Days after Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-I became India's first private orbital launch, Ashwin Mahavadi, SVP of Growth at Skyroot, came to IIT Guwahati, his alma mater, to talk to students about what it takes to build deep tech, and why the next decade in space looks promising for India. IIT Guwahati hosted Ashwin Mahavadi (BTech, Civil Engineering, Batch of 2009), Senior Vice President, Skyroot Aerospace, for a talk during Orientation Week. This was just days after Skyroot Aero

101 Foundation partnered with The Department of Mathematics at IIT Guwahati to conduct the first edition of PRISM 2026, a six-week residential training programme in mathematics. The programme is built on a simple premise: that the way a professional mathematician thinks can be taught to teenagers. PRISM — the Programme for Research and Inquiry by Students in Mathematics — was designed to introduce school students to the habits of research mathematicians. Not textbook problem-