New Delhi: The NITI Aayog has selected three schools from Orissa under a plan to assist them in establishing Atal Tinkering Laboratories under the Atal Innovation Mission on their campuses after a series of qualifying rounds held in the recent months.
The three qualified schools are DAV Public School at Pokhariput, DAV Public School at Unit VIII and DAV Public School, Chandrashekharpur. All the three schools are in Bhubaneswar and they were among eight schools chosen from Orissa in the last round of selection.
The eight schools selected by the Aayog earlier for the final round were Jawahar Novodaya Vidyalaya at Sambalpur, Kendriya Vidayala at Balasore, Kendriya Vidyalaya at Berhampur, Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 1 in Bhubaneswar and Raja Chaitanya Deb Public High School at Nabarangpur.
The Aayog initially received 151 applications from schools managed by central, state as well as private players in the country. After scrutiny, the Aayog has shortlisted eight such schools from Orissa to compete in the final round and at last it picked three schools from Orissa out of 257 participating schools across the country.
According to norms, the selected schools will be given grant-in-aid including a one-time establishment cost of `10 lakh and operational expenses of `10 lakh for a maximum period of five years to each lab.
According to the Aayog norms for the high end labs, children will get a chance to work with tools and equipment to understand the concepts of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math). The lab would contain educational and learning ‘do it yourself’ kits and
equipment on – science, electronics, robotics, open source microcontroller boards,
sensors and 3D printers and computers.
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