Team SKYRA took home top honours at Change Mechanics’ League of Launchers AI bootcamp, an eight-week program delivered in partnership with S&P Global that concluded with a high-energy Demo Day where participants pitched their minimum viable products to industry judges. SKYRA’s winning product, Bloom, offers contactless health screening and monitoring specifically designed for schools, addressing a gap in student wellness infrastructure that has historically relied on manual, contact-based health checks. The team, led by Kiran Waqar, Shamaiem Shabbir, and Maryam Sheraz, secured the top prize of Rs100,000 along with continued mentorship support from the programme’s organizers.
Bloom enables schools to conduct faster, safer health checks without physical contact, making student wellness monitoring more accessible and efficient for institutions that may otherwise lack the staffing or resources to run regular manual screenings. The solution represents the kind of practical, impact-driven innovation the bootcamp specifically aimed to cultivate, focusing on tangible problems within Pakistan’s education sector rather than purely abstract technical demonstrations. Change Mechanics equipped bootcamp participants with hands-on training and one-on-one mentorship from industry experts throughout the eight weeks, giving teams sustained guidance as they moved from initial concept toward a functioning product ready for the Demo Day pitch.
Knowledge partners including Google Developers Group Islamabad, GDG Cloud, and Canva Community Islamabad provided technical depth across cloud technologies, development best practices, and design thinking throughout the programme. This collaborative approach ensured participants received multidisciplinary guidance while building their MVPs from concept to launch, combining technical infrastructure knowledge with design and product development skills that many early-stage founders lack when entering a bootcamp of this kind. The League of Launchers program reflects a deliberate strategy to accelerate Pakistan’s startup ecosystem by reducing the time between ideation and market-ready products, with participants emerging not just with functional prototypes but also with validated business models and access to industry networks.
Change Mechanics, the Managing Partner for the National Incubation Center Islamabad and Faisalabad plus the WISE Lab, continues driving entrepreneurship across Pakistan’s startup landscape through programmes like League of Launchers. Bloom’s focus on school health demonstrates how AI solutions can address real-world challenges within Pakistan’s education sector specifically, and the organization said seeing products like Bloom validates the bootcamp’s underlying mission of translating structured mentorship and technical training into practical, deployable solutions. Whether SKYRA’s Bloom moves beyond its Demo Day pitch into an actual pilot deployment at Pakistani schools will likely depend on how effectively the team builds on the continued mentorship support secured alongside its prize money, following a path similar to other National Incubation Center-linked startups that have used early bootcamp wins as a springboard toward pilot partnerships and further funding rounds.
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