Atal Tinkering Lab

Atal Tinkering Lab" Atal Tinkering Lab is a central government school initiative to modernize India by inculcating scientific spirit and creativity in students and making them skilled and technologists for the 21st century. Atal Tinkering Lab is a working space where students of classes 6 to 10 integrate science and technology and make inventions through games. Atal Tinkering Lab consists of science, electronics & robotics kits with self-powered learning devices and independent microcontroller boards, sensors, 3D printers and computers. Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) has been established by the Government of India through NITI Aayog with the aim of producing one million scientists by 2020. They are the ones who implement Tinkering Labs. These labs are known as Atal Tinkering Labs in honor of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Bajpayee.

The advantages

• A space for children to shape their innovative ideas with their own hands.
• An opportunity to learn the fundamentals of science, technology, engineering, electronics, robotics and mathematics in
• Equipment handling training.
• Learning that goes beyond the textbook through experiments and explorations and the study of innovative technologies.
• Opportunity to develop the skills of planning, analyzing, formulating and finding answers.
• A situation where children's creativity, curiosity, creativity, imagination etc. grow faster through self-activities. A lab that creates a generation of technologists with 21st century skills such as design, critical thinking, computational thinking, digital fabrication and collaboration. 

Activities

• Regular training by expert engineers
• Workshops
• School Level and Zonal Level Competitions
• Exhibitions
• Atal Tinkering Club Activities