Teach To Learn - 1Lab-1School

Benefits

The 1Lab – 1School Model has the potential to connect premier institutes of the country with grass-root level schools in rural India. The impact of this model implementation can be realized in its many benefits to the Mentors (Graduate Students) and Mentees (Government Higher Secondary School students).

Beneficiaries

Mentees

Motivation to pursue higher education
Relate book learning to reality
Gain familiarity with the engineering applications
Get the opportunity to work with the top notch institutions

Mentors

Opportunity to enhance their teaching skills
Enhance the sense of responsibility and duty toward society
Get motivated to solve social problems
Realize the joy of giving back to the society

Academics – Concept Based (Everyday Science)

Purpose

To get students excited about the scientific facts behind daily events and observations.
Develop friendship and rapport with the students at the beginning of a day-long session.

Features

The questions chosen are syllabus compatible.

Mode of Delivery

PowerPoint presentations with animated videos
Basic hands-on demonstrations/activities.

Sample questions:

Why does milk rise when boiled?
Why is the sky blue?
Why does popcorn pop?

Academics – Skills Based (Device Engineering)

Purpose

Introduce the scientific concepts behind simple devices, working principle and mechanism of the devices.
Inculcate the confidence to build devices from scratch.
Expose students to skills based training.

Features

Simple devices
Not expensive
Easily available
Syllabus compatible

Mode of Delivery

Dismantle and Assembly of devices
Schematic, PowerPoint presentation
Related activities

Sample devices

Bicycle Bell
Binocular
Weighing Scale
Electric Iron

Academics – Research Based (Research from the Lab)

Purpose

Introduce the concept of research
Expose the students to the state-of-the art research
Excite them with interesting inventions

Features

Something new & novel

Mode of Delivery

Demonstrate research idea and its applications as a product

Career Counselling

Will be updated soon

Teacher Training

Will be updated soon

Awareness Workshop

School

After getting the necessary permissions from the education board (government), Government Higher Secondary Schools are invited to participate in this one-day ‘Awareness Workshop’. Here, one 9th grade science teacher (Co-Ordinator Teacher) and the Headmaster of each invited school, School Board, Funding Agency, Project Team are made aware of the model concept, implementation process and the expected outcome. Input is sought from them regarding implementation feasibility.

Lab

With the consent of interested faculty from IITM, graduate students (M.Tech and PhD scholars) are invited to this workshop. Here, the model is presented with special focus on requirement and expectations from the Graduate Students. Required preparation, time commitment and agenda are discussed in detail during this workshop.

Connection Meeting

One of the main components in the implementation process is the Connection Meeting. This officially connects the interested Mentors (Graduate Students Lab) and the selected Mentees (rural Government Higher Secondary School Students).

Implementation in Schools

The implementation process involves the act of Mentors visiting the rural schools 6 times in an academic year to mentor the students through device engineering.

Parameters for the Implementation

Screening Test

An aptitude based screening test is conducted to select a representative group of mentees from each school. This group will be the project participants throughout the implementation process.

Training

The Mentors take about 10 to 12 devices during the mentorship period. The students are trained in the science behind each device, its functionality, principle, mechanism and the larger applications of the concepts. Besides the devices, the Mentors present at least one concept based everyday science question to the students.

Duration & Frequency

The Graduate Labs visit their connected school about 6 times in an academic year. They do this for two to three years.

Co-ordinator Teacher

The teacher stays in class with the Mentors and the Mentees throughout the day during every visit. He/she not only helps with classroom management, but also assists the mentors, helps take the concepts to the other students in the school and encourages the students to connect and recall this information during their regular class time.

Field Visits

The project team visits the participating schools regularly to interact with the Co-ordinator Teacher, Mentees and the HM of the school. This helps to monitor and make observations necessary to streamline the implementation process.

Status Meeting

A meeting is organised during the mid-year (interim period) and at the end of the year to discuss the status of implementation. HM, Co-ordinator Teacher, Mentors and Advisors participate in this meeting. Sponsors and the education board are also present during these status meetings along with the Project Team.

Documentation

The status and progress of the implementation are monitored systematically throughout the implementation period. Pre and Post-tests are administered to the students during every visit. Using a survey form, feedback is collected periodically from the students, Co-ordinator Teachers and Mentors. Staff interactions, observations during field visits and status meeting reports are documented.

Analysis

Impact analysis is done based on test scores from the Pre and Post tests and from the survey based feedbacks.

Impact Overview (2018 - 2019)

The end of the year data analysis shows that there has been a significant increase in the knowledge and scientific thinking ability in the school students. The relationship between the graduate students and the school students is getting strong over time. Details of the study results are given below.

Participant Details: 2018 - 2020

Sl. No	Lab Names	Graduate Students (Mentors)	Schools
1	Computational Systems Biology Advisor: Prof. Karthick Raman	N.T. Devika, Maziya Ibrahim, Priyanka Maripuri, S. Gayathri, Malvika Sudhakar, R. Lavanya, Shayantan Banerjee, Priyan Bhattacharya, Prem Jagadeesh, A.S. Anjana, Debomita	Tiruttani Government Girls Higher Secondary School, Tiruvallur District
2	Polymer Engineering and Colloidal Science Lab Advisor: Prof. Abhijit P. Deshpande & Prof. Basavaraja	Group 1 Logesh Kumar, Bhadra Hrishikesh, Pankaj Jadhav, Preetika Rastogi, Ramya K A, Sriram Krishnamurthy, Sujatha Selvamurugan	Arambakkam Government Higher Secondary School, Tiruvallur District
3	Polymer Engineering and Colloidal Science Lab Advisor: Prof. Abhijit P. Deshpande & Prof. Basavaraja	Group 2 Sruthi L, Ranajit Mondal, Remya Ann Mathews, Prashanth G., Jacob John, Pandurangan K	Alapakkam Government Higher Secondary School, Kanchipuram District
4	Bioseparations Advisor: Prof. G.K. Suraishkumar	Archanaa Sundararaghavan, Prerna Bhalla, Raja Murugan, Siliveru Krishnapriya, Sonal Omer, Ravichandran Karunagaran, Aswathy S, Sai Sarangadas, Subhasree Sridhar	Perambakkam Government Girls Higher Secondary School, Tiruvallur District
5	Computational Bio-Physics (CBP) Advisor: Prof Sanjib Senapati	Rajani K, B Sangeetha, Shankha Banerjee, P Manivel	CMS Government Boys Higher Secondary School, Kanchipuram District
6	Applied Nanostructures Engineering and Nanochemistry (ANEN) Advisor: Prof. Tiju Thomas	Bhuvanasundari S, Kousika A, Sudha Priyanga G, Tamilazhagan M, Varadharaj Nallathambi, Ragul Krishnan	Somangalam Government Higher Secondary School, Kanchipuram District
7	Mathematics Advisor:Prof. K. C. Sivakumar	Sushmitha P, Lavanya S, Santi Ranjan Das, Md Hasan Ali Biswas, Parveena Shahim, Sivashankar, Pasupathy, Sangeetha	Karapakkam Government High School, Kanchipuram District
8	Piezo Electric Sensors and Automators (PSA) Advisor: Prof. Lakshmana Rao C	Srinivas Kasimahanthi, Aman Kumar, Swathika M, Kalyan Subbu, Ashish Pandey, Jeevitha Godumakunta, Noushad Bin Jamal, Sri Krishna Sudhamsu Kambhammettu, Harish L, Ambresh Biradar	Ponneri Government Boys Higher Secondary School, Tiruvallur District
9	Nanomechanics and Nanomaterials (NMNM) Advisor: Prof. Pijush Ghosh	Sanghamitra Debta, Aleena Alex, Ashwin K.N, Pratik Gujar, Raghunandan Pratoori, Amit Kumar, Rajesh Kumar Meena, Payel Bandyopadhyay, Nirrupama K.I., Nidhi	Ammoor Government Higher Secondary School, Vellore District
10	Vibration Energy Harvesting and Control (VECHL) Advisor: Prof. Shaikh Faruque Ali	Rahul Kumar, Hiren Patel, Aravindan M, Rohit T Gurav	Kaveripakkam Government Boys Higher Secondary School, Vellore District
11	Bio-Sensor Advisor: Prof. V V R Sai	Divagar M, Shyamili James, Sasikala Devi, Ankitha Theres George, Allwyn Rajamani, HariHaran	Semmancheri Government Higher Secondary School, Kanchipuram District

Our second implementation is being carried out in three districts of Tamilnadu. During the year 2019-2021, around 400 ninth grade students will directly benefit from the training and mentoring provided by around 75 Graduate Students from IIT Madras. Details are as below.

Participant Details: 2019 - 2021

Sl. No	Lab Names	Graduate Students (Mentors)	Schools
1	Construction Material Laboratory (CML) Advisor: Prof. Ravindra Gettu	Sundar R, Ram VG, Dyana Joselin, Swathy Manohar, Rohit Prajapati, Naveen Krishanan	Ekanampet Government Girls Higher Secondary School, Kanchipuram District
2	Construction Material Laboratory (CML) Advisor: Prof. Manu Santhanam	Vaishnav Kumar S, Yuvraj D, Ramesh B, Deepak Kamde, Anusha S B, Shanthanu Bhattacharjee, Sreelakshmi	Thiruninravur Government Higher Secondary School, Tiruvallur District
3	Building Technology Construction Management (BTCM) Advisor: Prof. Radhakrishna Pillai & Prof. Piyush Chaunsali	Mohan Chandra, Prabha, Komathi, Karthikeyan, Subham, Pavan	Manavalanagar KENC Government Higher Secondary School, Tiruvallur District
4	Bio- Materials Advisor: Prof.Vignesh Muthuvijayan	Bala Vigneswaran, Joseph, Hemalatha, Aadhinath, Vasudha, Akhil, Megala, Vaibhav	Nandhivaram Government Girls Higher Secondary School, Kanchipuram District
5	Neuro Mechanics Advisor: Prof.Varadhan SKM	Anurag Gupta, Balamurugan Subramaniyan, Vignesh SG, Swarnab Dutta	Karapakkam Government High School, Kanchipuram District
6	Wave Energy and Fluids Engineering Lab (WEFEL) Advisor: Prof. Abdus Samad	Tapas Kumar Das, Madhan Kumar, Murali K, Francis V, Rishav Raj, Gautam M	Poonamalle Arignar Anna Government Boys Higher Secondary School, Tiruvallur District
7	Systems Engineering of the Natural and the Artificial @ IIT Madras (SENAI) Advisor: Prof. Raghunathan Rengasamy	Venkatraman N V, Suseendiran, Suryanarayanan G, Arun Sankar, Sukanya G, Malvika S, R.Ramya, Sathish S, Mohammed Shahab, Amit Bhosale, Arun M	Guruvarajapet Government Girls Higher Secondary School, Vellore District
8	Micro and Nano Scale transport & Machine Design Lab Advisors: Prof. Sarith P Sathian & Prof. Parag Ravindran	Binu Varghese, Aneesh K Johnny, KVS Dheeraj, Maheswaran B, Vidhyalakshmi K, Ravi Teja	Selaiyur Government (MPL) Higher Secondary School, Kanchipuram District
9	Pushpavanam's Research League Advisor: Prof.Pushpavanam S	Vamsi Vikram G, Uttam, Krishnaveni, Pralay, Prem Kumar Reddy, Eswar, A.Durgadevi	Nanmanglam Government High School, Kanchipuram District
10	Process Control Group Advisor: Prof. Arun K Tangirala's	Kanchan Aggarwal, Prem, Lokeshkumar R, Bala Rajesh, Priyan Bhattacharya, Sudhakar Kathari	Ponneri Government Boys Higher Secondary School, Tiruvallur District
11	Nano Materials Advisor: Prof. B.S.Murthy	Hariharan V S, Nischar Kaushik, Soumya Rajan, Rahul John, Khusbhu Dash, Karthick, Arpita	Porur Government Higher Secondary School, Tiruvallur District