(formerly Aura Auro Design) – LEARN, GROW, WORK, TEACH
Homi Bhabha Centre – Pratap We attended a conference and also presented a poster at epiSTEME7 conference in HBCSE (Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education) at Mumbai. It was an international conference held from Jan 5th to 8th 2018. Many people from...
Read out allSTEM Land Newsletter Volume-1, Oct-Dec 2017 STEM (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics) Land STEM Land are resource centres located in Udavi school and Isai Ambalam school, two outreach schools of Auroville. Children come to STEM Land for Math and science classes and even...
Read out allIsai Ambalam school celebrated Christmas on 22/12/17. The prayer hall was decorated with lights, candles and Christmas tree. Gifts were wrapped for the children. There were also delicious cakes which Anita made along with the children. Christmas stories were told to the...
Read out allSankith from Asha (One of our funder) visited STEM land. He visited both centres Isaiambalam and Udavi. Children were very excited to show what they have learnt in STEM land. They also showed their projects. Sanketh’s Reflections on visiting STEM Land 1245_Site_visit_2017
Read out allIn Isai Ambalam school started doing a EBD (Education by design) on birds and animals house. Children from 1st and 2nd standard got the materials from Pondy. They saw some videos in Internet about the animals house. How do animals live in...
Read out allThe Ashram Trustees visited STEM land and iSmart Classroom on 20/12/17. They interacted with the children and were exploring different things the children were doing. The children showed them the projects that they had made, 3D printed modules, Rubiks cube in STEM...
Read out allPranav (who left Google) to volunteer with us for 4 months generated interest in children to work on mobile apps. Children in STEM land have created mobile applications on MIT app inventor. Children felt easy to buit an app by coding as...
Read out allThe pond that we built with children got a crack. We were figuring out how the crack came. There was a banyan tree which was near the pond. We asked a mason how this crack has formed. Then finally he told it...
Read out allI decided to use the Ganit Rack for addition and subtraction with the 3rd grade children as they had some difficulty in seeing patterns in numbers. Two of the not so engaging children were very much engaged when they were doing additions...
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