Events

We at Atal Tinkering Lab in Millennium National School celebrated community day's on 16th & 17th April 2019. On these days we had given access to nearby community students to Atal Tinkering Lab. Days flow was as follows,

1. Introduction to ATL - Purpose, Meaning & working of ATL.

2. Introduction of Innovation Process with the help of videos followed by group discussion.

3. Actual hands on experience of hand tools, Power tools. Followed by

4. Hands on activities to inculcate scientific temperament & in-turn seeding innovation sparks.

The objectives of the workshop were to equip teachers to provide first level mentoring for student projects.

As the student ideas can be diverse and not necessarily overlapping teacher's domain of expertise, the best a teacher can do is participate with the student in discovering the solution to the problem. A design thinking process helps the teacher take the project forward in a constructive way.

The process involves observation, ideation, designing and prototyping and multiple iterations. The teachers actually solved a problem by modelling and then using rapid protyping tools to test and improve upon the model

Students had been working on their ideas in the tinkering lab for the whole year. For some, ideas were converted into a prototype. Many such groups presented their stories and showcased their prototypes to their classmates in the science week (25th Feb. to 1st March 2019)