The JP International School (JPIS), Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, under the aegis of Niti Aayog’s Atal Innovative Mission, has inaugurated Atal Tinkering Lab l (ATL). Secretary of CBSE Anurag Tripathi along with scientist of Vigyan Prasar Dr Rintu Nath inaugurated the event in the presence of Chairman Roshan Agarwal, President Arun Kedia, Vice President Amit Saxena, Principal Heema Sharma and many others.

The young innovators from the school exhibited various innovative projects and explained it’s functioning with élan. All these emphasised skill development through hands-on learning methodology. While interacting with the students, Tripathi said: “An initiative like this will surely support young and talented students to shape their curiosity, creativity, adaptive learning and physical computing to understand the basic concept of STEM along with the hands on experiments with the help of various tool required.”

Agarwal thanked NITI Aayog for selecting JPIS and said: “The lab is designed to inculcate skills such as design mind set, computational thinking, adaptive learning etc and hopefully learnings from here will place our students at par with world’s best.”

The vice president Amit Saxena said: “It is a step towards path to excellence and ATL lab would teach our students essential 21st-century skills which will help them in developing their professional and personal skills.” 

The dignitaries also released the 13th edition of the annual magazine Vision which is a compilation of the articles contributed by the students and activities took place in 2107-18 session.