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Institution Profile

Prometheus School, Noida

Despite the Covid-19 pandemic having forced closure of this greenfield enterprise
within six months of admitting its first batch, this tech-savvy IB candidate school
has got off to a good start because of excellent word-of-mouth publicity received
from satisfied parents and students

AUTAR NEHRU
ESPITE THE MINT-
FRESH Prometheus School,
Noida (PSN, estb.2019)
Dhaving experienced early
turbulence because of the Covid-19
pandemic, its promoter-trustee
Mukesh Sharma believes this K-12
co-ed day school has got off to a
good start. Because of widespread
word-of-mouth publicity received
from satisfied students and parents
since it admitted its first batch of 30
students in September 2019, its en-
rolment for the academic year 2021-
22 starting in July has risen to 196.
Unfortunately, six months after the
school admitted its first batch, the
Central government ordered closure
of all education institutions includ-
ing preschools, schools, colleges
and universities to check the spread
of the virulent virus. Thus far, this
co-ed day school has been providing
online education to its K-12 students, Prometheus snapshot: good start in bad times
although as we go to press, it has
reopened for class X-XII students on
an optional basis. tion of QA Infotech Pvt. modern four-sto-
“The switch to online learning Ltd and since then has reyed main building
that this new greenfield school bootstrapped several com- houses ICT-enabled
has experienced was quick and panies including QAIT classrooms, STEM
seamless because Prometheus was DevLabs, Perseverance IT lab facilities, audi-
conceptualised and established Solutions, Affidabile Solu- torium, studios for
from the start as a tech-savvy tions and WeBuildLearn- the performing and
school to provide engaging learning ing. In 2019, he decided to visual arts, separate
experiences rooted in inquiry-based cross the line from being a junior and senior
and experiential learning pedagogies. “dissatisfied parent and IT Mukesh Sharma school libraries, a
As soon as schools are permitted entrepreneur to edupre- medical clinic and
to reopen we will go full throttle to neur,” and leverage his dining halls.
empower our students to bloom into “digital acumen in education with Sports facilities include a sports
technologically adept, intellectually passion to reimagine teaching and centre for indoor games including
equipped, caring young people learning” to establish PSN. shooting range, squash, yoga, and
capable of fulfilling their dreams Spread across a 7.5 acre campus table tennis, badminton and tennis
and aspirations in academia, diverse in Noida’s green Jaypee Wishful courts, in addition to a horse riding
professions, and business,” says Township, PSN is a candidate school academy, Olympic size swimming
Sharma. for the International Baccalaureate pool and open playground for field
An alumnus of BITS-Pilani and (IB) Primary Years, Middle Years games such as soccer, cricket and
University of Colorado, Boulder, and Diploma programmes and is athletics. The school’s campus also
USA, Sharma began his career with pursuing authorisation as a full hosts a unique Prometheus Town.
DCM Data Systems followed by stints continuum IB World School. It also This theme park for primary school
with IBM Corporation, Quark Inc, offers students the option of Cam- children features child sized replicas
Gale Group and Adobe Systems. In bridge IGCSE and A levels in classes of real-life workplaces such as a gro-
2003, he went solo with the promo- IX-XII. This co-ed day school’s ultra- cery store, police station, restaurant,

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