Little KITEs’ IT Club is an unique initiative of KITE, which feature over 1 lakh student members. The Hi-School Kuttikootam programme, which was part of the Public Education Rejuvenation Mission of the State Government, through which students were given intense training in 5 areas such as Animation, Cyber Safety, Malayalam Computing, Hardware and Electronics, has been structurally upgraded in Student Police Cadets model, thus becoming ‘Little KITEs IT Club’. Little KITEs is set to become the largest Student IT Network in the Country. Hon. Chief Minister, Shri. Pinarayi Vijayan has launched this unique initiative on 22nd January 2018 at Thiruvananathapuram. In addition to the already identified 5 Core areas, more topics have been added such as Development of Mobile Apps, Programming, Robotics, E-Commerce, E-Governance, Video Documentation, Web TV etc to the activity bouquet of 'Little KITEs`.
1. To hone students’ interest in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and create a culture for the appropriate usage of technology.
2. To help students learn the different dimensions of ICT tools and use them in their learning activities.
3. To ensure the participation of students in the usage and upkeep of ICT equipment at schools, thereby increasing the ownership and productivity in ICT enabled learning.
4. To introduce students to innovative technologies such as IoT, AI, Robotics, 3D Animation, multimedia, language computing, electronics, mobile app development and the like.
5. To enrich students’ understanding of safe internet usage and Cybersecurity, and also to inculcate the importance of language computing.