ATL & Robotics Lab

Introduction

With a vision to ‘Cultivate one Million children in India as Neoteric Innovators’, Atal Innovation Mission is establishing Atal Tinkering Laboratories (ATLs) in schools across India. The objective of this scheme is to foster curiosity, creativity, and imagination in young minds, and to inculcate skills such as design mindset, computational thinking, adaptive learning, physical computing, etc.

ATL is a workspace where young minds can give shape to their ideas through hands-on do-it-yourself mode, and learn innovation skills. Young children will get a chance to work with tools and equipment to understand the concepts of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math). ATL would contain educational and learning ‘do it yourself’ kits and equipment on science, electronics, robotics, open-source microcontroller boards, sensors, 3D printers and computers. Other desirable facilities include meeting rooms and a video conferencing facility.

In order to foster inventiveness among students, ATL conducts different activities ranging from regional and national level competitions, exhibitions, workshops on problem solving, designing and fabrication of products, lecture series, etc., at periodic intervals.

ATL Objectives

• To create workspaces where young minds can learn innovation skills, sculpt ideas through hands-on activities, and work and learn in a flexible environment.
• To empower our youth with the 21st-century skills of creativity, innovation, critical thinking, design thinking, social and cross-cultural collaboration, ethical leadership and so on.
• To help build innovative solutions for India’s unique problems and thereby support India’s efforts to grow as a knowledge economy.

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