NE EDUCATION BUREAU
COIMBATORE, APRIL 25
Bharathiyar University Vice Chancellor Kaliraj inaugurated the ‘Atal Tinkering Lab’ (ATL), which aims to enhance creativity and research potential of rural students, at Isha Vidhya School in Coimbatore on Sunday.
The laboratory, a flagship initiative of the Atal Innovation Mission of the Government of India under NITI Aayog, aims to make science exciting for students and cultivate interest, creativity and imagination in their minds. It is designed as a platform to understand science, technology, robotics, physics, mathematics and engineering and explore new avenues in these streams. More than a thousand rural students studying in Isha Vidhya, Coimbatore, will benefit from the lab.
Excited students and their parents visited the laboratory soon after its doors were opened.
The laboratories are set up in select schools across India with financial assistance from the Central Government and mentored by Unit of Science and Educational Development (UNISED)-IIT, Kanpur.
