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Inventure Academy is a private coeducational International School in Bangalore, India. It is located on the Whitefield-Sarjapura road on the Eastern periphery of Bangalore city and has a campus of over 20 acres.
Established by the India Learning Foundation in 2005, Inventure Academy offers Kindergarten to Senior Secondary (Pre K - Grade 12) education, and is affiliated to the Cambridge Assessment International Education (CAIE) – IGCSE, A/AS levels, and the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination (CISCE) – ICSE & ISC.
The board of founding trustees is made of the chairman and co-founder of Inventure Academy, Irfan Razack, who is also the managing director of the Prestige Group, a property development company in South India, and a Honorary Secretary of the Al-Ameen Educational Society.
The Managing Trustee, CEO, and Co-Founder of Inventure Academy, Ms. Nooraine Fazal, worked with global giants like Reuters and IBM across places like Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sydney, and Hong Kong for ten years before coming back to India to co-found Inventure Academy. [1] She is one of the core members of Bangalore Political Action Committee (B.PAC) along with Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw and Mohandas Pai.[2]
In addition to the Board of Trustees, the school’s management team comprises the founders and senior members - Preet Benjamin Aarons (Head of Primary School) and Varsha Saxena (Head of Administration and Finance).
In addition to classroom courses, the curriculum includes Field Trips, Workshops and Guest Lectures in the fields of Leadership, Sustainable Technology, Climate Change, and Career Counseling, among others. Inventure Academy also encourages Theater as part of the School’s Curriculum.
Students of Inventure Academy have had Guest Lectures from personalities like Kapil Dev, Madhav Das Nalapat, Zai Whitaker, Gerry Martin and Srikanth Nadhamuni, and have gone on trips to Lalbagh, a gasification plant, Foundation for the Revitalization of Local Health Traditions and the Indian Institute of Science.
In April 2013, the 9-year-olds of Inventure Academy raised funds to adopt a tiger at the Bannerghatta National Park.[3]
Inventure Academy also has a concept called "Inventuring", where the first week of a new school year is spent by all students and faculty doing multiple activities (e.g. building a climbing wall, creating wooden benches for the school park, etc.) which fosters bonding amongst the new batch.
Inventure Academy is an active supporter of the Model United Nations (MUN) platform and its students have been active participants in such events.[4]
