With a vision to ‘Cultivate one Million Children in India as Neoteric Innovators’, Atal Innovation Mission is establishing Atal Tinkering Laboratories (ATLs) in Kendriya Vidyalas across India.
PM SHRI KV2 Colaba Mumbai has been selected for Atal Tinkering Lab. Further process for sanction of grants and other formalities under process.
The scheme aims to foster curiosity, creativity, and imagination in young minds; and inculcate skills such as design mindset, computational thinking, adaptive learning, physical computing, etc.
ATL is a workspace where young minds can give shape to their ideas through hands on do-it-yourself mode; and learn innovation skills. ATLs contain educational and learning ‘do it yourself’ kits and equipment on – science, electronics, robotics, open-source microcontroller boards, sensors, 3D printers and computers.
In order to foster inventiveness among students, ATLs conduct different activities ranging from regional and national level competitions, exhibitions, workshops on problem solving, designing and fabrication of products, lecture series etc., at periodic intervals.