HYDERABAD: Agastya International Foundation (Agastya) and Honeywell India’s Science Experience Centre have been now expanded to Hyderabad wherein students and teachers from government schools will do experimental science programmes. This programme is being run in Bengaluru, Gurugram and Pune which will foster Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) education which has expanded in Chennai, Madurai, and Mysore, apart from Hyderabad.
As part of the programme, Honeywell’s not-for-profit entity Honeywell Hometown Solutions India Foundation (HHSIF) is supporting 25 science centres, 35 mobile science labs, and 3,000 student mentors, benefitting more than 1,35,000 students and 783 teachers across all these cities as well as Bengaluru, Gurugram, Delhi, and Pune. Honeywell Science Experience targets middle and high school students and teachers in government schools.
Speaking at the programme expansion on Tuesday, Jayesh Ranjan, IT Secretary said: “We are living in the fourth industrial era where application-based education will have a more profound impact on students, making them skilled citizens of tomorrow. Experiential learning improves critical thinking and helps students apply classroom concepts to real-world challenges.” The programme aims to foster child and teacher participation in experiential learning, and boost science education through its uniquely scalable, hands-on teaching-learning methods.
K Thiagarajan, Chief Operating Officer, Agastya International Foundation said: "Telangana has been an important area in delivering Agastya’s vision and mission. The Government institutions have been encouraging and endorsing our outreach programmes in several locations. Today, we are reaching out to more than 200 schools through our diverse set of programmes. We are aspiring to set up a Creativity Campus in Telangana in the next two to three years."
