The GenWise Summer Program
A residential program for gifted children on a MAHE campus — MAHE Manipal in May, MAHE Bengaluru in June — two tracks, Grades 6–11, where bright kids stop being the exception in the room and start being the room.
Free · 20 questions · 35 minutes
| Who | Gifted students in Grades 6–11 (their grade in 2027–28). GW Explorers: Grades 6–7. GW Wizards: Grades 8–11. |
|---|---|
| When and where | May program: 9–29 May 2027, MAHE Manipal. June program: 13 June–3 July 2027, MAHE Bengaluru. |
| How long | GW Wizards: all three weeks (21 days). GW Explorers: the last two weeks (16–29 May 2027 or 20 June–3 July 2027). |
| Fee | GW Explorers ₹1,20,000, GW Wizards ₹1,70,000 at the early-bird rate until 31 Dec 2026. After that, ₹1,60,000 and ₹2,10,000. GST included, and tuition, stay, food, care and materials are all in. |
| To hold a seat | A ₹40,000 deposit, fully refundable until 28 February 2027. The balance is due by 25 March 2027, and can be paid in instalments. |
| How to apply | Take the free Assessment first, or apply online in two minutes, with no essay and no application fee, and the program team calls you back. Or call +91 81238 77635. |
See it for yourself
Watch it
Students who lived it, on camera — three-minute journey films, and one-minute Humans of GenWise shorts shot at camp.
Humans of GenWise
Harsh, on finding clarity in Career Discovery
Palak, an aspiring biotechnology researcher
Neel, 16, on a place that kept up with him
Learning · social · safety
One course, taken seriously, for the full program — taught by mentors who do this for a living: working professors, researchers and practitioners, among them a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at IIT Bombay. No worksheets; the course ends in something your child made.
The part alumni talk about a decade later. Not the whole camp, your track: the Explorers or the Wizards you live and learn beside. Dorm-wing identity, evening rituals, and friendships that outlast the summer by years.
~1:5: one residential coach or teaching assistant for every five students, round the clock, as actually staffed at GSP'26. A nurse on site and doctors on call at both editions, Kasturba Hospital minutes away in May, and a daily parent update. The full spec sheet has its own page — read it line by line.
The work is the fun
The campus
Both are MAHE: two to a room, AC, attached bathrooms, A++ accredited, doctors on call, buses that carry nobody but us. The May edition adds Manipal's own draw — dorms and labs beside one of Asia's largest indoor sports complexes.
Tour both campuses
Morning
Wake up — beds made, wing sorted, laundry out
7:00 am
Wake up — beds made, wing sorted, laundry out
8:00 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Morning course block — your chosen deep-dive
11:00 am
Juice and a snack, then straight back into it
1:00 pm
Lunch
2:00 pm
Afternoon session until 4 pm — labs, builds, drafts, arguments
4:00 pm
Tea and snacks
5:00 pm
Evening activity — sport, quizzes, drawing, karaoke. A different one every day
7:00 pm
Dinner, then evening adda — and on weekend nights, DJ night or talent night
9:00 pm
Phone time: thirty minutes to call home
10:00 pm
Lights out
Two tracks
Same campus, same summer, the same mentors — pitched at two different stages.
Grades 6–7 · ages 10–13
Two weeks · 16–29 May 2027 or 20 June–3 July 2027
Their first time away, done gently: two weeks, both Explorers courses, the whole batch together. Last summer that meant tensegrity tables that stand on tension and circuits built from play dough — and many Explorers come back as Wizards.
See the Explorers coursesGrades 8–11 · ages 13–17
Three weeks · 9–29 May 2027 or 13 June–3 July 2027
Three weeks inside one course they chose, ending in something built and defended in front of the room: a policy brief that survives rebuttal, a model that survives evaluation, a building someone would actually live in.
See the Wizards coursesThe GenWise Summer Program is for Grades 6 to 11.
The courses
A Wizard picks one course and lives inside it; Explorers take two, one each week. ML models that must survive evaluation, policy briefs that must survive rebuttal, experiments that must be measured twice.
Browse the full catalog9–29 May 2027 and 13 June–3 July 2027. Pay ₹40,000 to hold a seat. Change your mind until 28 February 2027 and all of it comes back. Or ring us now on +91 81238 77635.
Before you decide
A few details, two minutes. Then ask us the hard questions: safety, food, phones, homesickness, whether your child will fit.
Free · 20 questions · 35 minutes. Pay ₹40,000 to hold a seat. Change your mind until 28 February 2027 and all of it comes back.
