By Usha Bhaskar | Senior Manager
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 21st 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 21st 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.
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