Over 100 students and 16 faculty members from the Coimbatore, Bengaluru, and Amritapuri campuses of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham visited 13 villages across 11 states in North India last month.
Amrita’s unique experiential learning program, called Live-in-Labs®, is becoming one of the most sought-after fieldwork-based programs for international students.
The villagers of Mothakara, Kerala have benefited from an Amrita Live-in-Labs® project to design, develop and implement solar thermal powered lemongrass essential-oil distilleries, sustainably reviving a generations-old source of income.
Amrita Live-in-Labs® was showcased as an initiative to achieve learning outcomes effectively at the 4th World Summit on Accreditation (WOSA) 2018, organized by Government of India’s National Board of Accreditation (NBA) at New Delhi, from September 8- 9, 2018.
A team of Professors from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham visited Ryerson University, Canada, on July 10, 2018. They met with Dr. Ali Miri, Graduate Program Director and Nadia Bello, Experiential Learning Strategist at the Ryerson campus.
Dr. Balakrishnan Shankar, Associate Dean, Amrita School of Engineering, Amritapuri campus and Mr. Manoj P, Amrita School of Business, Bengaluru campus, visited Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) D-Lab. During the visit, Amrita faculty members met Dr. Bob Nanes, Executive director and instructor of D-Lab at MIT.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham participated in the 12th India Education Fair held at Kathmandu, Nepal, from July 6-7, 2018, and at Birat Nagar, Nepal, on July 9-10, 2018.
A team of engineering students and faculty members visited Kerkata and Bundubeda villages in Jharkhand in June 2018 as part of the Live-in-Labs® program.
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.
Live-in-Labs®, the experiential learning program at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, was showcased in Careers 360 Engineering Special Magazine, April 2018 issue.
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