Odisha Legislative Assembly (OLA) Speaker Surjya Narayan Patro inaugurated an Atal Tinkering Lab in the Gram Vikas High School, Kankia in Ganjam district on Saturday.
The lab, established by monetary support of Rs 20 lakhs from the Atal Innovation Mission, a flagship programme of the Niti Aayog, would foster curiosity, creativity and imagination in young minds; and inculcate skills such as design mind-set, computational thinking, adaptive learning, physical computing etc.
As many as 1,500 schools were selected from 13,244 schools from across the country. From Odisha, 90 schools were selected from 720 schools. In Ganjam district, three schools have been selected including the Gram Vikas High School, which has more than 500 students from the tribal communities of the State.
Among others, school founder chairman Dr Joe Madiath was present.
