HOW WE DO IT

How Agastya Works

Agastya's education model is:

Scalable – impacts millions of children and teachers through high - reach channels like mobile labs, teacher education, science fairs and science centers.

Innovative and Creative – learning methodologies awaken curiosity, observation, assimilation and application skills.

Sustainable – learning methods are deeply instilled, encourage sensitivity to the environment and growth and development of community.

Replicable – high-impact ideas and low-cost methods are easily transferred and communicated across cultures and countries.

Collaborative – leverages partnerships and encourages participation by government and private education officials and community members.

AGASTYA:

• addresses core primary and secondary education issues.
• impacts a large and broad student-teacher population.
• supports raising of education performance and standards.
• benefits rural and urban communities.

Creative Learning Center

• provides hands-on educational opportunities in a creative and interactive setting to thousands of rural children.
• takes education to remote villages in A.P. and Karnataka through Mobile Labs.
• conducts Science Fairs.
• runs Young Instructor Leader programs

Teacher Education - Center for Creative Teaching

• Train Agastya instructors
• provide innovative, state-of-the-art knowledge and skills to government school teachers
• Train dropouts into instructors (Operation Vijay)

Ecology

• help revive the local ecosystem and promote knowledge dissemination through mobile eco-labs.