Pramaan
The curriculum of proof, inside your school, after the bell.
For schools across India, grades 5 to 8. Grow the three things the students of tomorrow need, curiosity, confidence and agency. Every child graduates certified by Pramaan, with a measured before and after and a holistic report mapped to the Holistic Progress Card.
- Schools anywhere in India
- Run in person, in the school day's last hour
- Certification from Pramaan and a holistic report for every child
What the evidence says.
lower on the exam once the answer-giving chatbot was taken away. Students whose tutor only asked questions lost nothing.
Bastani et al., PNAS 2025
pupils in the largest classroom trial of curiosity ever run. Three years later, the children still remembered more science.
Alan and Mumcu, American Economic Review 2024
questions an hour: a child asks about 26 at home and about 2 at school.
Tizard and Hughes, via Engel, Harvard Educational Review 2011
employment of 22 to 25 year olds in the jobs most exposed to AI since late 2022, while older workers in the same jobs held steady.
Brynjolfsson, Chandar and Chen, Stanford Digital Economy Lab 2025
Interdisciplinary, real-world projects, inside your timetable.
Each session gives your students one real problem that pulls in several subjects, and ends with something built. These are the kinds of problems they take on.
Build a bridge that holds
Paper, tape and a target load. Teams test, break and redesign until it holds, then explain why it held.
See the question they start with
How do you carry the most weight with the least paper?
What it grows: Confidence, curiosity
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.
See the question they start with
What would someone actually pay for?
What it grows: Agency, confidence
Feed a city of a crore
Plan a meal that is healthy, affordable and could be cooked ten million times a day.
See the question they start with
What does it take to feed ten million people well?
What it grows: Curiosity, agency
Design for a hotter planet
Work out how heat moves, then design and test a way to keep a room cooler without power.
See the question they start with
Can you cool a room without electricity?
What it grows: Curiosity, confidence
Argue the future
Should AI grade exams? Teams gather evidence, argue both sides, then defend one position in front of the room.
See the question they start with
Who should decide what a good answer is?
What it grows: Confidence, agency
Run a one-day venture
Start with a small budget, make something, sell it, then count the profit and the lessons.
See the question they start with
How do you turn a small budget into a profit?
What it grows: Agency, confidence
Invent a sorting machine
Design a machine, from cardboard and rules, that sorts a mixed pile faster than a person can.
See the question they start with
Can a set of rules do the job better than you?
What it grows: Curiosity, confidence
Explain it on air
Pick a big idea from science or history, research it, and explain it in a three-minute podcast episode.
See the question they start with
Can you make a hard idea simple?
What it grows: Confidence, curiosity
Plan a city for 2050
Design a neighbourhood for 2050 that is cooler, greener and easier to move around, then defend the trade-offs.
See the question they start with
What should the city your children live in look like?
What it grows: Agency, curiosity
Ask. Build. Lead.
An after-school programme inside your school, run in person by Pramaan with your teacher in the room. Maximum 20 learners in teams of three to five. 90-minute sessions built on our curriculum, with a different build or exploration each week.
Every session, on paper.
Questions asked per child. Guesses, each with a confidence number. Errors fixed. What came back a week later. At the start, middle and end: the Curiosity and Exploration Inventory-II, the Intrinsic Motivation Inventory and Bandura's self-efficacy scales. The report: one page per child and per cohort, a holistic account of where they started, what they built and asked, and where they ended.
From a call to a cohort
Book a 20-minute call
Tell us your school and a time that suits. We bring the deck and answer everything on the call.
Agree the room, the day and the learners
A room with a wall and a screen, one afternoon a week, up to 20 children from grades 5 to 8.
Sessions begin
We run every session in person with your teacher in the room, with mentors and experts guiding the projects, and parents get a weekly update.
Graduation day
Every child presents what they built to their parents and graduates certified by Pramaan, with a measured before and after and a holistic report mapped to the Holistic Progress Card.
What we bring, what you provide.
| We provide | The school provides |
|---|---|
| The programme, every card and every material | A room with a wall and a basic projector or screen |
| The sessions, run in person by Pramaan | Up to 20 children from grades 5 to 8 |
| The measurement, Pramaan certification and a holistic report for every child | A parents' demo afternoon at the end |
| Teacher training to run it yourselves, offered separately | Two adults in every room; a parent's confirmation before a child joins |