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Understanding Motors; Bubble Gadget

The 6th std from Udavi,  Had couple of motors in their equipment stock. They were eager on biasing them. It started with removing the gear from the motor and setting a flan blade to it. The children noticed that wind was only...

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Building structures with the 5th and 6th graders

Along with the students of Udavi school, we together were exploring shapes. They used the straws to build their shape with the constraints provided. Using 12 equal straws, and to build 8 equal squares Using 6 equal straws, and build 4 equal...

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Savarirayulu Government School visit to StemLand

Mrs. Hemavathi ( the principal of Savarirayulu govt. girls high school) had visited us a few weeks back and spent a day at STEMland talking to children and seeing their work. Hemavathi is the general secretary of the Pondicherry Science Forum and...

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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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2015/16 9th grade daily plan @ STEMland

9thPlan – 2015/16 Last year 2015/16 we asked the children to fill out their daily plan on an excel sheet. The above link downloads the excel. This year 2016/17 the children are making weekly plans and not daily plans!

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Change multiple file extensions using Command Prompt

You can change multiple file extensions using command line. I had 20 odd xlsx files which I want to change as csv files. You can use this command:  ren *.xlsx *.csv Step 1: Change to directory you want to change the file extensions....

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Matplotlib Animation – calling animation from a function

Creating Animation in Matplotlib: #—————————————————————————— # ANIMATION- DYNAMIC PLOTS #—————————————————————————— import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import matplotlib.animation as animation from matplotlib.figure import Figure import time def animated_plot(): def data_gen(t=0): “”” Generator – generating data to plot the graph “”” cnt = 0 while...

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Rubik’s Cube – The viral in StemLand

We started to build the robot to solve rubik’s cube with python as platform in the STEM land. At that time Yuvaraj (8th grader) wanted to solve it. He searched for the algorithm to solve rubik’s cube. It took him 3 classes to solve the...

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Internship at Aura semiconductors, Bangalore

We spent two weeks as interns at Aura semiconductors, Bangalore. Staying, food and travel was taken care by Aura. Things that I noticed differently: I saw people working for a long time from 10 to 13 hours a day. They worked very...

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Setting up ev3dev for Mindstorms

In the beginning we used LEGO software ( like scratch – stitch commands together)  to program the Mindstorm Robot. Now we switched to Python. Let see how to set  it up. All we need is SD card (2GB-32GB) Need to create ev3...

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