Mira Model School - Innovation Lab

Open Source Softwares Mentor Name:   Prachi Manchanda Profile :- Studying at   Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology Intern @Microsoft  Contributor @Systers @coala  Google APAC WTM Scholar  GHC India scholar  Date: 10th Oct. 2017 Details: GitHub  brings together the world's largest community of developers to discover, share, and build better software. From open source projects to private team repositories, we're your all-in-one platform for collaborative development. GitHub  is where people build software. More than 27 million people use  GitHub  to discover, fork, and contribute to over 80 million  projects . Mentors from our participating organizations lend a helping hand as participants learn what it’s like to work on an open source  project .  ... Spend your summer break writing code and learning about open source development while earning money!  Accepted students work with a mentor and ...

Teacher's Training Programme Conducted by:- Building Blocks Resource Person : Mr. Sahil Rastogi  Dates:- 13th Sept., 2017 to 16th Sept.,  2017 Teachers Participants Names: 1. Ms. Neena Ahuja 2. Ms. Shelly  3. Ms. Gurpreet Kaur 4. Ms. Richa Bhardwaj 5. Ms. Reena Ramanan 6. Ms. Harpreet Kaur 7. Mr. R. K. Pal 8. Ms. Bhavna Baveja Session I :  ROBOTICS Session II: Physical computing Session II: 3D Printing

UX Designing User Experience Designing Session Mentor Name :   ALEX COX OBEROI Profile: Graduate from University of Michigan, USA Date of Session 19 April, 2017 Number of Students attended:- 25 Students of classes X to XII attended this session. Details: User experience (UX) design is the process of creating products that provide meaningful and personally relevant experiences. This involves the careful design of both a product’s  usability  and the  pleasure  consumers will derive from using it. It is also concerned with the  entire  process of acquiring and integrating the product, including aspects of branding, design, usability, and function.

Basics of Electronics Understand  Closed Circuits Open Circuits Resistance Current Voltage Power Watt Ohm's Law Series and Parallel Circuits Basic Components- LED, Resistor, Capacitor, Transistor, switch, push button, diode, IC, DC motor,Batteries, BreadBoards, Jumper wires,...

WHAT IS TINKERING? Tinkering is to find innovative and creative solutions to problems which may be local or global in nature. How does Tinkering Work? Identifying the problem Thinking out of the box and generating multiple ideas Testing those ideas Zeroing on one idea Adding technology to this idea and giving it a proper shape Having a real time solution as a project/prototype What do the students learn? Module I- Digital Literacy:- Understand the basics of using computers and becoming digitally safe. Module II-  Ideation :- Generate multiple ideas for a problem. Module III- Design Thinking :- Process to refine ideas and giving them proper shape. Module IV- Computational Thinking :-  Process to convert the idea into the prototype. Module V- Physical Thinking :- Process to convert prototypes to real projects.