People
Lalit Pant (Founder and Managing Trustee)
Lalit is a learner, teacher, and code-crafter based out of Dehradun, India. For the past many years, he has been working on Kojo (www.kojo.in), an open-source app that helps children learn computational thinking, design thinking, and essential core skills that provide the foundation for these other skills. Kojo is used worldwide, and is also a part of the govt. curriculum in India.
He spends his work/hobby time enjoying teaching computer programming, AI, and meditation to youngsters, and having fun writing software and books. Lalit has worked as a professional programmer for many many years - in roles all the way from junior programmer to CTO - designing and developing software for companies in the United States, Europe, and India.
He has also written articles for popular (in the late 1990s) programming magazines like Dr. Dobbs Journal and Java Report. He holds multiple patents, but is not too proud of that fact given his open source leanings. His open source projects include Kojo (a programming based learning environment), Tefla (a deep learning AI toolkit), Jiva (a genetic algorithms library), kojo-ai, kojo-gaming, and kojo-music. Back in the day, he also wrote an OS for Agents, and a Prolog interpreter as the brain of an Agent (for an Agent platform being built at a startup).
Lalit is a graduate of IIT Kanpur. He has a postgraduate degree from IIT Delhi. He did his schooling at La-Martiniere, Lucknow.
Vibha Pant (Trustee)
Vibha is an artist, teacher, and freelance market researcher based out of Dehradun, India. She spends her work/hobby time teaching stuff related to art and computers to school-children, writing ebooks, and working on Market Research assignments involving statistical analysis and data mining. She has many years of experience working in the analytics department of one of the top direct-marketing/market-research firms in the US. She has a postgraduate degree from the acclaimed market-research masters program at the University of Texas at Arlington. Vibha also has an MBA degree in HR.
Nikhil Pant (Advisor)
Nikhil has been working with school children and college youth for over 20 years. He left his civil engineering job to teach at Manava Bharati School, New Delhi, in 1996. He has developed Child Centric Learning By Doing (CCLBD) modules - SAMEER & MAITREYA - that focus on enabling & empowering children to discover their true calling in life. Parents, college youth and corporate executives (as part of CSR) volunteer in implementing these modules - both in schools as well as in neighbourhoods. Nikhil has served as the Chief Programme Officer at the National Foundation for CSR, New Delhi. He is currently involved in Compliance to Impact with Sustainability advising to governments, corporates, NGOs, and Academia on CSR and Sustainable Development.
Core Team
