Dorothy Bush Koch, daughter of 41st President of the United States George H.W. Bush and sister of 43rd President George W. Bush, officially welcomed Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi to Washington, D.C. on July 1, 2019. “Doro” and her sister-in-law, Patricia Reilly Koch, garlanded Amma, received her blessings and offered a few words.
The national Virtual Laboratories project of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, along with IIT Delhi; IIT Bombay; IIT Kanpur; IIT Kharagpur and others, has been enhancing the laboratory education of students online for more than a decade.
Dr. Prema Nedungadi, Director, AmritaCREATE ( Amrita Center for Research in Analytics, Technologies & Education) presented Amrita Learning, India’s first Intelligent Tutoring System, at Mobile Learning Week, MLW 2019, at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris from March 4-8, 2019.
Amrita Learning App, a finalist in the Barbara Bush Foundation Adult Literacy XPRIZE competition, emerged as a winner in its final phase amongst 108 other registered teams and was adjudged to be providing one of the best ways to accelerate adult literacy in the US using mobile solutions.
The Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Government of India, has given Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham the title of ‘Centre of Excellence in Tribal Empowerment through Digital Inclusion’ on October 9, 2018.
Thirty-Five Amrita Rural Centers with a participation of 794 students joined together to commemorate the International Day of the girl.
Amrita Center for Research in Analytics, Technologies & Education (AmritaCREATE), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, organised a workshop on Online Labs, an educational initiative pioneered by AmritaCREATE, in partnership with Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) and funded by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
Amrita Center for Research in Analytics, Technologies & Education (AmritaCREATE), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, organized an Online Labs workshop at Hongirana School of Excellence, Karnataka, as part of the Online Labs training programme on August 5, 2018.
Online Labs (OLabs), one of the research initiatives of Amrita Center for Research in Analytics, Technologies & Education (AmritaCREATE), in collaboration with Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) and funded by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, has reached almost two lakh students across the country.
A workshop on Amrita Online Labs project, one of the research initiatives of Amrita Center for Research in Analytics, Technologies & Education (AmritaCREATE), in collaboration with the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), was conducted at Mithila Public School, Bihar, on July 22, 2018.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham's AmritaCREATE (Amrita Center for Research in Analytics, Technologies & Education (AmritaCREATE)) 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 Kerala, celebrated International Mother Earth Day on April 22, 2018, by pledging to take care of or plant trees.
On March 23, 2018, Amrita's Virtual Laboratories and its deployment outcomes won the GOLC Online Lab Award 2018 for visualized experiment category.
AmritaCREATE, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, organized an Online Labs workshop for the first time at different schools in Lakshadweep Islands, as part of the Online Labs training programme. The programme was held from February 6-8, 2018.
A twelve member delegation from Hunan Xiangtan University and Hunan Xiangtan Daonan Academy, located in the Hunan District in China, visited the Kochi and Amritapuri campuses of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, on December 17-18, 2017.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham participated in the Transforming Education Conference for Humanity (TECH) 2017, held at Visakhapatnam, from 16th to 18th December, 2017.
AmritaCREATE, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, organized a one-day workshop on Online Labs at Parampara Academic Public School, Arakkonam, Tamil Nadu, on August 25, 2017. The workshop was attended by fifty-five science teachers from nineteen schools participated in the workshop.
AmritaCREATE, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, organized a one-day workshop on Online Labs, a virtual laboratory developed by AmritaCREATE in partnership with C-DAC Mumbai for the students from class 9 to 12, at Kendriya Vidyalaya School, Tamil Nadu, on August 30, 2017. Forty-five science teachers from twenty-two schools participated in the workshop.
AmritaCREATE, one of the research initiatives of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, organized a one-day workshop on Online Labs for School Lab Experiments at Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi Viswa Mahavidyalaya, Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu, on September 9, 2017. The workshop was attended by seventy science teachers from seventeen schools.
A training program on Online Labs for School Lab Experiments, one of the educational research project of AmritaCREATE, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, was held at the Ashram Public School, Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, on September 22, 2017. Fifty-two science teachers from ten schools participated in the training programme.
Amrita Center for Research in Advanced Technologies for Education (AmritaCREATE), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, organised Online Labs workshops, for the first time, at different schools in United Arab Emirates (UAE), as part of the Online Labs training programme from 11th to 22nd September, 2017.
AmritaCREATE, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, organized a one-day training programme on Online Labs at Hans Roever Public School, Perambalur, Tamil Nadu, on September 16, 2017. Thirty-four science teachers from five schools participated in the training Programme.
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 Kerala in Computer Awareness Skills.
AmritaCREATE, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, organized Online Labs workshop at different schools in Delhi from August 7- 18 , 2017, as part of Online Labs training programme. More than three hundred science teachers from one hundred and twenty schools got the opportunity to explore Online Labs during the training program.
