Atal Innovation Mission at iLEAD

Atal Innovation Mission at iLEAD

With a vision to cultivate one million child innovators in India, Atal Innovation Mission by NITI Aayog, Government of India, is facilitating establishment of Atal Tinkering Laboratories (ATLs) in schools across India. The objective of this scheme is to foster curiosity, creativity and imagination in young minds; and inculcate skills such as design mindset, computational thinking, adaptive learning, physical computing etc. 

A total of 13,005 applications were received for ATLs and after due diligence 595 were shortlisted for final round of evaluations. These schools were called for the ATL Innovation Challenge on Saturday, 5th November 2016 at iLEAD (for Kolkata selections) for final round of selection of schools which will receive the grants to establish Atal Tinkering Labs. 

At iLEAD, around 60 schools from all around India took part to showcase their talents on various modern technology gadgets. Some of these schools were DAV Public School from Chandrashekharpur, Jamshedpur Public School, Bajitpur High School H.S, Government Model Higher Secondary School from Basna, Sandhya Modern High School from Gaya, Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya from Borai Durg Chhattisgarh , Kalimpong Girls Higher Secondary School and many more.

These schools showcased their presentations and were asked questions related to it by the judges. Some of these researches were - a model of automatic bathroom system by DAV Public School, an Underground Water Reservoir using Speed-breakers by Jamshedpur Public School and a Recyclo Moulder Device which can mould polythene bags into useful products by Air Force School from Bagdogra.   

About ILEAd:

Institute of Leadership, Entrepreneurship and Development (Ilead) is one of the premier Media can visitand Management School of Kolkata having world class infrastructure   excellent teaching and non teaching staff and is using latest educated technologies and is affiliated to West Bengal University of Technology (WBUT) and is located in the heart of the City. To know more about Ilead one www.ilead.net.in.