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Simple Burglar Alarm

Prabhakaran 7th grade student from Isai-Ambalam school.He comes to Stem land on every Saturday and works on his own doing soldering and tinkering some electronics kit. He made this burglar alarm by himself with a buzzer,clip and a battery. Then he demonstarted...

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A video on STEM land

This is a video on STEM land which includes all children’s activity. In fact this short video is not enough to tell about the children’s work and their passion towards STEM land. The video speaks more than I do. Take a look at...

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Triad @ School

I had triad with 3 groups today. I was really inspired and happy to hear them share their practices. They had noticed when they were in fear and how they overcame it. They were also able to notice when people talked about...

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Installing Scratch on a 64x machine & creating desktop icon. (Ubuntu)

The following instruction can be used to install scratch in a 64x machine.   Download the Adobe Air and Scratch files from: https://scratch.mit.edu/scratch2download/ The following libraries are needed: sudo apt-get install libxt6:i386 libnspr4-0d:i386 libgtk2.0-0:i386 libstdc++6:i386 libnss3-1d:i386 lib32nss-mdns libxml2:i386 libxslt1.1:i386 libcanberra-gtk-module:i386 gtk2-engines-murrine:i386 Now...

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Sleep Over at Isaiambalam School

The Team had a wonderful evening filled with strategy games and puzzles at isaimbalam school. The 5th graders had a sleep over which ended with a English movies (cartoon). The evening started with a bonfire, then came the puzzles and games. The...

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Sourcing Our Oneness @ Nainital

All of us went to a workshop/learning space to Nainital. The workshop was called ‘Sourcing Our Oneness’. All large number of people from Auroville, Sri Aurobindo Society and from The Ashram attended it. Personally I enjoyed the time there. I got to...

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Deepanam Children assembling their LED torchlight’s.

The children from Deepanam, on their last day in term 1 built bamboo torchlight’s using high wattage LEDS, resistors and a DPDT switch and a 9V battery. They designed the circuit and chose the required resistors and assembled them by soldering the...

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STEM Land’s first birthday celebration

We celebrated STEM Land’s first (belated) birthday on 22 October 2016 (we started STEM Land on 8th October 2015) with the children and friends from Auroville. Over a 100 adults and children joined us for the celebration. Teachers and students from AIAT (Auroville...

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Angle Bisector and Perpendicular Bisector

Following is a scratch project done showing how to draw an angle bisector of a given angle, by Barani a student from Udavi school.

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Stewardship workshop for the teachers

We did the Stewardship for New Emergence workshop for the teachers of Babaji Vidyashram School, Chennai and for the teachers who visited Auroville from the North. The tools we introduced were Stand, fear and deep listening. We did 4 profiles also at...

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