVibe-coding fundamentals. Directing AI to build features.
- Session 3Ship itDeploy a live product. Test with real users.
- Session 4Pitch & growFounder economics. The Shark-Tank pitch.
What the student leaves with
- A deployed product you built
- Working fluency with AI building tools
- Founder skills: problem, product, pitch
- The agency to run a one-person business
Book 21-24 Nov
Online · 4pm to 8pm IST · ₹17,700. Next batch: 7-10 Jan 2027, Morning, 10am to 2pm IST.
Small groups, real work.
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A circle on the floor, mid-discussion. Pune, June 2025 -
Mid-game, on the floor of the hall. Pune, June 2025 -
A team at work on the floor, laptop open. March 2026
More live programmes
The next dates.
One Young India also runs live programmes, online and on campus. Each includes a year of Learnacy Essential.
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Model G20 Summit
Represent a delegation and work towards a joint communiqué on global issues.
- 18-20 Jun 2027 Residential, 3 days
On campus, Pune Book
₹17,700, including taxes, food and lodging. Includes a year of Learnacy Essential.
- 18-20 Jun 2027 Residential, 3 days
Times in IST. All programmes
Model G20 Summit and Model NITI Aayog are independent educational programmes and are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or associated with the G20, NITI Aayog, or any government body.
Their own white paper. Published if it earns it.
Learnacy, from One Young India
From a question to a published paper.
Learnacy is the capacity to keep learning after anyone stops grading you. In Learnacy Essential, a student follows their own question, tests it in labs and writes a white paper, with feedback from an AI writing coach. Their best paper can be submitted to The OYI Review.
Publication depends on review and is not guaranteed.
Buy for a student · ₹1,499
For the year, one payment, including GST
Create a free account for the student
- For the year, one payment, including GST
- No automatic renewal
- They sign in with their own email
The OYI ReviewOne Young India Press
Sample paper
Forty Against Five
India’s Air Standard, the WHO Guideline and What a City’s Own Air Data Can Show
Your name, Your school
Executive Summary
India’s national standard caps the yearly average of fine particles (PM2.5) at 40 micrograms per cubic metre; the WHO’s 2021 guideline is 5. Using one city’s public air quality data, this paper asks what closing that gap would take.
- Author
- Your name, Your school
- Made by
- One Young India, to show the format
The idea
Students do not hate learning.They hate being taught toward a test they do not care about.
Give them a question they care about, and they lean in and ask the next one before the answer is finished. Learnacy takes its name from the old root of “scholar”: learning a person does by choice.
The method, in four steps
- Ask
- Find out
- Make the argument
- Put it to the test
The idea comes from our founder Swagat Yadav’s book, Learnacy: Reflections on Lifelong Learning.
Accepted on merit. Never on payment.
Every paper is scored against a rubric anyone can read.
Learnacy Essential pays for the tools, the courses and the feedback. It never buys acceptance.
Reviewed by The OYI Review. Published by One Young India Press.
The review rubric
A paper can be accepted when it averages at least 4 out of 5 with no criterion below 3, and passes the editorial checks; otherwise it comes back with changes to make, or it is not accepted this time.
A score here holds the paper back, whatever the average.
| Criterion | 1Beginning | 2Developing | 3Competent | 4Strong | 5Excellent |
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| Thesis & argumentIs there a clear, specific central argument, and does everything in the paper serve it? | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Evidence & rigourAre claims backed by credible, well-used evidence? Is the reasoning sound, with no unsupported leaps? | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Structure & flowLogical progression, clear sections, easy for a reader to follow start to finish? | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Independent thoughtDoes the reasoning contribute a considered perspective? This criterion does not establish authorship or certify originality. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Policy relevanceAre the recommendations concrete, actionable and realistic in the real world, not vague or utopian? | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Writing & clarityPrecise, readable prose; correct grammar; a tone appropriate for a serious policy paper? | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Average across the six | Average of 4 or more | ||||
The OYI Review
Published papers
- TechnologyThe Future of Cybersecurity: Is Artificial Intelligence a Friend or Foe?
- EnergyIndia’s Energy Outlook: Balancing Sustainable Development and Managing Carbon Footprint
- EducationGurukuls to Schools: An insight into the past, present, and future of the Indian education system
Accepted papers get a public page, a citation, a PDF and a certificate they can add to LinkedIn. Publication depends on review and is not guaranteed.
Browse The OYI ReviewHow the year works.
It is self-paced. A student can work in short sessions through the year; a white paper usually takes several sittings of writing and revising.
Explore.
The real map: 365+ subjects and thousands of non-obvious threads. Tap a field, open a subject and follow where it leads.
Free: the map. With the Learnacy Essential plan (₹1,499 for the year): the member tools.
World 101, the map of fields and subjects.Learnacy, October 2026
Experiment.
Learnacy LabsBeta
Put a living cell in a bath and change the bath. Watch water cross the membrane until the cell swells or shrinks.
With a free account: every lab in 2D. With the Learnacy Essential plan (₹1,499 for the year): the 3D labs.
A disaster-response board game, in play.Summer Symposium 2025, Pune, June 2025
Argue.
From the family remote to the UN, understand the ideas that move nations.
27 chapters, about 12 hours. One of ten self-paced courses in Learnacy Essential, each with a completion certificate.
A word to argue about, written large.Summer Symposium 2024, June 2024
Write.
The student drafts in the Writing Studio and gets feedback on their drafts.
Free: start and save up to five drafts. With the Learnacy Essential plan (₹1,499 for the year): AI feedback on their drafts and submission to The OYI Review.
The Writing Studio, and the first page a draft becomes.A sample, made by One Young India, to show the format
- Made by
- One Young India, to show the format
Publish,if it earns it.
When the paper is ready, they submit it to The OYI Review. Publication depends on review and is not guaranteed.
The life of a digital device, laid out card by card.Summer Symposium 2025, Pune, June 2025
₹1,499 for the year.
One payment, including GST. No automatic renewal.
If the student joins a live programme during their year, ₹1,499 comes off its fee when you book it signed in, with the student’s email.
The year includes
- The Writing Studio. Feedback from an AI writing coach on drafts, and submission to The OYI Review. Included
- Editorial review. Learnacy Essential includes editorial review, and publication of one paper in the year if it is accepted. Publication is not guaranteed. Included
- Self-paced courses. 10 self-paced courses: Everyday Economics, Math Magicians, Managing Media and 7 more, each with a completion certificate. Included
- World 101’s member tools: key people, timelines, debates and data. Included
- Learnacy Labs in 3D (Beta): Physics, Chemistry, Geography and Biology today, with more as they are built. Included
For the year, one payment, including GST₹1,499
Will the paper be published?
Only if it passes review. Every paper is reviewed against the same rubric, and some are sent back with changes to make. That is what makes an accepted paper mean something. Learnacy Essential pays for the tools, the courses and the feedback. It never buys acceptance. Publication depends on review and is not guaranteed. How review works.
What happens when the year ends?
Everything the student wrote stays saved in their account, and they can keep editing it. A free account keeps up to five drafts, so a new draft past that means deleting an old one first. Feedback from the AI writing coach and submitting a paper need an active Learnacy Essential.
Who is it for?
Students in Grades 8 to 12 who ask “why”, like to read and argue, and want to do serious work before university. They can write in 15 formats, from white papers to essays.
Enter the student’s email at checkout and they sign in with it. Learnacy Essential is non-refundable once activated, except where a refund is required by law. Read the refund and cancellation policy.
Start free.
With a free Learnacy account, the student can start, save and keep up to five drafts in every format in the Writing Studio, explore World 101’s map and open the 2D version of every lab. AI feedback and submitting a paper need Learnacy Essential.
Learnacy, at every depth
One idea, four depths.
Start free, take the year with Learnacy Essential, learn live with a cohort, or apply for 18 weeks with a mentor.
Learnacy Mentorship · January 2027 intake
Go further, with a mentor.
In the Learnacy Mentorship, a student works for 18 weeks in a small group and one to one, and finishes one substantial piece of their own work, with publication as the aim. Publication depends on review and is not guaranteed.
- Grades 8, 9 and 11
- Monday 18 January to Sunday 23 May 2027
- Online, at fixed IST times
Places are by selection: the student writes a short task, then we talk with the student and a parent. Applications are open now and are read as they arrive.
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Live programmes
Live with a cohort, online or on campus. Each includes a year of Learnacy Essential.
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Learnacy Essential
₹1,499 for the year. The year, on their own, at their own pace.
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Free
A free Learnacy account to start, with no payment.
Students, on film.
Students who took part in a live programme talk about what they made and learned.
Students at a One Young India workshop
From a workshop with Model NITI Aayog and Learnacy: students on what they took from it.
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“You didn’t just tell us about that, but you actually made us experience that ourselves by constantly asking questions throughout.”
A student at the workshop 0:47
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“The biggest eye opener, it’s the idea that there’s so many connections that I can make with my knowledge that I am not making right now.”
A student at the workshop 3:29
Learnacy at a partner school
In person, at a school in the Learnacy Schools network, in Gurugram.
Learnacy is made by One Young India.
Since 2019, One Young India has brought subjects together for students through live programmes, mentorship and learning resources.
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Live programmes
Model NITI Aayog, Entrepreneurship in Action and the Model G20 Summit, live online and on campus.
- Knowledge partner
- Model G20 programme partner
- Knowledge partner
Before you decide.
Anything else? Write to info@oneyoungindia.com.
- Entrepreneurship in Action: does the student need to know how to code?
- No. This is “vibe coding”: students direct AI in plain language to build a working product. The skill they gain is agency, not syntax.
- Entrepreneurship in Action: what will the student build?
- A live, working product deployed on the internet, plus a founder’s pitch for it. Work they built themselves and can show.
- How does buying for a student work?
- Choose Buy for a student and enter the student’s email. To pay, you log in, or create your own free account with a 6-digit code we email you. Then we email the student, and they log in or create an account with that email. The year starts on the day of payment.
- How can we pay?
- Online, by UPI, card or netbanking, in one payment that includes GST. Inside Instagram or Facebook, if your UPI app does not open, open the page in your browser and pay there.
- Does it include Learnacy Labs?
- Learnacy Labs needs a free Learnacy account. The 2D version of every lab is available to every signed-in member, and the 3D labs come with Learnacy Essential. Learnacy Labs is in beta and may change.
- Are live programmes included?
- No, they are separate. Each of our live programmes (Model NITI Aayog, Entrepreneurship in Action, Model G20 Summit) includes a year of Learnacy Essential. Model NITI Aayog also includes its self-paced course.
- What is the Learnacy Mentorship?
- 18 weeks online with a mentor, in a small group and one to one, on a question the student chooses. Places are by selection, and it includes a year of Learnacy Essential. See the Learnacy Mentorship.
- Are you a teacher?
- Write to info@oneyoungindia.com to bring Learnacy to your school. See the Learnacy Schools network.
- What is The OYI Review?
- Our own reviewed publication for students’ papers. Accepted papers get a public page, a citation, a PDF and a certificate; the rest come back with changes to make, or are not accepted this time. Publication depends on review and is not guaranteed. How review works.
Where to start
Three ways in.
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Upcoming programme · Starts in 10 days
Entrepreneurship in Action
21-24 Nov · Online · 4pm to 8pm IST · ₹17,700
Book 21-24 Nov -
Learnacy Mentorship · January 2027 intake
Learnacy Mentorship
18 weeks with a mentor, on a question the student chooses. Places are by selection.
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Learnacy, from One Young India
Learnacy Essential
₹1,499 for the year. The year, on their own, at their own pace.
Buy for a student · ₹1,499