This workshop took place from July – August 2013. We visited a range of schools (high and low performing public and private schools), NGOs and the entrepreneurs driving school reform in Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. We worked with Indian students in different schools to find out what reforms are needed, and which programs are working. We traveled from Bangalore, the capital of Karnataka and the hub for IT India, to coastal, historical Kochi, a city that is rapidly growing. We visited Munnar, a beautiful spot high in the Western Ghats, before descending into the heat and bustle of Tamil Nadu. Our visit to Madurai, the seat of ancient Tamil learning and an emerging city in Tamil Nadu, was the heart of the trip. Our group joined a small group of 10 Indian students from Vidiyal, an educational NGO that works with underprivileged children in Madurai, to imagine, design and test several lesson plans for supplementary after-school curricula to meet gaps in education. This opportunity to work together across a very real language barrier was incredibly rewarding! We concluded our workshop with a visit to the UNESCO World Heritage site sea temples, built in the seventh century, in Mahaballipuram, outside of Chennai. In an idyllic seaside location, we had the opportunity to reflect on what we had learned, and begin to develop our story-telling project that would bring it all home.