(formerly Aura Auro Design) – LEARN, GROW, WORK, TEACH
Archana Shekar who conducts ten days residential Vipassana retreats, children’s meditation courses and is in charge of it for Karnataka state. After completing her Masters at IITKGB and MBA at XLRI she worked with Price Waterhouse, Synovate and also wrote for Hong...
Read out all~Poovizhi, Abilash Yesterday we had STEM land meeting with all the coordinators of different STEM land and STEM land math teachers. Sundar presented a scratch program for fraction. Later we were all given small booklets by Azim Premji University on each topic...
Read out all~Poovizhi, Murali and Arun This week it was a large group of people in the meeting. Coordinators from Aikiyam, Udavi, Isai ambalam and AITI joined the meeting. Swati Sircar joined the meeting online. At first Sundar demonstrated Scratch projects on finding LCM...
Read out all~ Murali and Poovizhi Sundar (Udavi school STEM land coordinator) gave a demonstration on learning Algebra using weighing scale. He used few sketch pens and weighing cubes (1gm) . For example one side had 10 grams and the other side had 5...
Read out all~Poovizhi, Saranya There were around 20 kids from 6th std above. Thamarai facilitators said that they wanted to teach mathematics using materials. To start with basics we used Dienes block to visualize the arithmetic operations. Children learnt about cube, rod and plate...
Read out all~Poovizhi, Prabha, Arun STEM land is being scaled to different schools in and around Auroville. We had a meeting with all the STEM land coordinators from Isai ambalam school, Udavi school, Thamarai night school, Auroville ITI, TLC and Aikiyam school. We shared...
Read out allPoovizhi, Murali and Saranya As explained in the previous blog https://www.auraauro.com/uncategorized/2017-2018-batch-childrens-reflection-on-stem-land/ We did a research on how children use or retain what they learn in STEM land. We conducted a survey in the following methodology a) a group sharing of the alumni...
Read out all2017 – 2018 batch children from Udavi had a get together. We’ve planned to meet them and have a conversation on how STEM land was useful for them and what they feel about STEM land. Children were in their summer holidays and...
Read out allWe started the program with the morning session where the participants were exposed to learn who they are and to learn why they do what they do. Participants came up with insights such as I learned about my stand and my fear....
Read out all-Poovizhi and Saranya Vimal has completed B.E Mechanical Engineering and has experience in various profiles as execultive operations, Engineering maintenance, deputy manager- management systems, quality control in a glass container company 12 years. Presently with Redshade Robotics as a mentor cum trainer...
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