For students in Classes IX to XII
IIT Madras School Connect Program
Let your child try a field before choosing one. This batch covers nineteen fields, from data science to law to forensic science. Each runs eight weeks online and costs ₹500.
Sanketana is a partner of the IIT Madras School Connect program, from September 2026, so we can register your child for these courses.
Enrol for a courseTell us by 28 September. IIT Madras closes registration on the 30th.Registration for the October 2026 batch has closed.
The details
Fees and certificates are set and issued by IIT Madras. Sanketana handles the registration.
WhoStudents in Classes IX to XII
Fee₹500 per course, paid to IIT Madras
Starts5 October 2026
Register by30 September 2026
FormatEight weeks, online, taught by IIT Madras faculty
CertificateOfficial e-certificate from CODE, IIT Madras, on passing the assessment
All 19 courses
Each course is an introduction: long enough to find out whether a field holds your child's attention. Grouped as IIT Madras groups them.
Computing
- Weeks 1-2 : What is AI - General pipeline
- Data collection/Feature Engineering in various structured/unstructured settings
- Structured:
- Vegetable Market expenditure data
- Iris Dataset
- Unstructured:
- Pixel values as raw representation of Images - handwritten digits data
- Emails -> features based on word count/ TF-IDF
Weeks 3-4 : Types of Learning- Supervised, unsupervised and sequential learning
- Examples for learning
- Unsupervised learning
- K-means clustering
- Hierarchical clustering
Weeks 5-6 : Algorithm- Supervised learning
- KNN
- Decision trees
- Neural network
- Training error and performance measures.
- Demo of image classification
Weeks 7-8 : Learning with feedback- Real-world examples - question answering, healthcare, robot navigation
- How feedback affects the setting.
- A simple example of online learning - exam question answering with help from friends.
- How can one learn when no friend is good enough?
- Week 1: Gaming and Human Senses
- Objective: Explore how game technology simulates and interacts with human senses.
- Examples of Senses in Gaming: Learn how controllers, VR headsets, and motion sensors mimic human senses to make games more immersive.
- Enhancing Immersion: Understand how sensory technologies like rumble feedback and motion tracking improve the gaming experience.
- Tech Behind Sensors: Explore the basic working of microphones, cameras, and haptic motors that power modern gaming devices.
- Hands-On Demo: Compare a simple sensor (light/motion) with a human sense, similar to Wii motion tracking.
Week 2: Action and Response in Games- Objective: Understand the principles of responsive game systems and player feedback.
- Fast Response Systems: See how reflex-based games, racing wheels, and vibration feedback test quick player responses.
- Role of Actuators: Learn how motors and haptic devices provide feedback that makes gameplay feel realistic.
- Feedback Loops in Games: Discover how input, processing, and output form the foundation of responsive game systems.
- Hands-On Project: Build a sensor-based trigger (e.g., a fan or LED lights up when a hand waves).
Week 3: Perception, Logic, and Game AI- Objective: Introduce fundamental concepts of artificial intelligence and logic in game characters.
- Classic Game AI Examples: Study AI behavior in classics like Pac-Man and FPS games to see how simple logic drives characters.
- Logic in Game AI: Learn how if-then rules and decision trees create believable non-player characters (NPCs).
- Intro to AI Tech: Get a glimpse of decision tree structures and how they guide AI decision-making in games.
- Hands-On Activity: Code a simple decision tree for a game character using p5.js.
Week 4: Hand Tracking in Games- Objective: Examine how hand gestures are used as a form of game control.
- Hand Tracking Examples: Discover how Wii controllers, Kinect, and VR systems use hand gestures to control gameplay.
- Mapping Gestures to Actions: Learn how hand movements are translated into specific in-game interactions.
- MediaPipe and Pose-Tracking: Get an introduction to modern pose-tracking tools that power hand gesture recognition.
- Practical Activity: Train a simple body-tracking model with Google Teachable Machine.
Week 5: Eye Tracking in Gaming- Objective: Learn about the emerging field of eye tracking and its applications in gaming.
- Eye Tracking in Games: Explore how games use gaze for aiming, camera movement, and immersive horror experiences.
- Gaze-Based Interaction: Learn how controlling games with your eyes creates new gameplay possibilities.
- Eye-Tracking Technology: Understand the basic working of eye trackers and how they capture gaze movement.
- Practical Activity: Try a web-based gaze recorder demo.
Week 6: AI and Speech Recognition- Objective: Explore how AI enables voice-based interaction and commands in games.
- Voice in Games: See how games like Hey You, Pikachu! and VRChat use speech for interaction.
- Voice Commands in Gaming: Learn how speech recognition enables control and communication in games.
- AI Speech Technology: Understand how AI handles accents, tone, and natural language to improve recognition.
- Hands-On Demo: Use Google Teachable Machine to try audio-based recognition.
Week 7: Extended Reality (XR)- Objective: Get an introduction to the different forms of extended reality (VR, AR, MR) and their applications.
- VR in Gaming: Experience how VR games like Beat Saber and Half-Life: Alyx create full immersion.
- AR and MR in Gaming: Learn how Pokémon GO and HoloLens use AR/MR to add digital layers to the real world.
- XR Hardware and Software: Explore the basic principles of VR headsets, AR glasses, and MR platforms.
- Practical Activity: Try an AR app or AR filter and review the experience.
Week 8: Final Project- Objective: Apply learned concepts to build a final project demonstrating a key game technology integration.
- Project 1: Build a voice-to-command action with p5.js (e.g., say "jump" to trigger an action).
- Project 2: Build a hand gesture-controlled bulb with p5.js (gesture turns bulb on/off).
- Module 1 : Welcome to Cybersecurity
- Why cybersecurity matters
- Some Famous cyber attacks
- What does it need to become a cybersecurity expert?
- Understanding of your computer system -- the computer system stack.
- Hands on: Understand what Operating System you are using?
- Hands on: Find your CPU?
- Hands on: Find your RAM?
- Hands on: Investigate your storage.
- Hands on: Is antivirus enabled?
- Hands on: Check the web browser? What is the version number? Is auto-security update enabled?
Module 2 : Cryptography- Classical cryptography
- Modern Cryptography
- AES
- hash functions
- RSA
- digital signatures
Module 3 : Passwords and Authentication- Strong and weak passwords.
- John the ripper
- Password managers
- Checking passwords and timing attacks
- Storing passwords
- Passwordless authentication - FIDO2
Module 4 : Internet under the hood- Packets
- IP address
- DNS
- Routers
- Websites
- Hands on: Use ping, tracert / traceroute, nslookup
- Observe: How packets travel; DNS lookup
- Mini challenge: Find where a website is hosted.
Module 5 : Popular Cyberattacks- malware
- ransomware
- social engineering
- phishing and fake websites
- Mini CTF -- A bunch of easy to difficult problems (around 20 of them), and they can solve as many as possible.
Math and Science
- Week 1-2: How do computers represent information?
- Topics: binary number system, more general bases (like factoradics, etc), and some activities based on binary representations.
Week 3-4: How do computers find things?- The first part will be about traditional search methods like binary search and then we talk about KMP-style pattern matching algorithms. Hands-on activities will include the 21 card trick and we will revisit ternary bases in this demonstration.
Week 5-6: How can computers help with elections?- Challenges with coming up with voting systems, will explore issues around holding secure and fair elections, and finally a discussion of Arrow's impossibility theorem.
Week 7-8: What makes financial transactions secure?- A discussion of cryptosystems, leading up to RSA and introducing some number theory along the way.
- Week 1: The Knight's Tour and Mathematical Exploration
- Meet the chess pieces and discover how they inspire puzzles
- Non-attacking chess pieces and the classic knight's tour challenge
- Smart strategies: the Warnsdorff heuristic and the power of backtracking
Week 2: Knight Tours on Rectangular Chessboards- Do knight tours exist on bigger, rectangular boards?
- Taking apart and understanding closed knight tours
- Why chessboard coloring matters: tours on 4×n boards
Week 3: Tours of Leapers- Beyond the knight: tours of leapers like the Camel and Giraffe
- A general look at when such tours exist
- Connection to graph theory: Hamiltonian circuits
Week 4: The Peg Solitaire Game- Can you solve Peg Solitaire on the English board?
- The French version – and how group theory comes to the rescue!
Week 5: The World of Infinities, Part 1- A quick survey of really big numbers
- Injections, surjections, bijections and how we compare sizes of sets
- The strange but famous Hilbert's Hotel paradox
Week 6: The World of Infinities, Part 2 – Beyond Infinity- How do you "list" a set?
- Not all infinities are the same size!
- The big question: is there a "largest" infinity?
Week 7: Counting Areas of Shapes- What do we really mean by "dimension"?
- A first step into areas under curves: the idea of integration
- Pick's Theorem: counting areas neatly on the lattice
Week 8: A Road to the Future – Open Problems and Directions- Frankl's Union-Closed Sets Conjecture
- Singmaster's Conjecture: how many times can a number appear in Pascal's triangle?
- The Twin Primes Conjecture: are there infinitely many pairs of primes 2 apart?
- Ramsey Theory: why it's "better to fight the aliens"
- Thinking ahead: exploring higher studies in mathematics
- Week 1-2: Molecules: Simple and Complex
- How are molecules built?
- Look around: What molecules are involved in building things?
- What molecules have to do with colors?
Week 3: Investigating Molecular Interactions- Probing a Chemical Reaction
- Probing a Physical Process
Week 4-6: Importance of Molecular Design for Applications- Sensing
- Display Technology and LED
- Biological Ruler
- Medical Imaging
- Solar Energy Harvesting
- Photo-catalysis
Week 7-8: Career Path in Chemistry- Difficulty in Learning Chemistry
- Methods of Learning Chemistry
- Programs in Chemistry
- Job Opportunities
- Week 1: Biodiversity
- What is it? How do you connect with ecology
- Description of components of biodiversity
- Examples of abiotic components
- Understanding ranges of species and range overlap
Week 2: Exploring nature around you- Documenting biodiversity & elements of study design
- Use online maps and functionalities available within them to understand the potential diversity around you.
- Demonstration with some example sites. Tricks and tips on looking for various elements of Diversity.
- How to find insects - what are the natural history drivers for insect diversity
- How do we identify birds and different ecology?
- Introduction to study design
Week 3: Creating a project- Learn to create a biodiversity project
- Login, create observations and work with iNaturalist.
Week 4: How do you measure biodiversity?- What is Biogeography?
- What are the global patterns that are recognised today?
- How are biogeographic patterns in India?
Week 5: Spreadsheet exercises on biodiversity- How will you examine biodiversity data that you have collected?
- How can you integrate the learnings of biodiversity measurements with your data?
Week 6: How does biodiversity connect with evolution?- Ecological processes result in evolution and creation of new species.
- Example of Darwin's Finches
Week 7: Example of Anoles from the Caribbean- Study biodiversity and evolution with an example of Anoles from the Caribbean.
Week 8: Understanding biodiversity from genes and sounds- Often understanding biodiversity is challenging because it depends on the human construct of what a species is.
- We will explore the ideas of taxonomy and the modern methods of understanding species using data from the genes of the species being studied.
- We will show that using genetics our understanding of biodiversity in India has changed remarkably.
- We will switch gears to understand what is cultural diversity - through bioacoustics or sounds produced by different species.
- We will provide a brief introduction to how sounds are studied
- What are the patterns of acoustic diversity that we know?
Engineering
- Weeks 1-2 : Introduction to Electronic Systems
- Electronic Miniaturization
- Dissection of Mobile phone
- Battery / Charger specifications
- Battery rating - Ah, Wh, V
- Charger rating - A, W
Weeks 3-4 : The Physics behind Electrical resistance- Voltage
- Current
- Resistance
- Power and Energy dissipation
Weeks 5-6 : Introduction to time varying signals- Overview of operation of an electric motor
- Overview of operation of a microphone
- Overview of operation of an electric generator
- Prominence of sinusoidal signals
- Characterisation of sinusoidal signals - Amplitude, RMS, Frequency, Time Period
Weeks 7-8 : Energy of Time varying signals- Calculation of energy of time varying signals
- Harmonics in time varying signals
- Electricity bill calculation
- Week 1 : Power of Architecture and Design In Our Life
- Introduction to Architecture
- Scope and Diversity
- Introduction to Design
- Elements and Principles of Architecture
Week 2 : Elements of Architecture and Design- Element of Architecture-Point
- Element of Architecture-Line
- Element of Architecture-Line to Shape
- Element of Architecture-Line to Shape, Shape to Form
Week 3 : Principles of Architecture and Design- Aesthetics- Principles of Architecture - I
- Principles of Architecture - II
- Scale in Architecture and Graphics
- Proportion in Architecture and Graphics
Week 4 : Introduction to Composition- Shape Composition Using Tangrams
- Shape Transformation Using Shape Grammar as a Tool
- Exercise in Proportion
- Exercise in Scale
Week 5 : Principles of Architecture and Design of higher order- Repetition and Movement
- Pattern and Unity
- Rhythm and Variety
- Hierarchy and Harmony
Week 6 : Demonstration of how 'what we think' can become executable drawings- How to Draw Plans; Exercise involving Drawing Plan
- How to Draw Elevation; Exercise involving Drawing Elevation
- How to Draw Section; Exercise involving Drawing Section
- How to Draw Perspective; Exercise involving Drawing Perspective
Week 7 - Application of Principles in everyday life - (Logo Design, Jaali Design)- Abstraction as a tool for Creative Thinking
- Colours and its moods
- Tessellation for pattern creation
- Orientation to Take Home Project and Entrance Examinations for Architecture and Design
Week 8 - Summary of previous weeks (Introduction to Final Exam (Project))- Introduce Final Exam Project- Option 1- Color Wheel
- Introduce Final Exam Project- Option 2- Tessellation
- Introduce Final Exam Project- Option 3- Golden Proportion
- Summary, Conclusion and Ideas for Visits to Institution
- Week 1
- Initial comments and Game for product choice
- What makes bioproducts?
- Biotechnology experiments – Let's start with curd...!
- Inside a Biotech Lab: Tools, Equipment, and a Virtual Walkthrough
Week 2- What are the different cell types?
- Microscopy: The Story and the Science
- Prokaryotes and eukaryotes
- Microscope in Focus: Watch, Learn and Try It
Week 3- How is the bioproduct made on a large scale?
- Bioprocessing and Bioreactors: Grow, Process, and Use
- The need to look at the cell level
Week 4- Cell membrane and lipids
- Why does a cell make a bioproduct?
- Carbohydrates
- Biomolecules: Guess, Test, and Learn
Week 5- Proteins
- Finding proteins around us!
- Enzymes
Week 6- How are proteins made in the cell?
- Let us pull out banana DNA
- DNA visualisation: From banana to bands
- Understanding the cell
- Bioinformatics: Databases and Blast
- Similarity to Structure: Exploring Proteins with Bioinformatics
Week 7- Fundamental biomolecules
- The DNA copy machine
- Take home project
- Glucose sources
Week 8- Engineering metabolism and genetics
- The science of cutting and pasting DNA
- Week 1: Introduction to Industrial Design
- What is Design
- Role of Designers
- Indian Examples of Industrial Design
Week 2: Observation & Design Awareness- Identifying Problems in Daily Life
Week 3: Users & Empathy- Understanding Users
- Identifying Needs
- Understanding Contexts
Week 4: Form, Function & Materials- Relationship Between Shape and Use
- Material Selection and Application
Week 5: Design Process- Structured Approach to Problem-Solving
Week 6: Sketching for Designers- Visual Thinking Techniques
- Communicating Ideas Through Sketches
Week 7: Hands-on Design Project- Problem Identification
- Concept Development
Week 8: Design Careers & Pathways- Educational Opportunities in Design
- Entrance Examinations
- Professional Career Paths
- Week 1: World of Flying Vehicles
- Classification of aircrafts
- Flying vehicles
- Forces on an airplane
- Closure thoughts
Week 2: The Invisible Air- Demonstration
- Shape of the object: What happens if you change the shape of the object?
- More Demonstrations
- Closure thoughts
Week 3: Air and planes- Bluff and streamlined bodies
- How to move an airplane
- Control surfaces
- How should these surfaces move?
- Concluding thoughts
Week 4: Faster and faster- How fast do different airplanes travel? Introducing the idea of Mach number.
- Demonstration
- Different engines: turbofan, turbojet, solid rockets, liquid rockets and hybrid rockets
- Where is the oxygen? Inside a turbojet engine. Inside a rocket.
- Closing thought: How fast are our interplanetary satellites travelling?
Week 5: Can we leave orbit?- Thought experiment
- How exactly does our atmosphere look?
- What types of orbits exist?
- Polar and geostationary orbit. What types of satellites use what types of orbits?
- Plan an orbit to Mars. Different options for orbits.
Week 6: Slowing down- How do we slow down? The idea of parachutes and drag
- Why does a slit in the engine open during landing? Similarly, why do multiple surfaces protrude from the wing?
- What happens to the energy when you slow down a space shuttle? What happens to the kinetic energy? How do you cool the surface when the air temperature is greater than the melting point?
- Challenging environmental factors: Ice, snow, rain, heavy winds
Week 7: Spinning wings- The power of hover
- Let us look at a helicopter, why do we have a tail rotor? Need for counter torque, basis Newton's third law.
- Where are the control surfaces on a helicopter?
- Autorotation: Has nature perfected this technique already?
- Why was flying on Mars a challenge? Why not fly a fixed wing on Mars?
Week 8: Let us build a quadrotor- Introduce components of a quadrotor
- Talk about how input from the pilot's hands results in the motion of the quadrotor through space.
- Demonstration: Putting together the quadrotor
- Demonstration: Showing some flights.
- Week 1: Key concepts of Chemical Engineering
- Introduction to Chemical Engineering - from toothpaste to satellite launch propellant
- Rocket, EV
- Jaggery / sugar production
- Batch / continuous manufacturing. Unit operations; process; scale up; reaction engineering
- Systems and Control
- Thermodynamics; Separation
Week 2: Exercise/Hands-on Based- Do-it-yourself videos; Demonstration videos; conversations.
Week 3: From industrial scale to molecular – Products in our surroundings - FMCG and Pharmaceuticals- RO water purifier
- Extraction from plants
- Pharma industry
- Heat transfer; Mass transfer
- Fluid flow
- Drug delivery: diffusion and osmosis
- Chemical reactors
Week 4: Exercise/Hands-on Based- Do-it-yourself videos; Demonstration videos; conversations.
Week 5: Chemical industrial sector – current achievements and challenges- Battery
- Semiconductor device / membrane electrode assembly
- Refinery
- Materials
- Thin films / deposition
- Distillation; Cracking; catalysis
Week 6: Exercise/Hands-on Based- Do-it-yourself videos; Demonstration videos; conversations.
Week 7: Industry 4.0, AI/ML, Aerospace, Biomedical.- Cell programming
- Atomic and molecular picture
- Reaction engineering and control (advancements in ChemE)
- Sustainability, Energy, Ecology
- HPC, AI/ML
- TBD - Summary: promise of a career in Chemical Engineering
Week 8: Exercise/Hands-on Based- Do-it-yourself videos; Demonstration videos; conversations.
Humanities and Management
- Week 1: Value, Money & Inflation
- Is Money the Same as Value?
- Why Do We Trust Money?
- If Everyone Became Twice as Rich Overnight, Would We Be Better Off?
- Why Do We Value Brands if the Product Is the Same?
- Learning Outcome: Students understand value vs. money, trust in currency, inflation effects, and brand perception.
Week 2: Exercises- Simple inflation calculations, brand perception comparisons, currency trust scenarios.
- Activity: Compare prices of branded vs. generic goods, discuss perception differences
- Learning Outcome: Apply theoretical concepts from Week 1 to practical examples.
Week 3: Incentives, Risk & Everyday Choices- Why Do People Work?
- Why Do Some People Take Big Risks?
- Why Do Lotteries Exist if They're Bad Bets?
- Can Free Things Be Bad for You?
- Learning Outcome: Students understand incentives, risk-taking, probability, and perverse incentives.
Week 4: Exercises- Calculate expected values for simple gambles and investments.
- Activity: Identify real-world examples of perverse incentives.
- Learning Outcome: Apply incentive theory and risk analysis to everyday decisions.
Week 5: Markets, Failures & Game Theory- Why Trade Instead of Making Everything Ourselves?
- If Trade Is Good, Why Is It Unpopular?
- When Markets Don't Work: The Market for Lemons
- Why Can't We Just All Stop Polluting?
- Learning Outcome: Students learn trade theory, market failures, and collective action problems.
Week 6: Exercises- Trade simulation with comparative advantage.
- Activity: Simulate prisoner's dilemma in small groups.
- Learning Outcome: Experience trade-offs, cooperation, and market failures in practice.
Week 7 : Platforms, AI & the Future Economy- Why Do People Follow the Crowd in Markets?
- Platforms: Why Uber, Zomato, and Airbnb Work Differently
- When Platforms Misbehave
- Economics of AI: Will It Change Everything?
- Learning Outcome: Students understand modern platform economics, AI's impact, and digital market risks.
Week 8: Exercises- Analyze a platform's pricing strategy or network effects.
- Activity: Debate AI's impact on jobs and inequality.
- Learning Outcome: Apply platform economics and AI concepts to real-world scenarios.
- Week 1: Introduction to Law
- Law, Morality and Justice
- Branches of Law
- Career Opportunities in Law – New Trends
Week 2: Practical applications & scenarios- Indian Constitution as Fundamental Law
- History of the Constitution Making in India
- Structure of the Indian Constitution- Federalism & Separation of Powers
- Citizens, State and the Constitution – Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles and Fundamental Duties
Week 3: Courts, Citizens and the Constitution: Fundamental Rights- Kind of rights given to citizens, individuals and social & religious groups.
- Why does any law cannot violate fundamental rights given in the Constitution?
Week 4: Introduction to Criminal Law – Crimes & Legal Defenses- How is criminal law different from civil law
- Legal Glossary in Criminal Law explained
- Ingredients of a crime – mens rea and actus reus
- Legal Defenses - Insanity, Involuntary Intoxication, Age, Self-Defense
Week 5: Introduction to Private Law: Contracts & Torts- Concepts of Contract Law will be explained.
- Nature and Legal Remedy under Tort Law will be explained
Week 6: Applications- New Areas in Law - Intellectual Property Law, Environmental Law, Arbitration Law Technology Law
- The new areas of law will be discussed.
Week 7: Courtroom, procedures- Revision of Substantive Concepts in Law
Week 8: Revision, Clat- Preparation for CLAT - Skills and Basics
- Week 1: What Are the Humanities? Why Do They Matter?
- What do the Humanities study?
- How Humanities help us make sense of the world
- Activities: Humanities Bingo: A game-based intro to famous works (books, films, art)
- Outcome: Understand that Humanities are all around us — in books, films, culture, and personal stories.
Week 2: Humanities in Everyday Life- Pop culture, memes, movies, songs as cultural texts
- Understanding symbols, storytelling, and emotion in everyday things
- Activities: Meme Decoder Challenge & Play cultural detective
- Outcome: Learn to "read" the world through images, jokes, and music.
Week 3: Storytelling: My Identity, My Story- What makes you, YOU?
- Exploring culture, memory, and voice
- Activities: Memory Mapping, One-Minute Video
- Outcome: Reflect on personal experiences and to show how our personal stories are also connected to larger ideas like history, community, and identity.
Week 4: From Scrolls to Screens – the evolution of humanities- Oral to digital, Printing press and modernity, human stories in the age of interactive screens
- Humanities meets technology
- Activities: from cave-art to virtual games, from epic to emojis.
Week 5: Digital Selves and Media Literacy- How digital media shapes opinion and identity
- Understanding bias, algorithms, and influence
- Ad Dissection: Choose a social media ad — What does it sell? What feelings does it use?
- Outcome: Build media awareness and sharpen online critical thinking which is an important skill set in Humanities education
Week 6: Humanities and Social Change- Power of storytelling in social movements
- When words and art make a difference
- Outcome: To understand how the Humanities have historically contributed to and continue to inspire social change
- To understand how creative expressions shape public thought and policy
Week 7: Humanities in the Real World- Real people, real paths — where Humanities takes you
- Activities: Virtual Career Wall
- Outcome: Connect studies with future possibilities and real-life stories - how with training and expertise humanities education can help transform some of your interests and hobbies into potential career choices
Week 8: Pathways and Portfolios- Courses, scholarships, and universities in India and abroad
- Building a personal academic/career map
- Interview Project: Interaction with scholars/students
- Talk to someone (friend, relative, teacher) about how Humanities affects their work or life
- Activities: Create Your Path: Design a flowchart or map of where you want to go (e.g., "From Film Buff to Screenwriter")
- Outcome: A sense of direction and practical possibilities ahead
- Module 1: What is Digital Humanities? | Foundations and the Humanities–Technology Interface
- From Fr. Roberto Busa's Index Thomisticus to today's 'AI DH': a short history of the field
- The two-way relationship — how computation reshapes humanities inquiry, and how humanities concepts shape technology design
- Setting up the course's recurring question: what does humanities thinking bring that engineering alone cannot?
Module 2: Algorithmic Bias | How Do Machines 'Learn'? Who Teaches the 'Machines'?- How machine learning models are trained on human-authored data, and why datasets carry cultural assumptions
- Case studies of bias in language models, image generators, and recommendation systems
- Using humanities tools — critical theory, representation studies — to audit and correct algorithmic bias
Module 3: Augmented, Virtual and Extended Realities (AR/VR/XR) | Immersive Technologies in the Humanities- How narrative theory and embodiment studies inform immersive storytelling design
- Exploring AR/VR applications in museums, heritage sites, and memory projects
- Ethical questions of immersion: whose stories, whose bodies, whose history is being represented
Module 4: Games as Cultural Texts- Reading video games through literary and cultural theory — narrative, semiotics, myth
- Case study: tracing how a game's design choices encode cultural memory and meaning
- What game studies teaches interface and interaction designers
Module 5: Serious Games and Game-Based Learning- Principles of game-based pedagogy drawn from learning theory
- Designing a mini learning-game concept around a humanities theme
- Where humanities-informed design improves engagement over conventional EdTech
Module 6: Deep Mapping and Spatial Storytelling- GIS and digital cartography as humanities tools, not only technical ones
- Layering historical, cultural, and personal narrative onto place, drawing on memory studies
- Building a simple deep map of a local or personal place
Module 7: Building a Digital Portfolio- Consolidating the AI, gaming, mapping, and archival work from earlier weeks into one showcase
- Using free, browser-based tools appropriate for school-level access
- Framing the portfolio as evidence of humanities-technology thinking for future study or work
Module 8: Career Pathways and Future Possibilities- Emerging roles at the humanities-technology intersection: UX research, digital archiving, AI ethics, cultural data science
- Why 'AI DH' — the integration of AI and humanistic inquiry — is a growing specialisation globally
- Guidance on next steps: courses, competitions, and portfolios for interested students
New this batch
- Week 1: Every Contact Leaves a Trace
- What Forensic Science Actually Is, and What It Is Not
- The First Fifteen Minutes: A Crime Scene Officer's Account
- Building Your Locard Log
- The Crime Scene Officer: One Job, Explained
Week 2: Your Original Password- Loops, Whorls and Arches: The Grammar of a Fingerprint
- The Calcutta Bureau: How India Gave the World Fingerprint Classification
- Lifting and Classifying Your Own Ten Prints
- The Fingerprint Examiner: One Job, Explained
Week 3: The Scene Is a Group Project- Securing, Searching and Recording a Scene
- The Case That Turned on a Single Fibre
- Photographing and Sketching a Scene in a Shoebox
- The Trace Evidence Analyst: One Job, Explained
Week 4: The Body Keeps Receipts- From Blood Groups to Barcodes: How DNA Identifies a Person
- The Exculpatory Case: When the Science Freed Somebody
- Extracting DNA on Your Kitchen Table
- The DNA Analyst: One Job, Explained
Week 5: Your Handwriting Snitches- Forgery, Line Quality, and Why Graphology Is Not Science
- Reading a Threat Message: A Forensic Linguist at Work
- Whodunit Wrote It: Comparison and Ink Chromatography
- The Document Examiner and Forensic Linguist: One Job, Explained
Week 6: Caught in 4K- Metadata, Deleted Files and the Myth of Vanishing Evidence
- Inside a Device Examination, and the Frauds Aimed at Teenagers
- Running the Delulu Detector on Five Media Files
- The Cyber Forensic Analyst: One Job, Explained
Week 7: The Dose Makes the Poison- Why Quantity, Not Substance, Decides a Poison
- Inside the Instrument Room: The Adulteration Work Nobody Hears About
- Testing Turmeric and Milk in Your Own Kitchen
- The Forensic Chemist and Toxicologist: One Job, Explained
Week 8: Bones, Bugs, Bites and Beasts- What a Skeleton, an Insect and a Pollen Grain Can Tell You
- Prosecuting a Trafficking Case on the Strength of a Single Scale
- Bone Detective: Estimating Height and Measuring Your Error
- The Wildlife Forensic Scientist and Anthropologist: One Job, Explained
- Week 1: What the Job Actually Is
- The Forensic Ecosystem and the Expert's Duty to the Court
- How the Profession Changed When Forensic Visits Became Law
- Mapping Three Roles to Their Real Qualification Routes
- Twelve Role Families, Twelve Subject Decisions
Week 2: The Laboratory Sciences Path- The Instrument Shelf: What Each Machine Actually Answers
- Two Laboratory Careers: A Forensic Chemist and a Ballistics Expert
- Reading a Chromatogram and Writing the Finding
- Getting In: Degrees, Entrance Tests and What Selectors Look For
Week 3: The Biological Sciences Path- From Swab to Profile: Inside a DNA Laboratory
- Disaster Victim Identification and the Wildlife Casework
- Reading an Electropherogram and Stating the Honest Caution
- Getting In: The Postgraduate Step Most Learners Miss
Week 4: The Medicine and Behaviour Path- Cause, Manner and Mechanism: What a Body Can Establish
- What Forensic Psychology Is, and What Television Is Not
- Building a Biological Profile and Knowing What to Refuse
- Getting In: Medicine, Nursing, Odontology, Anthropology and Psychology
Week 5: The Digital and Cyber Path- Imaging, Hashing and Why You Never Work on the Original
- The Device That Broke a Case, and the Money Trail That Followed
- Verifying an Acquisition and Recording the Chain of Custody
- Getting In: The Cyber Routes That Do Not Need an Engineering Degree
Week 6: The Language, Documents and Law Path- Idiolect, Authorship and the Multilingual Indian Problem
- The Forged Will and the Ransom Note
- Writing an Authorship Opinion, Limits Included
- Getting In: Forensic Careers from a Humanities Stream
Week 7: The Management, Finance and Governance Path- Following the Money: Forensic Accounting and Fraud Examination
- The Fraud That Was Found in a Spreadsheet
- Finding the Transaction That Does Not Belong
- Getting In: Forensic Routes from Commerce and Arts
Week 8: Building Your Pathway- The Stream and Subject Map, Domain by Domain
- An Admissions and Alumni Panel Answers the Questions
- Presenting and Defending Your Career Blueprint
- Eligibility, Calendars and Making the Decision
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How it works
The same steps whether or not your child already studies with us.
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Pick a course
Send us your child's class and the course below. Unsure which one? Ask for a 15-minute call and we'll help you choose.
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We register your child
Our IIT Madras coordinator registers them with IIT Madras and sends you the next step.
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Pay IIT Madras
The ₹500 fee goes to IIT Madras directly. Sanketana charges nothing on top.
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Eight weeks, then the assessment
Classes begin 5 October. Pass the assessment and IIT Madras issues the e-certificate.
Enrol for a course
We'll need this by 28 September to register your child before IIT Madras closes the batch.
The October 2026 batch has closed
IIT Madras stopped taking registrations on 30 September. Talk to us and we'll let you know when the next batch opens.
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IIT's courses introduce a field in eight weeks. Ours build one skill over years.
A student choosing what to study next benefits from both. If an eight-week course leaves your child wanting to go deeper into data, AI or software, that is the work Sanketana does, one teacher and one student at a time. See how we teach
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Sanketana School of Code, Bangalore