About Learn & Earn

The idea for Learn and Earn started with a question: How can technology be used to solve the educational problems of India? Around 66% of India is covered by rural areas and around 60% of students in those areas drop out before completing primary school. There’s also a large enrollment gap between middle school and high school. This only creates a larger divide between the most privileged and the least privileged sects of India. Students usually don’t go to school because of a lack of interest in studying, parents want their children to work or get married (the latter being a much bigger problem for teenage girls).

I created this service as a way to decrease the large dropout rates of underprivileged students of India through technology. We get some of the poorest or worst performing students from a school in a village and pay them to do certain tasks in school. These are tasks like having a high attendance rate, doing homework consistently, engaging in social service, etc. The monetary aspect of the program gives the parents of students to let their students study in school. My main goal is to prevent students from dropping out and help them have a healthy education.

About Medhaav

I’m Medhaav Chandra Mahesh, a 12th grader from British School Muscat who currently resides in Oman.

I’ve always had an interest in computer science and recently become more interested in entrepreneurship and using computer science to solve real-world problems. This idea came to me because it was one I could relate to most. As a student myself, the idea of people not getting at least a decent education was a frightening one because all it does is create more social inequality. I want the next generation to suffer from the same problems this one does and fixing educational problems is one of the most important ways to solve many of those problems.