The STEAM Lab at VVA hopes to encourage students to develop a passion for Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math (STEAM) by introducing it to them at a young age and engaging them with cool, new learning spaces featuring Robotics, Electronics, 3D Designing, Aeromodelling, Basic Science, Pottery and Astronomy.
The STEAM Lab curriculum starts with basic science activities for the students of classes 1 to 3. The students engage in activities like making a tornado in a bottle, magic milk experiment, walking water, why do things float and sink, magic milk, making a balloon powered car to name a few, etc.
The students of class 4 are being exposed to Scratch coding. The activities developed for Scratch coding are fun and exciting with the involvement of animated characters. The children are given a task that they have to execute on the animated character and this helps to make learning enjoyable.
The STEAM Lab has been nurturing the creativity in the students of class 5 and 6 through 3D designing and printing. Tinker-cad is an easy to interact online platform for 3D designing. The students are taught to use Tinker-cad resources and create various designs like build a simple house and create their own creative name keychains.
The students are given a live demonstration of using the 3D printer. A name keychain was printed in 3D in the live interactive sessions.
The STEAM lab hosts a dedicated environment for Astronomy study. The students are encouraged to observe the objects visible in the night sky like the Moon, from their homes and keep a track on the changing phases of the Moon.
Coordinator:
Tr. Gayle Fernandes
STEAM Lab In-Charge