STEAM For Social Good is an annual summer camp and Makeathon conducted by AMMACHI Labs in collaboration with the IEEE Education Society Kerala Section. The program focuses on IoT and app development to inspire students to develop prototypes for solving societal challenges. Throughout the ten-day coding camp, children learned to apply a design thinking approach toward UN Sustainable Development Goals. The participants, which included 10 teachers and 43 students of whom 10 were girls, were first taught the basics of coding and technologies including app development and IoT. They then leveraged this understanding to think critically about how technologies can be used to solve real-world problems. The final two days of the camp featured a social-good Makeathon wherein students built working prototypes. During the final 2-day Makeathon, using computing skills they had learned in the preceding ten days, the children explore creative solutions to one global goal challenge.
Funded by: IEEE TryEngineering
Duration: 12 days
Amount: $1994.33 (INR 1,55,498)
