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.
Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS) at Karnataka, is the foremost Health Science University in India, established at Bangalore by the Government of Karnataka. On April 21, 2017, AmritaCREATE (Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham) was given the unique opportunity to conduct a live demonstration of MedSim in the presence of the Vice Chancellor, Dr. K. S. Ravindranath.
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