Project-Based Learning

What is Project-Based Learning?

Taking ownership of education

Redefining personal growth

Project-based learning delivers authentic challenges while allowing students to be proactive and take charge of their education. Our commitment to project-based learning comes from a recognition that the student drives learning. All students follow a project-based curriculum in our academic programme or community engagement programme through:

  • Service Learning Projects
  • Local Project Weeks
  • Project-Based Certificate

Aside from these, the project-based learning approach is also woven into other areas of academics like the Group 4 interdisciplinary Science Project, the World Studies Extended Essay, and the Local Project Week.

Project-based learning is designed to help students develop new skills, identify strengths and areas that require growth, show commitment to Triveni experiences, and much more. These projects are the perfect platform to showcase their unique talents and abilities. These self-designed projects allow students to focus on a personally meaningful topic and challenge themselves to question, learn, and be curious inside and outside the classroom.

Project Week

Student-led initiatives with non-profit partners

Project Week serves as an extension of student’s existing Service Learning and Community Engagement. It creates a bond with every students regular service, upskills individual, and learns from the best practice in that field. During Project Week, the ‘process’ is as important as the ‘product’, wherein the learning that will happen while researching, planning, proposing, and implementing a Project Week is as important as the ‘work’ done at the project location. The Project Week should follow the IPARD cycle like regular Triveni activities, which includes Investigation, Planning, Action, Reflection, and Demonstration.

Every year, our first-year students embark on a student-led and faculty-mentored project week wherein students work with leading non-profit organisations across India. Students initiate, reserach, plan and pitch their own projects with clear deliverables and participate in a public showcase to share what you have learned. We have NGO partners across causes, including children’s rights, biodiversity, human rights, sustainable living, and even Hindustani classical music preservation.

Project-based certificate

Personalised learning journeys for fostering 21st century skills

MUWCI students who like to go beyond the regular curriculum and sharpen their 21st century skills — creativity, collaboration, communication, and critical thinking — are also offered the project-based certificate programme. You can pick an area of interest and a problem you would like to address through your project. Students’ ability to tailor the programme to their interests means there has been a wide variety of past project topics at MUWCI. From social entrepreneurship and the arts to robotics and public health, project topics have been creative and innovative, allowing students to sow the seeds for real change.

The Project-Based Certificate is ideal for students who seek to go beyond the IB and delve further into Project-Based Learning. You have the autonomy to choose your project, and you will learn to develop your voice and project management skills. In the second year, students are mentored by faculty and external experts to understand the problem better and implement innovative suggestions and strategies. The PBC is rigorous, and an important part of your journey and accomplishment is the showcase at the end of your second year. Students who successfully complete the project will graduate with an additional certificate citation besides the IB Diploma.

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