Innovation Hub

♤ In News:Innovation Hub was inaugurated at the Nehru Science Centre.

♤ This new facility, the fifth in the chain of Innovation hubs developed by National Council of Science Museums (NCSM) and National Innovation Council, is aimed at fostering the creative faculty among students by emphasizing on inquiry-based learning and promoting crave for lifelong learning.

♤ To encourage school children to explore scientific discoveries, 100 innovation hubs would be established throughout the country by 2017.

♤ Despite an apparent chaos that India is known for, there are several grassroot innovations which are impacting the society. Innovation Hubs would motivate and excite young minds, and provide a proper ambience to promote grassroot innovations.

♤ The Innovation Hub includes:

o Hall of Fame: Inventions and Inventors — Includes several multimedia kiosks bring the stories of major inventors and their inventions in various fields.

o Innovation Resource Centre — Equipped with a broadband Internet connection, it provides online access to innovation-centric resources, e-journals, books and grass-root innovation portals.

o Innovative Laboratory: Equipped to carry out innovative activities, experiments and projects in a multi-disciplinary set up.

o Tech Lab: Robotics & Microprocessor Programming, Electronics — Facilitates creative and innovative projects in robotics, electronics and microprocessor programming, Apps development for mobiles etc for practical applications.

o TodFodJod (TFJ)* — Place where students can creatively engage in learning to open gadgets and reassemble them on their own.

o Kabad Se Jugad (Build from Scraps) — Students can use low-cost materials to develop interesting models or science toys and perform investigative experiments.

o Idea Box — Students are encouraged to write down innovative ideas and submit them to idea bank. The best ideas are chosen for further development as project work.

o The Lab — With facility for experimentation in Physics, Chemistry, Electronics, Biology, Robotics, etc also provides opportunity for students to work on innovative ideas and make a working model or kit on it and perform several investigative experiments.