About Innovation & Tinker Lab (ITL)
- ITL is a concept lab that provides school students a space where they learn and innovate using technology and other resources.
- Helps to imbibe and foster 21st century skills. Existing school teachers to be empowered to use the resources and conduct sessions for students.
- ITL to help children to enhance their critical & lateral thinking, to be creative, to solve real life problems and fill in the gaps with their innovative ideas.
- ITL contains educational equipments like a 3D printer, Robotic kit with sensors, open source ARM-based embedded system, software programming languages to develop games, animations, mobile apps, artificial intelligence & Machine learning.
- 11 Tinker Labs have been installed in Bangalore, 5 Tinker Labs in Pune and 4 Tinker Labs in Thane.
Objectives of ITL
- To provide technology integrated learning space to children
- To help children imagine, conceptualize and create
- To nurture computational skills, design thinking, problem solving, physical computing and adaptive learning.
Why ITL?
- Age specific curriculum
- Teacher Capacity Building
- Aligned with Atal Tinkering Lab and NEP 2020
- The basic concepts introduced to students are the basics of coding.
Currently, Samarthanam has supported 20 schools across Bengaluru for the Innovation and Tinker Lab.
Topics Covered
- Loops with scart
- Drawing garden with loops
- Spelling bee
- Programming with harvest
- Collecting treasure with laurel
- Ocean scene with loops
- Maze sequence
- Artist loops
- Introduction to micro bit
- Showing heart symbol and name on micro bit
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