The AmritaCREATE Team of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, is one of eight semifinalists advancing in the $7 million Barbara Bush Foundation Adult Literacy XPRIZE presented by Dollar General Literacy Foundation. The Adult Literacy XPRIZE is a global competition, challenging teams to develop a mobile application for existing smart devices that results in the greatest increase in literacy skills among participating adult learners.
AmritaCREATE, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, has authored an article on Medical Virtual Patient Simulator (MedSim), which was featured as a cover story on Computer Society of India’s CSI Communications magazine of Computer Society of India (CSI) in its August 2017 issue with the theme, “ICT in Healthcare”.
The students in Amrita Rural Education Centers across the country celebrated Vriksh Raksha Bandhan on August 7, 2017. They pledged to protect the environment on day of Raksha Bandhan, an annual rite celebrated by Indians by tying a thread or amulet on the wrist as a form of ritual protection.
Amrita RITE organised a Amrita Bala Kendra summer camp for the village children at the Mothakkara ashram in Wayanad on 29th April, 2017. Around 70 tribal students from Class 1 to 10, from 7 tribal colonies attended the camp.
Forty-five M.Tech. students of Power & Energy, Control & Instrumentation, along with faculty members Dr. Ilango K. , Ms. Jayasree P. R. and Mr. Bharat K. R. from the Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Amritapuri campus spent August 12th and 13th, 2016, as a part of co-curricular activity in Munnar and Idukki.
AmritaCREATE conducted workshops on Online Labs in Andhra Pradesh on 23rd and 24th of June, 2016. More than hundred teachers from rural schools were trained during these two days.
As the part of Amrita Online Labs training programme, AmritaCREATE conducted OLabs workshop at different schools in Madhya Pradesh from 16 – 19 June, 2016. More than 280 teachers from 120 schools participated in. . .
Prof. Prema Nedungadi was invited as a Distinguished Panelist in the Plenary Session- Learning and Leading with Technology at the 4th Edition of International Conference of School Principals 2015 (ICSP 2015) on December 3, 2015 at PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry, New Delhi.
On Good Governance Day, Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister of Communications and Information Technology, awarded Prof. Prema Nedungadi, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, and Dr. Sasikumar, CDAC Mumbai, with certificates of recognition for the nationwide rollout of Online Labs for School Experiments.
Prof. Prema Nedungadi of AmritaCREATE, was an invited speaker at the Vatican conference on “Children and Sustainable Development: Challenge for Education”, held November 13-15, 2015 at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. She presented Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s Amrita RITE (Rural India Tablet enhanced Education) model that was inspired and guided by Chancellor Amma’s vision to provide both ‘education for making a living’ and ‘education for life’ skills.
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