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After Pongal (Harvesting festival) holidays children were back to school wearing their Pongal dress. They came to STEM Land for their math class . During the circle time we announced that we have got new games to STEM Land. Children were eager to...
Read out allHomi 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 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 allIn Isai Ambalam school 2nd graders had a difficulty in finding the pattern. When I use Dienes blocks and jodo cubes to identify the patterns. I asked the children to arrange the cubes in different orders that they have seen it in...
Read out allJanani and Vishal made a homopolar motor. Janani got excited when she saw this experiment online and she wanted to build one on her own. Making: Materials needed: 1*AA battery, 3*neodymium magnet, Coper wire of length30cm. Step 1: Place the three magnets...
Read out allIn Isai Ambalam school for one week there was no water. The bore water didn’t work. We started having a conversation how to over come this problem. During that week it rained a lot. Since it is a slope the water didn’t...
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