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Innovative & enterprising India by 2030
The Central Government ATL Community Day Every year ATL Community Day is celebrated on the
aims to make India a birth anniversary of Dr B R Ambedkar on April 14 where
high-skill, innovative and the Atal Tinkering Labs are not available. ATLs open up
their gates to the children from nearby non-ATL schools,
entrepreneurial country NGOs and local communities to tinker and innovate by
by 2030. For this, a target conducting open sessions on tinkering and innovation.
has been set to establish Unbox Tinkering In the last three years over 4 Lakh children got benefitted
Atal Tinkering Lab in 10,000
schools by March 2021. Out It is a teachers’ training programme for the ATLs.
of this, this unique lab has Selected school teachers are trained on the philosophy
been established in more of ATL and latest technology tools. So far more than
50,000 teachers have been trained
than 5,400 schools so far. Tinker Fest
For this, Rs 20 Lakh is given It is a festival of creativity and innovation for school
by the Central Government. children of classes 1 to 12. It is a two-day event where
Its success can be gauged students participate in competitions, exhibitions,
from the fact that more workshops and talks by eminent speakers
than 20 Lakh students
have access to this lab Tinkering Marathon It focuses on identifying a problem and developing
today, then about two and innovative solutions that align with the National Agenda
of creating a New India by 2022. It is open to all ATL
a half lakh children have schools across the country, which aspire to make a
made some innovations or difference and contribute to the school’s success in
prototypes through it becoming an Innovation Hub
Foundation. Remote Earth Sensing, Biological and Genetic
2018: The AIM-SIRIUS Innovation Festival Research, Clean Energy, Data analytics and
witnessed a delegation of ten Russian student Frontier Technologies, and Drones and Robotics
innovators and ten Indian innovators from the in December, 2019.
best performing Atal Tinkering Labs (ATLs) 2020: Taking inspiration from India’s
coming together for a four-day residential Aatmanirbhar Bharat and Russia’s Big Challenges,
innovation boot-camp at Department of Design AIM and SIRIUS devised World’s First Indo-Russia
in IIT-Delhi in October. Five teams addressing Bilateral Youth Innovation Program for school
challenges in five different focus areas -- space students. During this two-week collaboration
technology, healthcare, smart mobility, clean programme held between November 7 and 21,
energy and agricultural technology -- were 48 students, 16 educators and mentors created
showcased to Prime Minister Narendra Modi eight virtual products and mobile applications
and President of Russia Vladimir Putin. which will solve the new global challenges of the
2019: A delegation of 25 students and 5 teachers post-COVID era. This year’s cohort is selected
from India and 25 Russian students visited the from the pool of best Russian students from
SIRIUS Centre, Sochi, Russia for a seven-day SIRIUS Centre and the best Indian students and
research-based programme. Teams created ATL Incharges from the Top 150 teams of ATL
eight different innovations under focus areas -- Marathon 2019.
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