Before – After Images of iSmart Classroom
– Bala Anand During construction: The lab in iSmart classroom Work space getting its false ceiling done: After completion of work: -Sundar
Read out allEvening at iSmart class and sleep over at Udavi
The day before the inauguration of the iSmart class room we had a combined class with two school children the 6th and 7th from Isaiambalam and the 9th graders from Udavi school. The evening started with a circle and introduction of each...
Read out allSTEM land Walkthrough
It was a combined class with the 7th and 9th graders. I observed that everyone were engaged and were working with their peers and facilitators. I decided to take a short video of whats happening.
Read out allSpinner: MIT app inventor
A child from 7th grade made a spinner using MIT app inventor. He took 3 weeks to complete the project. MIT app Inventor: It is an application where you can make mobile app. It is similar to scratch where you can stick...
Read out allRouting Ethernet Cables
The 9th grader at Udavi volunteered to paint the new Ismart class room that is being built in the factory side of the Udavi school campus. Which joins along with the Aura Auro Design Lab. The new space required LAN connectivity. The...
Read out allVisitors to STEM Land
We usually have visitors to STEM Land and this week around 20 trainees of the Puchki program(trains teachers to take up environmental aspects) in Auroville had come to STEM Land. They were so excited to see what the children were doing in...
Read out allVaughn Cube
During Maths class children were having difficulty in telling tables quickly. Our children were able to tell tables in order but it was difficult when it was random. So we started using Vaughn cube. Vaughn cube is a set of videos which...
Read out allEngfmt(Engineering Format) Documentation
Link : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/engfmt/1.1.0 engfmt – It is a package used to read and write numbers in engineering format. In engineering format a number generally includes the units if available and uses SI scale factors to indicate the magnitude of the number. For...
Read out allStory of minus into minus is plus & programming for the same
Children from 8th were learning algebra and had difficulties with the sign operations. They were able to come up with stories of multiplying minus into plus, plus into minus and plus into plus but they couldn’t come up with a story of...
Read out allHow to compress image size in Ubuntu
1. Open the terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T). 2. Install imagemagick by sudo apt-get install imagemagick 2. Go to the directory of the folder in which you want to reduce the image size. 3. Then type the following command mogrify -resize...
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