Mexus Education, a Mumbai based education innovations enterprise, launches “Iken Scientifica Workshops” where students get a chance to experience real-world situations in a simulated learning environment. The summer camps will be conducted from 15th April to 30th April in schools across Mumbai, Thane and Navi Mumbai in two sessions for 3.5 hour everyday. At the summer camp, students work in teams in an open market of raw materials, tools, fabricators and knowledge experts to create useful machines. The educational objectives of the workshops in the summer camp are – design technology, application of scientific principles, planning, team-work, time management and negotiation skills. Like in an ecosystem, a student benefits & evolves through the workshop series The workshop focuses on product design and development wherein students are challenged with 70 different unique problem statements which covers topics like design technology, mechanics, scientific concepts, model making, sustainable development etc. that they can resolve by applying theoretical understanding of concepts. For instance, a problem statement such as ‘make a mobile phone charger which runs on wind energy’ or ‘make a robot using a watch, cell phone and a toothbrush’ will be given to students for which they need to find solutions to and execute their concept with materials & resources available at the workshop. |
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