Tinkering Studio - Learning spaces for innovative minds

  The famous philosopher rightly quoted “ The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but building on the new.“ To foster this idea an Innovation week was organised in Mayoor Private School.   It kicked off from 16th January to 20th January 2023. to boost creativity, innovation, leadership, entrepreneurship, marketing  advertising and entrepreneurship among the students. Students from kindergarten to grade 11 were given different activities to explore and execute. The activities included, jewellery making, photo frame making, bubble machine making, card board games, circuit games, games developed using coding on any platform, games developed using robotics, items like bookmarks, bags, cards, etc were made. Let’s take a look at the skills displayed by them during this process of making. 

  What happens when great minds team up to work? Yes , they create a new enchanting world, unlike the ususal everyday things around them. " Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand " by Neil Armstrong.. Let me take you to a new exceptional world, wherein our students of grade 4 collaborated, brainstormed, defined, ideated and created their own mysterious globe of enchanting animals. They have a new vision of a new planet, where animals not only walk or fly but they have unique features beyond imagination. The videos below will give you a deeper insight into the way the students worked using the design thinking technique as well as the objective of creating their own mystery animal. Let’s take a peek! The Objective and Process of making a Mystery Animal The Creation Of The Chadracosoarus

  “Innovation is seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.” –Dr. Albert, Szent- Györgyi Everyone has the capacity to be innovative and creative in their day-to-day work. Sometimes all it takes is a spark to get the ideas flowing. Keeping this in mind, we challenged the Grade 5 students through a cross curricular Makers Design Project wherein they could develop their understanding of how Engineers create things for a better world and design a device with some path breaking features so that the Titanic- the Unsinkable Ship- actually becomes ‘Unsinkable’. This project was to enable the students to enhance their innovative skills. This was a cross curricular Maker’s Project integrating Science, Math, Art and Craft with English Literature. Initially, students were encouraged to research how ships work which sparked some really insightful discussions among the students. They discussed collaboratively and then started their journey of giving shape to their ideas. T

“ Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts .” - Leo Tolstoy. Keeping these motivational lines in mind,the students of grade I D along with their enterprising teacher Ms. Asmita, decided to enlighten the knowledge of all the other fellow students  by inculcating the spirit of inquiry in them in order to enhance their skills of critical thinking and problem solving.   For this, the students were encouraged to conduct rigorous research with regards to various underwater animals and analyze their characteristics against the features of various luminous water animals. Cross curricular activities integrating Math, Art and English were implemented to understand mathematical operations, furbish their art skills and boost their language competence. The students multiplied the suction tubes of certain animals with the number of their legs, various water animals were created usin

  In the words of John Mc Donald, “ There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion” Electric things are so much part of our lives!  Gaining a current understanding of how electricity works and what it does is vital life learning.  Our emerging and investigative engineers of grade 6 were immensely engaged in learning the same, through a few interactive projects based on circuits. .  Our budding engineers  learnt the basics of building a series and parallel circuits.  By  the end of the activity they gained immense practical knowledge on LEDs, batteries, resistors, switches, board wiring,and spin circuits. The main activity  was to learn about  the difference between the two (series has one path for the electricity to flow, whereas parallel has two or more paths).Students also had to be able to use their analytical skills to determine if the light bulbs would glow or not. If

“You have to find what sparks a light in you, so that you, in your own way, can illuminate the world.” - Oprah Winfrey. Keeping this inspirational quote  in mind, the students of Grade 2 used their tinkering skills to light up and create a glowing world around them. Learning is not restricted to any single channel, the students incorporated a variety of cross curricular learning through this activity. Initially, they  were encouraged to  research various animals and plants that have the characteristics to glow naturally. Science surely makes this possible, so with the help of paper circuits the students created their glowing world. They also linked their creation with the various tense verbs they learnt during their English classes. Students were also fascinated learning the origami technique of making fireflies.  After days of  rigorous hard work and determination, these students were finally able to make their world glow. Let’s take a closer look at the reviews from the students and