My participation in Maker Faire
I have taken a part in Maker Faire with my core team in the year 2021 which was held on 12,13,14 November. I am Session Host for the 'Day-3' webinar named'Who can become an entrepreneur' as a session host with an interesting introduction, responsible for questions asked by Audions and concluding the session. I have graduated as a Tinker Champ too. This program was held as National Wide and was very successful.
My Participation in ATL Marathon
I participated in ATL Marathon 2021-22. I have completed 1 project with my team-mate Veda Charan brother and 2nd project with my lab-mate NS. Muskan Mehak. The two products are Ripe fruit identifier and Robo dog.
NMS Poster making workshop for teachers
It is a workshop conducted for the teachers to give them a skill of poster making in the very easy tool CANVA. I along with my team participated in this workshop.
Student Mentors explaining about posters
Teachers making posters by maintaining a running notes
The Team
ATL Tinkerpreneur bootcamp
I participated in ATL Tinkerpreneur boot camp 2022 with my teammates and learned many skills. See my digital creations with the folder link given below.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/180iQ36Yy9izUxw7_p_xsdCx798S1pOl-
I and my team mates together designed a product called BRAINEX . When students have free time, They are wasting their time by watching mobile and forgetting about their studies and forgetting art and craft. So, to overcome this problem we have come up with this digital product .
Maker Faire 2.0
I have taken a part in Maker Faire 2.0 which is a complete student-driven program organized for the students by the students with my core team in the year 2022 which was held in November. I was the theme director for the day-2 "Innovation" theme, I also took 2 webinars on the same theme and was the session host for day-2 session 2. I have even taken part in tinker champ celebrations day expressing my views. This program was held as National Wide and was successful.
Mentoring Community School students
On November 14 we the tinker champs, student mentors of Nagarjuna Model School were in a full swing to mentor our community school students. We really enjoyed giving our knowledge to our fellow tinkerers, sharing about our products, and inspired them to do big things. After listening to our lectures students came to us saying we are really inspired by you and we will try our best in doing big things.
Tinkering day activity
On November 14 we conducted a mega tinkering day activity for VI/A students. This activity was organized by AIM for students on this children's day. We student mentors gathered to guide the students. During this activity, students learned basic circuiting, gained knowledge on various types of basic circuits and they made a simple circuit using a fan, dc motor, wires, and a battery.
She-Preneur Internship program
As part of ATL Marathon 2021, our project got selected among the top 350 teams across India, Top 30 teams were sorted outed 350 for the internship program at DELL Technologies, Bangalore. 2 teams from our school got into the top 30. It's a 6-day internship program where we learned the skills to improve our project, we had our coaches and buddies who will be supporting us to take the product further. After the sessions daily we had a 1-hour interaction with our coach Aakash sir, and Buddy Shreenkhala mam to discuss about the project and take it further. One day 4 teams were selected randomly for the mock demo, and we were one in it. On The final day we presented the final pitch to the panelists and even, the two teams from our school topped 10 teams! On the last day, we even got a chance to interact with Dr.Chintan Vaishnav, Mission Director, Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog, Govt. India.
Listening to sessions and responding
Doubt Clarification
Mock pitch by our team
With Dr.Chintan Vaishnav, Mission director, AIM, NITI Aayog, Govt.India
Lunch with coaches and buddies
With Chintan Vaishnav sir and director of LLF
Both the teams of NMS got into top 10 teams among top 30 teams
With coach and buddy
Interaction with Natasha mam, a mentor of LLF
A pic with mentors of dell and LLF
Suggestions by the angel investor for our project
Ripe fruit identifier team
Pic with Imaya sir, a mentor of LLF
Final pitch
Pic with Mr. Rajasekhar sir, RMoC Andhra Pradesh
Pic with our online session mentor
TINKER CHAMP
Tinker Champ is a student-driven and Mentor-assisted programme for ATL students that aims to develop 21st Century skills and leadership qualities among student-tinkerers. It enables students to spread a culture of tinkering, innovation, and entrepreneurship far and wide in their schools and communities by empowering them to take initiatives and drive actions that make an impact on the ground.
A few and talented and experienced student tinkerers with self-drive and motivation are hand picked and groomed to become tinker champs or "Champion of Tinkerers". As champions,tinker champs are expected to drive greater participation among budding tinkerers in their ATLs through student-to-student interactions & engagements, online sessions, competitions, webinars, workshops, inspiration sessions and maker faires. Tinker Champs also develop tinkering and innovation support tools & products and apart from creating self-learning resources for use by fellow tinkerers. They make use of collaboration tools to facilitate peer-learning and shared learning among tinkerers and innovators. They also involve fellow tinkerers in creating a knowledge base of tinkering and innovation know how and make it available for use by budding tinkerers new to the ATL environment. In addition, Tinker Champs groom fellow tinkerers and innovators through informal mentoring, guidance and support. They enlist the support and assistance of their ATL In-charge and mentors to achieve their goals and objectives. Tinker Champs serve as brand ambassadors of their ATLs, while budding tinkerers and innovators look up to them as role models.
NMS Explorium
NMS Explorium was a two-day workshop conducted by Wg Cdr DP Sabharwal sir. Wd Crd DP Sabharwal is an engineer by training, a defence services officer by profession, a teacher and trainer by choice, a counsellor by design, a writer by passion, and a social worker by nature.
'After working in the Indian Air Force for 26 years, he took voluntary retirement to pursue a career in teaching and writing. he was a wisting professor for more than two decades at engineering colleges and MBA institutes. he was authored more than fifty books on a variety of subjects including two on Alzheimer's disease. this is his 'Seventh book for Shishu Mandir, the earlier ones being 'Sharpen Your Brains, Play with Proverbs, Stories That Stir, and the set of three books on India.'
Sabharwal sir has conducted this workshop on "Leadership". Several interesting activities were held to make the students engaged and learn more about leadership. An interesting book called "Find the leader within" was given to all the students and was authored by Sabharwal sir. This book contains life experiences, learning skills and many other useful materials.
The student mentors and mentors with Sabharwal sir
Listening to the lecture
Looking after the participants
Team work
Team discussion for the cultural presentation
Performing the cultural activity of our own concept
Got prize for writing good opinion and experience about the workshop and mentoring session of SLTP
Tinkerpreneur Hand Hold Me Sessions
It is Student-driven Mentoring Session during week 2 to week 7 of the Tinkerpreneur bootcamp 3.0. Here Tinker Champs will mentor other students as professionals.. I have contributred as the Tinker Champ of Nagarjuna Model School by giving a demo on Starting a Business Venture.
Make sure you check out the sessions on AIM youtube channel.
Student Leader Training Programme
Student Leader Training Program is a program where students of class 6,7 & 8 join the sessions from 7PM to 8PM to read the book ‘Find the Leader Within’ for the first half an hour and learn about problem solving (Design Thinking) for the next half an hour. The main objective of dividing the sessions into two segments is not to make the students get bored. We want everyone to enjoy our sessions without getting bored.We planned and have given points to the students according to how they read and answer the questions. We were also conducting the warm up and the main quiz everyday and also were announcing the winners to inspire them to come forward to speak, express their views, thoughts and opinions.We have also conducted some masterclasses on Sundays for the students by the 'Harini ma’am' (HOD of Amrutha University) and 'Phaneendra sir'
(ATL Incharge of NMS) .
Biz Box Workshop
Biz Box is an initiative launched by the top tinker champs of the country to provide entreprenual skills to the rural students . This product gives skills in various sectors of entrepreneurship like building a product, refining a product, marketing strategy, sales, pitching etc... With this product students can gain entreprenual skills. This product is basically a kit which contains a few informative cards, to do cards, task cards etc...
Story Writing Skills Workshop
Story writing skills workshop was conducted by Ayush Kesari sir, RMoC of Maharashtra who is also a good story narrator and a story writer. It is a workshop where we can learn a few tips to write and narrate our own stories in a innovative way. Basically, a story needs a good start (or) introduction, a brief and suspensful body and a good emotional ending. To narrate a story, the tone at each moment and emotion of story is very important. White composing the story, using catchy and creative words attracts the readers. Many such tips and tricks were given Ayush sir. All these helps us to become a good author and a narrator.
Listening to the concept
Team discussion to compose a story
Annual Day Anchoring
On February 16 2024, Our school annual day celebrations: Renaissance 2024 was held at our schhol. On part of this celebrations, I played a role of anchor to take the event forward along with my 11 more anchors. The event was at a hype till the event was concluded. It was a very intresting event where we had pyschology proffessor and chairmans of other schools as our guests. We had very exciting things in the event like the culturals, theme play, role play, launching of comics,story books etc... It was a very splendid event.
Farewell Day Hosting
On the occassion of farewell day for the 10th class students by 9th standard students in the year 2024-March went on very well. I along with my co-host Naziya hosted this event. This event was full of emotions, experiences, suggestions, gratitute. Finally, our seniors honoured our chairman sir with a gratitude frame. Chairman sir filled our senior's hearts with full of confidence and bravery for their future studies while our directress mam and principal mam took over the speech later. Finally it was a happy farewell for our 2024 10th graders.