Vineeta Garg is Head of IT at SRDAV Public School in Delhi, India. Her work focuses on integrating Artificial Intelligence into education to promote inclusion, accessibility, and equitable learning opportunities across diverse student populations. She is the creator of EmpowerED with AI, an initiative that develops multilingual AI resources, accessible tools, and gamified learning platforms to enable students and teachers to understand, use, and create with AI.

The EmpowerED with AI initiative was born from the urgent need to make Artificial Intelligence education inclusive, equitable, and ethical. Garg recognised that AI learning opportunities were largely limited to elite students in metropolitan schools, while students in rural areas and those with special needs remained excluded. At the same time, urban learners – though exposed to AI – often lacked an understanding of ethical AI use and how to apply AI to solve real-world challenges.

EmpowerED with AI is a sustainable and scalable model for integrating AI into mainstream education while promoting inclusion and accessibility. Through curriculum integration, teacher training, and open-access resources, the initiative has empowered over 800,000 students and 12,000 teachers.

Her students have gone on to develop award-winning AI projects, including Dyslexiscan (ISTE+Intel AI Innovator Challenge 2024), a remote respiratory health screening model presented to Prime Minister Narendra Modi; and the Yellow Submarine, a high-level programming language that offers an easy way to learn complex areas like cybersecurity, speech processing, computer vision, NLP, machine learning, and deep learning.

With over 30 years of experience, Garg has led efforts to democratise coding and AI education, particularly for girls, learners with disabilities, and students from underprivileged and rural communities. She has co-authored AI handbooks for the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) in collaboration with Intel, IBM, and the 1M1B Foundation, and has developed Python and AI resources, Android applications, and accessibility tools. Her initiatives include Braille Python coding books and the Right to Write competition in Hindi and English for visually impaired students, now a national coding challenge encompassing Python programming, Prompt Engineering, and AI project development.

She also promotes Small Language Model (SLM) tools that function offline, extending AI learning to low-connectivity regions. Her students are designing AI-driven solutions in healthcare, accessibility, and environmental sustainability, transforming classrooms into inclusive, real-world learning environments.

Garg has collaborated with the Saksham Trust and the Prakramika Vocational Institute to deliver AI education for visually impaired and neurodivergent learners. She has conducted sessions with global organisations including Intel, Microsoft, and Adobe, mentoring educators to apply AI for social good. Her publications include 16 books and 24 articles on AI and ICT, and her instructional videos reach tens of thousands of viewers.

Garg’s leadership has been recognised with the National Teacher Award (2019), the Prime Minister’s Award (2017), the AI India Impact Award (2024), the 1M1B Generation AI@2047 Educators Award, and the Intel AI Innovative Practices Award (2023). She was recognised as a Fearless Female by the HRD Ministry on Women’s Day 2020.