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KidZania ties up with adidas where kids can design
MUMBAI: KidZania has tied up with adidas for an exciting and fun-learning “#adidiasbyme” activity this summer at KidZania in Delhi NCR & Mumbai.
KidZania is a global indoor theme park that inspires, educates & empowers children, helping them understand & manage their world better, and with adidas is a leading sportswear innovator.
Every kid is unique, has their own style, and a story to tell. Kids can now be the Chief Shoe Designer – where kids get to create one of the best model of adidas shoe by designing their own patterns, choosing colours and even customizing the shoe with their name; and build their own shoe-story at KidZania.
KidZania invites all young Creators, engineers, makers, dreaming designers and innovators to reinvent footwear design. The #adidasbyme initiative will run across the summer vacation period at KidZania in Delhi NCR & Mumbai.
Visit KidZania Delhi NCR & KidZania Mumbai, unleash your creativity by painting and customizing your own shoe at the #adidasbyme event and submit your entries. The winner gets his/her shoe creation turn into reality by adidas and also wins gift vouchers from adidas & KidZania. The winning shoe will also be displayed at KidZania and at select adidas stores.
What’s more – Kids across India can also be a part of this campaign. They can simply visit KidZania India website to participate and submit their entries.
KidZania India CMO Viraj Jit Singh said, “KidZania empowers children with life skills through real-life role-plays experiences that introduces them to different industries and the world of work. The experience at KidZania ignites curiosity and imagination. This essence of the KidZania experience comes alive with our unique partnership with adidas India for the #adidasbyme initiative where children get a chance explore their creativity and design their own shoe. adidas connects the experience to the real world by manufacturing the shoe designed by and for one lucky winner.
adidas India senior marketing director Sean van Wyk said, “Young athletes are the best source of creativity and this activity will give kids a chance to design & reinvent their favourite shoe. adidas understands the power of open-source and we strive to unleash creativity through the #adidasbyme contest. We want the kids to see themselves as the Creators and bring the winning designs to life.”
#adidasbyme KidZania event dates:
· KidZania Mumbai: Started, till June 13th 2017
· KidZania Delhi NCR: Started, till June 30th 2017
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Samsung certifies 1,000 Maharashtra students in AI and coding
The South Korean electronics giant marks its first large-scale skilling push in the state, with women making up nearly half the national programme’s enrolment
PUNE: Samsung has put 1,000 students in Maharashtra through a certified training programme in artificial intelligence and coding, the largest such drive the South Korean electronics company has run in the state and a signal that corporate India’s skilling ambitions are moving well beyond the boardroom brochure.
The certifications were awarded under Samsung Innovation Campus (SIC), the company’s flagship corporate social responsibility programme, which launched in India in 2022 with the stated aim of democratising access to future-technology education. The 1,000 graduates were drawn from four institutions: 127 from Savitribai Phule Pune University, 373 from Pimpri Chinchwad University, 250 from D.Y. Patil University’s Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology and 250 from Anjuman-I-Islam’s Kalsekar Technical Campus. All completed training in either AI or coding and programming, the two disciplines Samsung has identified as the critical pillars of the digital economy.
The programme does not stop at technical training. Soft-skills development and career-readiness modules are baked into the curriculum, a deliberate attempt to close the gap between what universities teach and what employers actually want.
“India’s digital growth story will ultimately be shaped by the quality of its talent pipeline,” said Shubham Mukherjee, head of CSR and corporate communications at Samsung Southwest Asia. “As technologies like AI move from the periphery to the core of industries, skilling must evolve from basic training to building real-world capability. This milestone in Maharashtra reflects how industry and academia can come together to create a future-ready workforce that is both globally competitive and locally relevant.”
The Maharashtra drive sits within a rapidly scaling national effort. Samsung Innovation Campus trained 20,000 young people across India in 2025, hitting its stated target for the year. Women account for 48 per cent of national enrolments, a figure the company cites as evidence of its push for an inclusive technology ecosystem. The programme is implemented in partnership with the Electronics Sector Skills Council of India and the Telecom Sector Skill Council.
Samsung, which is marking 30 years in India this year, runs SIC alongside two other initiatives, Samsung Solve for Tomorrow and Samsung DOST, as part of a broader effort to build what it calls a generation of innovators with both the technical depth and the problem-solving mindset to thrive in a fast-moving digital world.
A thousand certified students is a tidy headline. Whether they find jobs that match their new skills is the harder question, and the one that will ultimately determine whether corporate skilling programmes like this one are genuine pipelines or well-photographed gestures.
