Jagdish Repaswal

Jagdish Repaswal

New York, New York, United States
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Started two companies as Founder and CEO/CTO and worked in leadership position in…

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Volunteer Experience

  • Navjyoti India Foundation Graphic

    Storyteller and volunteer

    Navjyoti India Foundation

    - Present 8 years 4 months

    Children

    I read books and stories to children at Navjyoti foundation, as well as play games and interact with them. The foundation enables children to continue to stay in school. My responsibilities include storytelling, organising events and planning for library and reading sessions.

  • Code.org Graphic

    Coding Mentor, School Coding camps organizer

    Code.org

    - Present 12 years 6 months

    Science and Technology

    I run coding bootcamps at schools and organizations, as well as run code.org mentorship sessions during Hour of Code bootcamps. Plan, organize and assist schools, teachers and staff in successfully introducing computer science to students, running coding sessions and bootcamp, as well as introduction to programming, career opportunities and importance of STEM in schools.

Courses

  • Building Scalable Organizations for future, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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  • Internet Law Program, Berkman Center, Harvard Law School

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Projects

  • Genius Hunt

    Genius Hunt: Discover cool new people every day. Not just talk about the products, let's meet the genius behind the product.
    -- Discover people who are doing awesome stuff
    -- Connect with them and recommend their work.
    -- Recommend people you look up to.
    -- Read and Share Genius stories, and upvotes

    I led the mobile design, worked closely with the develop, and completed the demo in one day.

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  • MangoReader

    - Present

    With MangoReader - the vision is to bring books to life by making them interactive, engaging and fun, using videos, quizzes, games, animation, audios, collaboration, sharing, discussions and providing a better learning experience. We want to build an ecosystem where publishers, authors, educators, instructors and content curators can come together and build better content collaboratively focusing on their strengths. This provides better value proposition for students as they get better…

    With MangoReader - the vision is to bring books to life by making them interactive, engaging and fun, using videos, quizzes, games, animation, audios, collaboration, sharing, discussions and providing a better learning experience. We want to build an ecosystem where publishers, authors, educators, instructors and content curators can come together and build better content collaboratively focusing on their strengths. This provides better value proposition for students as they get better learning material and through the platform, can now engage with content, discuss and collaborate with each other and experience the real world learning through an online platform. The adaptive and gamified platform motivates them and caters to their individual needs, making learning and better education accessible and available to masses and remote students with significantly lower costs.

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Honors & Awards

  • NASSCOM Social Innovation Honors award in ICT for education

    NASSCOM

    ICT Innovation:
    The team has built a platform to express and share knowledge, collaborate on creating and distributing interactive content and use existing and new content from various sources for curation to better organize and develop it. This is a cloud based offering, it can be accessed anytime, anywhere. HTML5 has been used to ensure that the content and platform works across devices. The content can be distributed offline enabling remote learning and students can access content from…

    ICT Innovation:
    The team has built a platform to express and share knowledge, collaborate on creating and distributing interactive content and use existing and new content from various sources for curation to better organize and develop it. This is a cloud based offering, it can be accessed anytime, anywhere. HTML5 has been used to ensure that the content and platform works across devices. The content can be distributed offline enabling remote learning and students can access content from home or mobiles giving them access to learning all the time.

  • Intel App4India winner - Best app in education

    Intel and YourStory

    MangoReader wins the Overall Best App in Intel App4India contest run over a period of 6 months organized by YourStory, Intel and other Partners.

    Mangoreader: A Pune based startup MangoReader is on a mission to make books interactive, engaging and fun. MangoReader has an ambition to not only redefine books and publishing, but reinventing the way people learn. MangoReader makes reading books interactive and fun because they use videos, animation, quizzes, maps, graphics and interactivity…

    MangoReader wins the Overall Best App in Intel App4India contest run over a period of 6 months organized by YourStory, Intel and other Partners.

    Mangoreader: A Pune based startup MangoReader is on a mission to make books interactive, engaging and fun. MangoReader has an ambition to not only redefine books and publishing, but reinventing the way people learn. MangoReader makes reading books interactive and fun because they use videos, animation, quizzes, maps, graphics and interactivity, thus making the experience engaging. Publishers, Authors and Educators can reach new audiences using mobiles, tablets and online reader and generate more revenue. Readers get better books and a great learning experience and can collaborate with friends, take notes and use learning tools such as dictionary, search and quizzes. Their vision is to reinvent the way people learn.

  • TechSparks top 15 product Startups in India

    YourStory and TechSparks

    TechSparks, the flagship event of Yourstory.in, the biggest tech product startup showcase in India, is now in its 3rd edition. The Grand Finale of TechSparks 2012 was held in Bangalore on September 8th, after the 5 roundtables which were conducted in Mumbai, Delhi, Ahmedabad, Chennai and Hyderabad over a period of 4 months. Techsparks 2012 was presented by Intel in association with Amazon Web Services, Qualcomm, Sequoia Capital, CNBC TV 18 Young Turks and VentureBeat.

    MangoReader…

    TechSparks, the flagship event of Yourstory.in, the biggest tech product startup showcase in India, is now in its 3rd edition. The Grand Finale of TechSparks 2012 was held in Bangalore on September 8th, after the 5 roundtables which were conducted in Mumbai, Delhi, Ahmedabad, Chennai and Hyderabad over a period of 4 months. Techsparks 2012 was presented by Intel in association with Amazon Web Services, Qualcomm, Sequoia Capital, CNBC TV 18 Young Turks and VentureBeat.

    MangoReader selected as the top 15 product startups from over 800 startups.

  • Best Education Startup by EduStars - 2012

    YourStory and Accel Partners

    EduStars, an initiative by YourStory.in in association with Accel Partners was started to discover and celebrate early stage entrepreneurs in the education sector from across the country. The main aim of the EduStars program is to recognize, facilitate and provide meaningful support to 1-3 startups on a monthly basis.

    MangoReader wins the best educational startup from over 200 startups that applied.

  • Young Creative Entrepreneur Award 2012

    British Council

    Winning the Digital for Creative Industries award for MangoReader by British Council for building an ecosystem where publishers, authors, educators, instructors and content curators can come together and build better content collaboratively focusing on their strengths. This provides better value proposition for students as they get better learning material and through the platform, can now engage with content, discuss and collaborate with each other and experience the real world learning…

    Winning the Digital for Creative Industries award for MangoReader by British Council for building an ecosystem where publishers, authors, educators, instructors and content curators can come together and build better content collaboratively focusing on their strengths. This provides better value proposition for students as they get better learning material and through the platform, can now engage with content, discuss and collaborate with each other and experience the real world learning through an online platform.

    The British Council’s Young Creative Entrepreneur Awards celebrate and connect an international network of emerging entrepreneurs who demonstrate leadership across the creative sectors. The award seeks to attract Indian entrepreneurs between 21 and 40 years old with at least 2 to 3 years experience, working within these creative industries in India. The YCE award goes beyond recognising the achievements of these entrepreneurs but aims to reward them for their contribution to their respective sectors and provide them a platform to begin a dialogue with their UK counterparts.

Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Hindi

    Native or bilingual proficiency

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