A tech hub for beautiful young minds

The winning idea
Buckets Engineer is a computer-aided platform that hosts apps designed to develop skills in autistic children. This tool will be used by therapists, parents and teachers, who will be provided a list of apps catering to a child's needs.  All apps will follow a unified scoring system that track the child's progress. This tool will also be open to developers to create the actual apps.

Who's it for?
Their target market is the 1.5 million autistic children in Bangladesh. Potential clients are parents of the children and organizations geared towards the development of autism in Bangladesh. Eventually, they aim to integrate this project within standard schools throughout Bangladesh.

Money matters
Buckets Engineer is a subscription-based education platform. So besides subscription fees, it will generate revenue from app purchases, publications, and government funding.

By the next 6 months…
Buckets Engineer plans to have at least 2-3 complete applications ready for launch and evaluation in the school they currently work alongside. Their Seattle-based trainer, Knowledge for Autism, will train 10 teachers and 10 therapists around Dhaka with more equipped methodologies.

Promising beginnings
Buckets Engineer was entered in Dell's Education Innovation Challenge back in 2013. It was one of the top 50 semi-finalists out of 800 global projects worldwide. From there, Buckets got connected to Startup Dhaka.
 
The one thing that hurts
Commitment by others. There have been so many people who had been very promising in the beginning but did not follow through, which caused a lot of difficulties and delayed Buckets' plans. “You need to be able to balance the level of optimism with the importance of being realistic.”

Where the magic happens
Buckets Engineer is imaginative when it comes to the workplace. “Every coffee shop is our ideating hub.” They choose places where they can share, discuss and work on ideas. For the data collecting and analyzing phase, this is a perfect solution.