A innovative way to learn and teach free software involved 169 students from public schools in Kerala, who participated in a festival organised by IT@School Project, government of Kerala and the Technopark, in January 2010. The students were assessed on their IT skills through a series of  competitions based on the free software platform. They presented their projects using various IT tools like movies, graphics and web applications.

Education Minister M.A. Baby, Unesco Education Programme Specialist for South Asia Cecilia Barbieri, M.A. Vahid, MLA, Director of Public Instruction Mohammed Hanish, United Nations ICT for Development Community resource person Rajen Varada and IT for Change director Gurumurthy Kasinathan were present at the function in which IT awards for schools were distributed. The Hindu covered the event.