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A Year with Electric Cycle in Auroville Reflections on My Daily Routine

~ Durai It’s been a year now since I made the switch to an electric cycle, and I must say, it has been a wonderful experience. I used to commute from Alankuppam to Stemland at Udavi on my motorbike, but the long...

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Fruits and vegetables drawing

~Santhosh and Sandhiya Drawing is a process that all children naturally engage in, from the time they first discover they can hold a crayon. I have collaborated with English Teacher, she was teaching spelling of fruits and vegetables for 3rd grade.She said...

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Dobble: A Fun Memory Game with 3-Year-Old

~Durai I always enjoy finding fun and educational activities to do with my 3-year-old. Recently, we discovered Dobble, a memory game that has become one of our favorite pastimes. In this blog, I’ll share my experience playing Dobble at Udavi STEMland in...

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Dynamo-LED based cycle safety light

Sanjay & Pratap This is the second post in the series of building more practical circuit applications that children can use in their daily life and show their friends and family. The first post was here, Cycle Safety light – C3STREAM Land...

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Annual reflection Insights

~Poovizhi, Meganathan, Durai, Sandhiya Annual reflection Insights Saranya had posted some insights from having reviewed our year with the annual reflection and review form. Once all the seniors had filled out the forms we made the review a workshop of sorts where...

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Super magic Hexagon for Trigonometric identities Tricks

~ Durai, Kugan The super hexagon is a special diagram that helps the children to remember all the trigonometric identities and trigonometric functions visually [also requires memory]. How to draw the super hexogen Draw the hexagon and we need to join all the...

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English Class

~Sandhiya, Prabha As part of the continued learning program at STEM land, we took two courses “Grammatically correct English: writing and speaking” and “Advanced English course” along with other teachers and staff of SAIIER.  Sessions were held twice a week from 4:00...

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The more work I have, the easier it is to find time to meditate and exercise

~ Sanjay Tumati There used to be a time when I used to consider having too much work, a valid reason for not finding time to meditate. Isn’t that what you hear all the time? It’s what I hear all the time....

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Ardiuno Projects

~ Sivaraman Arduino projects are done for the learning of embedded systems programming. In simple terms, this supports make projects that are programmable yet interact with the real world. These games were programmed in C language, which can also be written with...

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Insights from One Straw Revolution

Rajesh As part of the Becoming and Being a Shifu program we have time put aside for reading books. I read the One Straw Revolution. After reading the book, the first thing that I noticed is how I can think differently about...

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