Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has announced to adopt 100 Atal Tinkering Labs across the country to promote education in the field of Space Education and Space Technology related innovations for school students.
- An Atal Tinkering Lab, a NITI Aayog initiative, provides a makerspace where young minds can give shape to their ideas through hands on do-it-yourself mode and learn innovation skills.
- To foster entrepreneurship and innovation, Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog has established over seven thousand Atal Tinkering Labs across the country.
- Through this collaboration, ISRO will facilitate coaching and mentoring of students in advanced cutting-edge technologies of the 21st century including those related to space.
- The students will not only gain only theoretical but also practical and application-based knowledge of STEM and Space Education related concepts such as Electronics, Physics, Optics, Space Technology, Material sciences and many more.
