Media Release

Mangaluru, Aug 9: Mount Carmel Central School will be inaugurating the Atal Tinkering Lab established under the aegis of Niti Ayog, Govt. of India on Saturday, August 11, 2018 at 9.30 am in the school auditorium. Sr Carmel Rita A C, Provincial Superior of the Apostolic Carmel, Karnataka Province, will inaugurate the Lab.
 
Dr Bharath Shetty, MLA, Mangaluru North Constituency, Capt Ganesh Karnik, Ex-MLC, Karnataka Legislative Council, Dr Molly Chaudhury, Training Head, Sahyadri College of Engineering and Management will be present for the inaugural ceremony.

About the Atal Tinkering Lab:
 
Mount Carmel Central School is privileged to be one among the 1,500 schools selected across the country by Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), New Delhi to establish Atal Tinkering Labs (ATLs) that encourages innovation thinking among young students. The schools were selected from over 25,000 applications from all over the country.

ATL is a workspace where young minds can give shape to their ideas through hands-on do-it-yourself mode and learn innovation skills. The vision is to cultivate one Million children in India as Neoteric Innovators. The objective of this scheme is to foster curiosity, creativity, and imagination in young minds and inculcate skills such as design mindset, computational thinking, adaptive learning, physical computing etc. Students will get a chance to work with tools and equipment to understand what, how and why aspects of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math).

ATL would contain educational and learn “do it yourself” kits and equipments on – science, electronics, robotics, open source microcontroller boards, sensors, Internet of things (IoT), 3D printers etc.