Prasanth Nori

Prasanth has been thinking about creativity in classrooms since his Teach For India Fellowship in Hyderabad, where he saw first-hand that tinkering and making things were not extras; they were how real learning happened. That conviction has stayed with him through Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, MIT’s Playful Journey Lab, Scratch, and co-founding Upepo, a project-based learning platform for children. FleX is where that belief meets practice at a community scale.

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The idea was simple but uncommon. Instead of building a space just for educators to meet and talk, Prasanth designed it around a real outcome: getting the right learning experiences to under-resourced schools by connecting the people who make them with the schools that want them. They started by listening. On the supply side, they held in-depth conversations with social entrepreneurs from organisations such as Games For Ed, Inqui-lab Foundation, and Tvarita Arts Collective, going deep into what these organisations build and where they struggle to reach schools with fewer resources. On the demand side, they sat with school owners, principals, coordinators, teachers, and Students, running focus groups to understand what schools need and what Students enjoy.

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Getting there was not straightforward. Early on, people on both sides were not quite sure what FleX was; it was not a WhatsApp group, it was not a regular meetup, and the outcomes-focused structure felt unfamiliar. A community convening in Chennai early on helped open things up. Once everyone was clear on their role, with suppliers building custom experiences, schools offering time and space, and the child at the centre of all of it, the energy shifted. February felt different: more focused, more real. That shift, Prasanth says, only came with time, and that patience turned out to be part of the design. Whatever comes next, the foundation it has been built on, genuine listening, honest co-creation, and a stubborn belief in the child, is already something worth seeing.