AMMACHI Labs created the Second Foundation in 2016 as an education initiative for teaching 21st-century technology skills to school children and young adults in rural and semi urban India.
If the first foundation of education is provided by the school and community in the basic literacies and values, the 2nd Foundation fortifies these with the 21st century skills. We put equal emphasis on teaching essential life and social problem solving skills alongside advanced technical skills like programming, robotics, hardware prototyping, and more. This unique mix ensures that the youth build up resilience to face all eventualities that an unpredictable future brings.
COMBINING TECHNOLOGY WITH SOCIAL/EMOTIONAL LEARNING
The 2nd Foundation program reimagines education holistically and combines high technology with social and emotional learning. The workshops and year long programs are taught in schools across India and are delivered by STEM Trainers and mentors from AMMACHI Labs, fostering a peer-to-peer learning environment that is conducive to learning. The technical content and social/emotional learning content are woven together to create a unified platform for deeper and more integrated learning.
Our Workshops
Our Annual Programs
Mentorship for ATL Marathon
ATL Marathon is a national level competition where Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), Niti Aayog brings in a new themes based on SDGs every year for student innovators to carefully research, ideate, innovate and create working prototypes of their innovations. The top teams of ATL Marathon get a chance to further refine their work through various immersion programs such as the Student Innovator Program, Corporate Internship Programs, and Student Entrepreneurship Programs.
Mentorship for ATL Tinkerprenuer Summer Bootcamp
ATL Tinkerprenuer is a 7 week summer boot camp for K-12 school students organized by Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), NITI Aayog to equip them with 21st century digital and entrepreneurial skills to build their digital ventures and launch them online. The Top 100 student teams from India get an opportunity to undergo a 5-week mentorship program with Indian School of Business to learn advanced business skills to transform themselves from Tinkerpreneurs into digital product entrepreneurs or Digipreneurs.
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