Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s AmritaCREATE (Amrita Center for Research in Analytics & Technologies for Education) was selected to be one of five finalist teams for the $7M Barbara Bush Foundation’s Adult Literacy XPRIZE in an awards ceremony on June 25, 2018, in New Orleans.
Four school students from the state of Uttarakhand, who were trained a part of the AmritaRITE (Rural India Tablet Education) program, have cleared the Navodaya entrance exam and already started their schooling in June, 2018. In the 2017-18 academic year, AmritaRITE program began selecting bright students in villages and giving special tutoring for Navodaya entrance exam.
The students of more than twenty-five Amrita Rural Education Centers from Jammu to Keralam, celebrated International Mother Earth Day on April 22, 2018, by pledging to take care of or plant trees.
Amrita Center for Research in Analytics and Technologies for Education (AmritaCREATE), one of the research initiatives of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, trained over 1087 tribal children and adults in Wayanad, Idukki and Attapadi districts of Keralam in Computer Awareness Skills.
The education centers of Amrita RITE- Rural India Tablet Education in villages across India celebrated Dussehra by revering books and educational tablets as part of the Saraswati Puja.
The teacher and students of Amrita Education Center at Goa harvested the first kitchen garden at the premises of the center on September 9, 2017. The initiative was taken by Ms. Supriya Gaonkar, the teacher at Amrita Education Center at Goa.
AmritaCREATE, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, organized a one-day workshop on Online Labs for School Lab Experiments, an educational research project designed and developed by AmritaCREATE and C-DAC, Mumbai, at Thrissur Sahodaya, Keralam, on July 19, 2017. Two hundred and ninety science teachers from different schools of Thrissur Sahodaya participated in the workshop.
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.
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