Rote-based, didactic and uninspiring education in India has deprived over 250 million disadvantaged children of the tools to overcome poverty. Instead, it has produced education apathy, a high dropout rate and youth that lack skills and confidence, creative-thinking and problem-solving abilities. Most schools do not have labs. Opportunities for participative, hands-on learning that sparks curiosity, and stimulates and empowers children and teachers are almost non-existent. Teacher training is divorced from the realities of the school classroom. Seeing little value in education, rural parents prefer to send their children to work in farms, thus perpetuating a cycle of poverty. Operating one of the largest hands-on science education programs in the world, Agastya offers disadvantaged children access to dynamic hands-on education that makes learning fun, awakens curiosity, encourages questioning, enhances understanding, and fosters creative-thinking, problem-solving and communication skills. Agastya’s vision of ‘a creative India’ - ‘tinkerers, creators, and solution-seekers …humane, anchored and connected’ – is being achieved through its mission to spark the creative temper among millions of disadvantaged children. Using experiential and hands-on, child-centric learning, teacher education and scalable methods, Agastya aims to bring about a shift in five vital behaviors - ‘Yes to Why,’ ‘Looking to Observing,’ ‘Passiveness to Exploring,’ ‘Text-book to Hands-on,’ and ‘Fear to Confidence’.