“I built my first robot that could navigate around the house without bumping into any obstacles. That night a realisation hit me—it isn’t really that difficult to make things, and that was how I was initiated into the world of robotics.”
Sridhar P, a teacher and mentor to students in a Bengaluru government school, was not going to let the lack of funds stop a group of talented students from participating in a robotics competition in Japan.
Around 140 virtual labs have been set up in these institutions to help students from various disciplines, such as electronics and robotics, to make up for the lack of physical labs.
With her new design, the Bee Saver Bot, Kavya is hoping to represent India at the First Lego League - European Open championship in Denmark, and collaborate with the Indian government she returns. It's all in a days work for this twelve-year-old.
Sisters Aditi Prasad and Deepti Rao Suchindran, COO and CIO of Robotix Learning Solutions, are on a mission to inspire and educate young girls to learn to code and develop real-world programmes for real-world applications.