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 at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Una, Himachal Pradesh, on August 24, 2017. Twenty science teachers from different schools participated in the workshop.
AmritaCREATE, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, organized a one-day workshop on Online Labs at Chinmaya Vidyalaya School, Rajapalayam, Tamil Nadu, on August 26, 2017. Thirty-six science teachers from nine schools participated in the workshop.
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, Kerala, on July 19, 2017. Two hundred and ninety science teachers from different schools of Thrissur Sahodaya 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 Pragathi Central School, Telangana, on April 24, 2017. One hundred and thirty science teachers from sixteen schools participated in the workshop.
A one-day workshop on Online Labs for School Lab Experiments was conducted at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya School, Ludhiana, Punjab, on August 19, 2017. The workshop was organized by AmritaCREATE, one of the research projects under Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham. Twenty science teachers from thirteen schools participated in the workshop.
AmritaCREATE, the Amrita Center for Research in Analytics & Technologies for Education at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, organized a one-day workshop on Online Labs at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Ranchi, Jharkhand, on July 15, 2017. Twenty-seven science teachers from eleven schools participated in the workshop.
AmritaCREATE, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, organized a one-day workshop on Online Labs for School Lab Experiments at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Dhanbad, Jharkhand, on July 17, 2017. Twenty-nine science teachers from twelve schools participated in the workshop.
AmritaCREATE, one of the research projects of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, organized a one-day workshop on Online Labs, research project developed by AmritaCREATE and C-DAC, Mumbai, at Kendriya Vidyalaya School, Jammu, on July 12, 2017. Twenty-nine science teachers from twenty-seven schools 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.
As part of Amrita Online Labs training programme, AmritaCREATE, a research initiative of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, organized a one-day workshop on Online Labs for School Lab Experiments (O-Labs) at Kendriya Vidyalaya, Joshimath, Uttarakhand, on July 4, 2017. The training program was attended by twelve science teachers from three schools.
AmritaCREATE, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, organized a one-day workshop on Online Labs at Kendriya Vidyalaya, Mugalsarai, Uttar Pradesh, on June 29, 2017. Thirty-six science teachers from fourteen schools participated in the workshop.
AmritaCREATE, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, organized a one-day workshop on Online Labs at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Vaishali, Bihar, on July 10, 2017. Nineteen science teachers from eleven schools participated in the workshop.
AmritaCREATE, a research project under Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, organized a one-day workshop on Online Labs for School Lab Experiments at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, on July 12, 2017. The workshop was attended by twenty-nine science teachers from sixteen schools.
AmritaCREATE, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, organized a one-day workshop on Online Labs at Kendriya Vidyalaya, Bowenpally, Secunderabad, Telangana, on July 7, 2017. One hundred and three science teachers from fifty schools participated in the workshop.
AmritaCREATE, a research initiative of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, organized an Amrita Online Labs teachers training program for science teachers at Kendriya Vidyalaya, Kadavanthra, Kochi, Kerala, on May 28, 2017. The training program was attended by thirty-eight biology teachers from twenty-seven Kendriya Vidyalaya schools.
Interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary studies are key to many success stories of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham's research projects. Ministry of HRD's National Mission in Education through Internet and Communication Technologies (NMEICT) had funded a massive project on building Virtual Laboratories for students who did not have access to laboratory education and skill training.
AmritaCREATE, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, conducted a teacher training program on Online Labs for School Lab Experiments (O-Labs) at Radcliffe School, Bengaluru, Karnataka, on May 25, 2017. Fifteen science teachers from the school participated in the training programme.
AmritaCREATE, one of the research initiatives of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, conducted a one-day workshop on Online Labs at Kendriya Vidyalaya No.1, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, on April 20, 2017. Twenty-two science teachers from five nearby schools participated in the workshop.
Amrita RITE Education Center at Wayanad district, Kerala, organized a one- day Amrita Bala Kendra Summer Camp for Amrita village children at the branch- Mothakara Ashram, Wayanad, on April 29, 2017. Seventy tribal students from class 1 to 10, from seven tribal colonies attended the camp.
The Indian villages are the bedrock of ancient cultures, preserved carefully through generations of an otherwise changing world. The village teachers at AmritaRITE’s rural education centers conducted a contest among students at the centers, mainly to preserve Indian rural culture and heritage, on April 30, 2017. The event was organized to recognize and provide special care to the important roots of native culture, whose value, though intangible, is intrinsic to the identity of the people of those areas and whose preservation can play a significant role in enhancing their quality of life.
The teachers and students of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s Rural India Tablet Education (AmritaRITE) Program participated in rallies all over India to sensitize people and widen their horizon about the value of giving education to girls on April 23, 2017, which is celebrated as World Book Day. The major drive of the program is to promote education for girls and gender equality in rural and tribal villages of India.
Dr. Prema Nedungadi, Research Director at AmritaCREATE, one of the research initiatives of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, was invited as a distinguished panelist at the 10th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV 2017) held at New Delhi, India from March 7-9, 2017.
