Agastya's Sandesh - July 2025
- Jerin R
- Jul 7
- 2 min read
Updated: Jul 8
A Summer of Innovation and Climate Action
This summer, two teams from Creative Inquiry at Lehigh University partnered with Agastya to strengthen hands-on learning across two critical fronts: innovation and climate education.
The Future Makers Unlimited team focused on India’s Atal Tinkering Labs (ATLs), conducting fieldwork at Agastya’s Kuppam campus. They hosted a two-day workshop with Agastya ignators, simulating ATL teacher training with sessions on electronics, CAD, and 3D printing. Their learnings are being shaped into a practical manual, a teacher support network, and a simplified platform for ATL usage.
Meanwhile, the Climate Change Learning Center team collaborated with Agastya’s ignator to co-create a pilot-ready climate change workbook, hands-on learning kit, and plans for a large-scale learning center. Their resources, which were created during fieldwork in Bengaluru, Karnataka, and Kuppam, Andhra Pradesh, will be made available in the upcoming months though Agastya's scientific centers and mobile labs.
Stories on the Move!
In collaboration with the Learn Through Stories Foundation, Agastya’s Mobile Labs are carrying 900 storybooks to children across Dharwad (Karnataka), Mumbai and Pune (Maharashtra), Gujarat, and Hyderabad (Telangana).
These storybooks are reaching children who have limited access to engaging reading material, bringing joy, imagination, and the love of reading to every stop.
Here’s to stories written by children sparking curiosity and lighting up young minds across India!
Sparking Aah! Aha! Ha-Ha! in Highly-Able Children
Since 2023, Agastya has collaborated with institutions IIT Madras, IISc Bengaluru, and IIT Kanpur to host summer research camps for highly able children from Navodaya Vidyalayas. The camps included bootcamps, lectures by faculty of theses institutions and Agastya Ignators, lab visits, and hands-on project work designed to deepen understanding and spark curiosity in STEM.
Children were selected through school nominations, a written test, and interviews. The initiative offers a valuable platform for them to explore research-led learning and imagine future careers in science and innovation.
