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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