IC lab - ATL REPORT
The projects 2019-2020
We started to make an impact at ATL in the year 2019-20 with the successful
completion of various projects
1. ATL Community Day – Innovative workshop was conducted during the
first week of April 2019.
2. ATL Tinkerfest was hosted in which 15 schools from Mysore, Hassan
and Bangalore participated.
3. One of our highlights that year was the Drone Challenge where the
students of classes XI and XII participated and won laurels.
4. One of the teams shortlisted for the Top 50 entries in the ATL Marathon
2018 got an opportunity to attend the 5 days Boot Camp at Atal
Incubation Centre.
5. As a part of the 5th edition of India International Science Festival. 18 of
our students participated the Student Science Village Program held in
Kolkata in the month of November 2019.
6. One of our students had the opportunity to attend a week long learning on
Deep Technology at Sirius Russia as a part of Atal Innovation Mission.
7. Excel Public School accorded membership to the New York Academy of
Sciences with 11% of applications across 112 countries shortlisted were
from our school.
8. Excel Public School won the Innovative School of the Year award at
STING 2020, a state level Science and Technology Fest organised by
Karnataka Science and Technology Academy.
The Projects 2020-21
As the pandemic forced us to switch to online mode of learning, the ATL
projects were also taken up in the online mode through google meets and zoom
calls for a major part. The programs conducted in ATL ranged from inhouse
weekly sessions, external mentor interactions and programs helping our students
to get national and international exposure.
I.
Some of the challenges where our students won laurels are
1. YIC (Young Inventors Challenge) – An innovation challenge from idea
to prototype with virtual viva session. Our students won laurels in this
challenge.
2. Vickathon Challenge – An international virtual hackathon challenge on
innovation where students from Israel, Hongkong, China and India
participated and won glories. Out of a mixed batch of students of different
nationalities grouped into 22 teams across grades 9 to 11, two teams
comprising EPS students were shortlisted among the top 3 pitches. Two of
our teams were judged as the winners and runners respectively.
3. ATL Community day challenge – a gaming challenge focussing on
societal impact conducted as a part of ATL. Our student was adjudged the
winners in this challenge.
4. ATL Marathon 2020 – A flagship project of ATL on design thinking.
The projects that were taken up were under the pillars of economy,
infrastructure, demography and demand. Three of our teams made it to
‘Top 300’ teams. The students who participated were from classes 7 to 12.
5. INSPIRE Manak award – Out of 4 students selected, two of our students
made it to the TOP 60 ideas.
6. At South India level, our students have won the Vidyarthi Vigyan
Manthan competition.
7. ATL Tinkerpreneur 2020 designed for high school students across the
nation, saw over 9,0000 participants across the nation. Spread across a
span of 9 weeks from May 31, 2021 the results were announced on
Thursday in which one of our student made it to Top 100 and 8 of our
teams were adjudged among the most consistent student performers.
8. Our school was also selected ATL School of the month - for three
consecutive months in 2020 that is the month of Aug-Sep-Oct.
9. Driven by Intel and CBSE pan India one of our student had his project
filed as Patent Pending Technology. He also got an opportunity to be a
part of ‘Intel AI for Youth Virtual Apprenticeship Program’ in support
with National Youth Council Singapore.
II.
Apart from the competitions, our students also participated in various
training sessions that helped them acquire these skills. To name a few
1. Coding and drone sessions where students were taught the basics of
drones and their working by an expert Mr Anurag Joshi from Indrone
aerosystem
2. Plezmo app development program in collaboration with ATL taught
coding to our students using visual basic.
3. Robotics weekly sessions on assembly and coding were conducted for a
duration of 6 months by an external mentor Mr Jagadeesh
4. A series of webinars on fundamentals of science named Let’s Talk
Science were conducted in the month of June.
5. Chatterati was a series of conversations with Subject Matter Experts to
explore questions in Mathematics, Astronomy, Life Science, Earth
Sciences, Material and Physical Sciences. This series helped students
explore concepts beyond what is explained in the textbooks and relate
concepts to real world situations.
6. Space Debris was an interaction session with students with the objective
of knowing Digantara and its role in managing Space Debris
7. Imaginarium India was a session on the art of making things digitally by
Dr Guruprasad.
8. The Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn was an inhouse streaming
and commentary session by Mr Kiran Prasad.
III.
Our new ventures
1. EYE (Excel Young Entrepreneurs) was an initiative to nurture the
entrepreneur mindset in our young learners. It was a 7-month inhouse
training session where the students underwent a complete product
development cycle, had interaction with schools like the Airforce school,
were given a simulation business game experience by CAPSIM and also
had biweekly expert talks.
2. Pitch Fest was the pioneering concept of pitching the innovation or ideas
to a diverse panel of experts. It was the culmination of the EYE program
that trained the students to pitch their ideas. The young entrepreneurs
were able to learn the tangible and intangible lessons of entrepreneurship
with the help of feedback given by the eminent jury.
3. NEST is the extension of the EYE program where students prepare the
proof of concept and build their product to be market ready. We have 4
teams who are getting ready to build their prototype.
IV.
The ongoing projects
1. ATL Space Challenge – where 51 students are participating to learn and
engage in creating new, efficient and innovative solutions for specific,
real-world challenges in the Space sector and develop solutions which
addresses the key problem areas of the challenge.
2. Vickathon 2021 where our students will participate in teams and explore,
ideate and express their thoughts on the challenge given, using their
ingenuity and creativity.
3. Project development program by New York Academy of Sciences
V.
Empowering Teachers
Workshops, webinars and discussions on tools like Adobe spark, Microsoft
products, Google products and app development products gave us a better
insight. Training sessions by Learning links foundation, CIPAM on Intellectual
property rights have helped our teachers push their creative boundaries in
handling online and offline classes and in turn empowered us to be 21st century
professionals.