Bricks to Books

Bricks to Books

Activitiestaken-up inthe Last Quarter

The foundation has launched “Learning On Wheels Program (Mobile Computer Lab)” to provide digital literacy access to the children from Rural areas. Though the program is empowering the community children with 21^st Century Skills and digital literacy skills but there was always a need to reach out to the students from rural areas.

This mobile van initiative is reaching out to three Govt schools at Hyderabad and impacting more than 200+ girl students. Students are trained on digital literacy in 1 21^st Century environment. The same mobile van will move to other schools post completion of current three schools.

Two students from LLF nodal schools at Bangalore participated in the “Technology Challenge” and bagged the Popular Choice award. The students got an  opportunity to showcase their innovative model (Development of Smart irrigation System to help the farmers) to prominent personalities from Education and Technology domain. The projects highlighted the passion and innovation of the girl students in addressing solutions to enhance quality of life.  

 As the part of program implementation ,the foundation encourages the  students to participate in the national and international Olympiads and contests . Continuing this spirit students from Chennai participated in the “INSPIRE” contest conducted by department of Science and Technology and bagged state level award. The students addressed the recent issues developed a easy and  economical water purification system and also developed one model to model (Green Fence) to safe guard the animals .

11 Students from Chennai School participated in the “National Means Cum Merit Scholarship” and qualified for the scholarship. These girls will be supported by Govt till they complete their graduation.                

• Tech Wonders (PDF)
  

Activities Taken-up in the last Quarter :

The Children of migrant labours had an opportunity to have fun learning during the summer holidays. In spite of hot summer these children were very eager to work with notebooks, pen, paper and even technology.  More than 100+ students participated in the summer sessions. Initially they were slightly hesitant to attend but later days they were not willing to miss the sessions as it had more activities and fun filled learning. The children were oriented based on activities they come across in day to day life. The most interest activity was on animals and birds they see every day. They felt very sad knowing on the fact of the effects on animals and birds due to human behavior, deforestation, pollution etc. The kids portrayed their thoughts through simple paintings on conserving the nature.

The activities to these children were given based on their skill set after analyzing the same. The identified children shared their skills to others by training their peers with their skill set. Best example was one of the kids training others on origami (paper folding) and others joined together and made the models of animals and birds too. The technology intervention played a vital role during these sessions. The children were very adaptive to learn the basics and used it as a tool to display their learning’s.

 The minority children from various part of the country gather to learn Arabic language through Madarsa’s during summer. These students were surprised on getting an opportunity to learn technology. Since these students never had an access to computers ever before and also since they cannot read, write, speak or understand English, learning computers was a humungous task for them. They found it very interesting as it was activity based learning’s using technology as a tool. The children shared the happenings around their community, the problems they face every day. The healthy discussion resulted with lots of solutions to over go the issues in their community. The children finally returned back with lots of learning’s and assured to join next summer too. 

• Empowering Underserved with Digital Literacy Skill (PDF)