Junior Program: Shop for your courses!

September 9th, 2022

 Course Shopping: Market Rules!
How do I sign up?

● On the signup sheet, add your

preferred course, as well as an Each scholar MUST register for a course!
additional course you will enjoy These sessions will be a crucial part of a
● This sign-up exercise will be repeated scholar’s growth journey at Athena.
each month, with 5 new courses
launching simultaneously
● A module may be run multiple times
depending on scholar demand
Course Shopping: Market Rules!

How do I receive a certificate?

● Attend all sessions for your course (if

classes are missed, you might have to
wait a few months for the course to
cycle back!)
● Finish all assignments. At the end of
each month, your mastery will be
assessed based on pre-decided
evaluation criteria
Ideas Bazaar 3.0: September 2022

● Narrative Writing 101: How To Draft A Story

- Gokul Prabhu
● Business of Sports 101: Being a Sports Owner!
- Sahil Kukreja
● Intro to Data Science: Why is Data the New Gold, Level 2!
- Aditya Nathireddy
● Astrophysics: Unravelling the mysteries of the Universe!
- Vikram Londhe, Navars Edutech
● The Multiverse of Policy
- Arpit Goel
 Narrative Writing 101: How to Draft a Short Story
Week Agenda
1 Introduction: Reading as a Writer
● What are Short Stories?
● How do you read as a writer? What do you look for in the
story from a writer’s perspective?
2 Writing Character & Plot
● Character Development: backstories vs what is shown
○ Show vs Tell
● Plot Growth: Character-driven vs Story-driven

● Workshop Model 3 Structure

● Crash course in Editing
● Hone writing skills
● Storytelling as a Technique for
College Applications
● Beginning, Middle, End
● Macro-Editing: Looking for Loopholes, reality checks
● Peer-Review Rubric
4 Workshop
Students give constructive live feedback on peers’ stories
 Business of Sports 101: Being a Sports Owner
Week Agenda

1 Introduction: All You Need to Know about Sports!

● What are the various professions in sports?
● History of Sports and the BIG 5 sports & leagues
● Pick your favorite team for the rest of the course

2 Run Your Own Team!

● What all does it take to run a franchise?
● Finance, sales, marketing, expenses
● People and Processes

3 Transform Sports with Data and Technology

Takeaways from the Course:
➢ Learn about the ins and outs of the sports industry
➢ What does it take to run a sports franchise?
4 Pitch your team:
➢ Learn about how technology is changing sports
whether for better or worse
➢ Learn public speaking skills by creating a pitch deck
for your final presentation
● How is technology changing sports?
● How are teams leveraging the power of data to make
decisions?
● Case Study
Pitch your team to investors based on all the research you’ve done
across the various domains of finance, advertising, expenses and get
your true team valuation (Judges: Rahul & Poshak)
 Introduction to D S (Level 2): Why data is the new gold?
Week
Note: It’s mandatory to complete basic
course before registering for Intermediate
course. Otherwise, you will need to clear a
simple eligibility test which comprises of
basic questions from SQL, Statistics,
Probability & ML
Agenda
1 Tools : Excel, Python, NoSQL & PowerBI
● Advanced topics in Excel : Pivot & What-if analysis
● Why object oriented programming is important?
● NoSQL : Introduction, Importance, Differences with RDBMS
● Power BI : Charts & Dashboards
● Creating an API using flask
2 Statistics and Machine learning
● Missing value treatment & Outlier handling
● Hypothesis Testing
● Tree based algorithms : Decision trees & XG Boost
● Unsupervised learning: K-means & Hierarchical clustering
● Overfitting & Underfitting, usage of hyperparameter tuning.
3 Natural Language Processing (NLP)
● Introduction
● Cleaning & Preprocessing of text data
● Feature creation
● Text classification & Topic Modelling
4 Group project presentations
Astrophysics: Unravelling the Session Agenda Theme

Mysteries of the Universe!

Concept of Research
1
Theory of Relativity Astronomy
2
 
End of Universe
3
Quantum Nature of World Particle Physics
4
 

Space is for everyone.

Higgs Boson and LHC
5.

Rocket Design Space Science

6.
 
Space Engineering Challenges
7.

Aircraft design Aerospace

8.
 
Aerodynamics
9.

The Unknown Land  

10.
Course Takeaways: Experiential Moon Mission
11.
The Vehicle MoonTo 1.0
● The Nextgen Skill
● Exploring the space and universe 12.
The Target
● Asking the right questions
● Explore the connect 13.
The Machine
● Ideate, create, test and innovate
Moon Buggy
14.
Projects:
● Search for the Life 15.
Going Back
● Moon Habitat
● Rover Design 16.
Reflection and Student Presentation
 The Multiverse of Policy
● Visualise Policy with Words
● Importance of Policy in Everyday Life
● Understanding Writing for Policy
● ‘Wicked Problem’ : Policy and
Transportation Infrastructure
● Introduction Sustainable Development
Goals and Community Action
Week Agenda
1 Introduction: Visualise Policy with Words
● Picturing Policy in Everyday life
● Me to We : Connection of Policy and Words
● Words, Policy and Essay
2 Transportation in Everyday Life
● Introduction to cities, urban life and vehicles around us
● Reflect on your experience
● Understanding experience through writing
3 Sustainability in Everyday Life
● Sustainable Development Goals
● Using Sustainable Products
● Exchange personal experience
4 Build a Community for Action : Project
● Identify and Know your community
● Note names of people, place, country for possible action