Inauguration STEM Land @ Isai Ambalam – Overview

• We had the inauguration of STEM Land at Isai-Ambalam School on the 1^st of March at 10:30 a.m.
• We had friends and our community members and the 9^th Graders from Udavi School who came to visit and participate at the inauguration.
• Then, we all delivered speech on what we want to see and our experience with STEM Land.

After the children demonstrated and interacted with the visitors by

• Playing strategic games and puzzles.
• Explaining and demonstrating Montessori materials by the young children.
• Explaining and demonstrating their electronic and science projects.

List of projects / area which the children had demonstrated for the inauguration.

• Ayush -(Aravind Gupta Toys) was able to explain and demonstrate that “Moving magnet produces electricity” and “Cast Puzzle”.
• Ganapathy,Vasanth Kumar and Sabari were able to build a “Buzzer Game” by themselves and played it with the visitors.

• Abarna was able to use Geo Board and demonstrate the area of rectangle and square.

• Suresh was able to show conducting and non-conducting materials using an electronic project and he was able to build a “Bubble Blower” by himslef.
• Gowtham and Yuvasri were able to build a circuit which lights up an LED using a switch in the breadboard.
• Keerthana,Swetha,Kishore and Bala played Dobble,Pylos,Abalone and Othello with the visitors and 9^th.
• The 4^th Grade children did a “Welcome board decorated with LEDs”.
• Prabha was able to demonstrate his project – he had built a “Robot” and was able to communicate with it using blue-tooth from a mobile phone and rotate its motors.
• The 7^th Grade demonstrated – Equations using Deines block(Montessori material).
• The 9th Graders from Udavi School also demonstrated and explained how to play Kabaleo , Othello and Rubiks Cube.

My Speech:

• Its a new experience for us to work with the young children(i.e 4th – 7th Grade).
• We use Montessori materials to learn math and we also do hands on work(Aravind Gupta Science Toys) to learn some of the  concepts in science class.
• The children have the courage to create their own science and electronics projects .
• They are also creative and interested in doing hands on work.
• The children here are responsible for their learning and as well as for the materials in STEM Land.