The winner of Breakthrough Junior Challenge, Samay Godika, has made his parents, teachers, school and the entire nation proud. At the age of 16 years Samay won the challenge through his innovative video project in the Life Sciences category and is entitled for a 2.9 crore prize money.
The challenge is a global science video competition. The idea of which is to inspire young minds to think creatively about fundamental concepts in spheres like life sciences, physics, and mathematics.The challenge invites students between 13 to 18 years of age to create original videos that illustrate a concept or theory in the physical or life sciences. The students are judged upon their ability to communicate these complex scientific ideas in simple yet engaging and creative techniques.
Samay’s submission was in the Life Sciences category and broke down the concept of circadian rhythms (the working of our body clocks). This refers to the 24-hour biological processes that can affect simple daily experiences or activities, whether waking up for school, jet lag, etc
He zeroed in on this topic as it seemed to impact many facets of daily lives, including things like my asthma, the difficulty he face getting up early in the morning, etc. The fact that members of his family suffer from Parkinson’s and other neurological diseases motivated him further.
The teenager who now plans to pursue a formal programme in neuroscience, added, “Our brain seems to be the most complex system in this world, and the least understood. I am interested in building a solid foundation in this area. In parallel, I would also like to pursue a programme that allows me to formally learn Data Sciences.”
This isn’t the first time that the young Bengaluru lad participated in the science challenge. He couldn’t win last year, but came back this year.
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Makershala is a Learning by Making ecosystem for kids from age 8-16 to help them discover their interests, develop future skills and deepen conceptual understanding. Makershala follows the Project Based Learning approach as its way of teaching in which kids work on authentic, real life & personally meaningful projects.
Kids work on these projects in different educational settings, namely; self-learning; online 1:4 Peer to Peer with a mentor; or in a school. Projects are categorized in different interest segments like Robotics, Coding, Electronics, 3D Printing, Animations, Photography, Machine Learning, Astronomy and many more.
Each project is mapped with classroom concepts, 21st century skills, UN sustainable development goals and interests/careers to not only focus on holistic development of a child but help them identify their calling by giving them exposure to problems that exist in the real world.
Why Project-Based Learning
Project-Based Learning has the potential to solve many of the learning problems we see today beyond foundational literacy.
Ownership: Learners have complete ownership on what they need to know to solve a problem and come up with the best solution in the best way. It can be a concept or a software tool or a skill. Kids involved in projects are never required to be told to study.
Interdisciplinary: Unlike traditional learning where subjects are taught in silos and learners develop a perception of liking or disliking a subject. In project based learning, the given problem is supreme and it may require to know something from maths, science and history together.
Experiential learning: We generally retain 75% of what we do as opposed to only 5% of what we hear and 10% of what we read, hence PBL helps kids retain what they learn.
Lifelong learning: The most important gift that PBL gives to its learners is to make them lifelong learners as this is the most required skill to lead a good life, personally & professionally.
Skills & Knowledge balance: Project-based learning doesn’t focus too much on memorizing information, rather it equally demands practising life skills to be able to do better in projects.
How Makershala Works
Parents and Kids who wish to start their journey with Makershala, are suggested to pick one interest area of the child and then choose a plan.
Parents and Kids after enrolling in a course based on their interest are assigned a batch. Each batch has 3-4 learners and 1 mentor.
Each course has 6 guided projects and 1 challenge project.
During the project, formative assessments are conducted to evaluate learner’s knowledge & skills.
On completion of a project parents and kids get a learning report which indicates the skills and knowledge developed/displayed by them.
Kids also build their portfolio which showcases problems solved, solutions created, skills developed, knowledge acquired and technologies learnt.
Kids earn rewards in the form of badges, points and coins for their performance in a project, course and overall.
Kids are maneuvered to take up courses and projects from different learning segments to gain more clarity on their interests. This eventually helps them in picking up a career.
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