Amrita ATL Marathon Training and Mentorship Program 2021-22

ATL Marathon is a national level innovation challenge, where school students identify community problems of their choice and develop innovative solutions in the form of working prototypes. The innovative solutions are recognized and presented at several national and international level platforms.

Get an overview of the ATL Marathon at  https://www.secondfoundationinitiative.org/atl-marathon

ATL Marathon 2021 edition celebrated the resilience, diversity and achievements of India as we begin the 75th year of Independence. To commemorate this special year, ATL Marathon 2021 drew inspiration from developing a New India with the innovation and creativity of the young minds of our country. The Marathon was based on the ‘Strategy for New India @ 75’ document by NITI Aayog. This national strategy document for New India is a detailed exposition of forty-one crucial areas of national importance for achieving the objectives for a New India by 2022-23. ATL Marathon 2021 adopted four strategy areas or themes mentioned in the document – Healthcare & Nutrition, Education, Energy & Transport, Social Inclusion.

AIM Mentors of Change, IEEE Volunteers and researchers from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri campus trained children in skills such as app development, robotics, physical computing and IoT over a period of 3.5 months and mentored them to create their own innovation prototypes. Volunteers taught children to research problem statements, ideate solutions for their chosen problem statement, identify the best possible solution and create working prototypes. Children worked with MIT Media Lab's Scratch Programming language, MIT App Inventor, Google's Teachable Machine, Lego Mindstorm kits, BBC Micro:bit kit, and a variety of maker tools to build innovative prototypes for their ideas. 


Program highlights:

ATL Marathon Themes and Problem Statements

Education

Energy & Transportation

Health & Nutrition

Social Inclusion

Training Sessions and Workshops given by Mentors

Recordings of Training Sessions are available on this link 

Exclusive Training Sessions for Teachers

Meet the schools

Amrita Vidyalayam, Puthiyakavu

K S puram P O, Karunagappally, 

Kollam, Kerala, India 

Amrita Vidyalayam, Thalassery

Maakoottam, Punnol,

Thalassery, Kerala, India

Amrita Vidyalayam, Kochi

Kunnumpuram, Edapally North P.O., 

Ernakulam, Kerala, India 

Meet the ATL teachers

 Ms. Deepa M. V.

AV Puthiyakavu

       Ms. Rejitha        AV Puthiyakavu

Ms. Jincy Sreejith  AV Thalassery

Ms. Seema 

AV Thalassery

Ms. Manju 

AV Kochi

Meet the mentor team

Gayathri Manikutty
Research faculty at AMMACHI Labs, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, IEEE STEM Ambassador, AIM Mentor of Change

Parvathy Krishnan 

Data Scientist at the World Bank, Alumni of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, AIM Mentor of Change

Marco Sangiorgio (Prabodh) 

A320 Base Maintenance, Zone Leader @ Dublin Aerospace, AIM Mentor of Change 

Girinath Pillai 

Coordinator for Drug Discovery Hackathon by MoE, Govt of India, 

Chief Scientific officer, Zastra Innovations, Bengaluru, 

Research scientist, 

Nyro Research India, Kochi, AIM Mentor of Change 

Ganesh Narayanan
Senior Researcher at Amrita Center for Wireless Networks & Applications (Amrita WNA) , Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, AIM Mentor of Change

Sreejith S

Researcher at AMMACHI Labs, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, IEEE STEM Ambassador, AIM Mentor of Change

Pranav Prabha Researcher at AMMACHI Labs, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, IEEE STEM Ambassador

Lakshmi Gopal 

PhD Researcher at Amrita Center for Wireless Networks & Applications (Amrita WNA) , Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham

Aswathy A

PhD Researcher at Amrita Center for Wireless Networks & Applications (Amrita WNA) , Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham

Aswathy M

 Researcher at Amrita Center for Wireless Networks & Applications (Amrita WNA) , Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham

Liya M L 

Researcher at Amrita Center for Wireless Networks & Applications (Amrita WNA) , Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham