Since March 2022, CCL has been engaged with delivering online sessions to 746 KGBV schools in Uttar Pradesh every Tuesday and Thursday through Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan UP. In these sessions, around 100 girls from each school connect over Zoom to our lab in IIT. Using the materials provided from our Khoji Dabba they see and experience simple science experiments every week. After the 1 hour sessions, they enthusiastically post photos and videos of themselves doing the experiment on Telegram and have shown a great deal of interest over the year. This program is expected to continue in 2023 as well. 

​A 5-day residential camp (Vigyan Jyoti) based on experiential learning was piloted from June 12th to 16th, 2018. When it led to a positive response, to assess its impact objectively, a second one was conducted from June 18th to 22nd, 2018 and the third from January 21t to 25th, 2019. 25 meritorious students of Class 6 – 8 were selected from Government Schools each time, to participate in this workshop. The primary aim of the program was to create STEM enabling environment and strengthen the scientific temper of participants. 

In collaboration with AMC (Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation), we aimed to make middle school ( Classes 6-8 ) science and math hands-on, conceptual and joyous. Project Spark was meant to ignite the curiosity of children by exposing them to a plethora of low-cost science and mathematics toys and activities which can be made using everyday materials and inspire them in STEM.The year 2018 was productive, focused and result oriented. We worked with one grade 7 class in 7 Schools from different zones : Nava Vadaj Hindi, Mahatma Gandhi -1, Shahpur Urdu School,  Bardolpura,  Baheramapura, Purusottam Nagar and Bapunagar. 
 

We took 2 hour sessions each week at each school, conducting a total of 276 hours of inspiring sessions. 200+ students attended these sessions regularly. 35+ Science and Math teachers of that school and of another 2 schools also came during our sessions. Our sessions were mainly activity-based and interactive. We focused on engaging students as much as possible and kept the blackboard work as little as possible. We had regular interaction with teachers and shared ideas.

Center of Creative Learning, IIT Gandhinagar came up with a very innovative idea of making lamps this year .We launched a series called D20 Lamps (20 Days 20 Math Lamps) from Dussehra to Diwali. The idea originated from an episode of 3030 Stem. These DIY paper lamps were beautiful and easy to make. The  lamps were exclusively designed at our lab. The design template and the procedure to make them was available on our YouTube channel.
The team released  videos of how to make a new lamp every day from Dussehra to 
Diwali. The team not only described the procedure  to make lamps but also explained the math behind them for those who are interested learning about platonic solids. The lamps are made out of paper and designed such that not just adults but children can easily make them.

We started on this journey on 12 Dec 2016 when the 5 minute meeting with Chief Minister Dr Raman Singh lasted 25 minutes. He really liked this upside down tippy top. We had made this top by sticking a neem stick in the base of used badminton shuttlecock. Ordinary looking, this tippy top had very interesting physics behind it.

Looking at these toys Dr Singh suggested that we visit all districts of Chhattisgarh and work with teachers. Working with a young director of RSA Qaiser Haque we chalked out a plan of series of workshops in Chhattisgarh. In the first leg of this program we visited 11 districts of Chattisgarh all the way from Bastar, Kanker, DHamtari and Gariaband in South Chattisgarh to districts adjoining capital Raipur, Rajnandgaon, Bilaspur and all the way to Korea, Surguja, Balrampur and Surajpur in North Chattisgarh. Feedback from teachers was overwhelming. They unanimously said that this was their best workshop.

A workshop on Lego at structures was conducted for visitors of all ages at IIT GN, where participants attempted to create long and stable load bearing bridges using Lego pieces. 

Primary school students of Riverside School in Ahmedabad attended a one day workshop at the CCL Lab at IIT GN and explored various science and Math principles with toys and games. 

An elective course at IITGN, this was a short course offered to students. Many little-known theorems of advanced mathematics were introduced on a roller coaster ride from delightful self-working magic tricks to serious math, then back again to magic. The tricks don’t require any sleight of hand or trickery. A similar course is taught at Stanford University by a former professional magician named Persi Diaconis. At school, Diaconis supported himself by playing poker on ships between New York and South America. Martin Gardner, a writer at Scientific American, once saw him and recommended to a professor for Ph.D. at Harvard University.

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In two days, students learnt about Hummer shuffles, Royal Hummer, de Bruijn Sequences, Universal Cycles, Mandelbrot Set, Neat Shuffles and many more card tricks. At the end of this course, participants had about 10 cool card tricks up their sleeve and were comfortable exploring many more as you would know the terminology of math card tricks by the end of the course.