Dr. Nitte Shankara Adyanthaya Memorial English Medium CBSE School has been selected by the Government of India for setting up the ATL. ₹ 12 lakhs for setting up the lab and in 4 years ₹ 8 lakhs will be funded by the Government of India. This Atal Tinkering lab was inaugurated on 22 nd June 2018, Friday by Sri N. Vinaya Hegde, Chancellor of Nitte Deemed to be University and the President o the Nitte Education Trust.
Speaking on the occasion Mr. Hegde said that the students would use the lab to become good innovators.
This lab was set up under the able guidance of Dr. Suryanarayan, Asst. Professor NMAMIT and a group of engineering students. At present the lab is equipped with Sound Detectors, Dancing Robot, Mechanical Engines, Bluetooth car and many more science based models.
The objective of this scheme is to foster curiosity, creativity and imagination in young minds; and inculcate skills such as design mindset, computational thinking, adaptive learning, physical computing etc.