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Invention Factory 2024

Applications Open Till 31st March

 
 

Re-Making Engineering Education to Transform India’s Future

We act as a global resource for Indian engineering colleges to provide access to tools, equipment, financial resources and knowledge so that the education imparted is more relevant and responsive to the real-life needs of students and society at large.

 

Our plans for the next 5 years

Expand to 50 higher education institutions to adopt our programs touching the lives of 250,000 students.

 

Why should you get involved

You care about Indian Engineering education and want to see India become a global leader in STEM education and innovation.

Our Work

Our mission is focused on unlocking the transformative potential of engineering education in jumpstarting innovation in India. We work with higher education institutions (HEIs) to provide access to world-class equipment, resources and knowledge to integrate new methods of teaching and learning into the existing engineering curriculum. By cultivating such maker learning ecosystems, we hope to contribute towards developing a nation of makers, – the next generation of master innovators, real problem solvers, confident builders, and ethical leaders.

Programs

Tinkerers’ Lab

Student managed facilities that embody our learn-by-doing philosophy, helping to  produce engineers and technologists who traverse the twin world of theoretical knowledge and hands-on practice with equal ease.

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Collaborative Classrooms

Collaborative Classrooms & Project Based Courses

Disrupting traditional divisions between classrooms and lab spaces our collaborative classrooms promote Outcome Based Engineering Education (OBE) by creating active learning spaces that encourage students to test concepts, build prototypes and find solutions to real-life problems.

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Invention Factory

Invention Factory

An intensive six week summer workshop conducted in partnership with US Cooper Union Professors Alan Wolf and Eric Lima (Founders), to teach students how to invent, build prototypes and patent their inventions.

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CES

Center for Essential Skills

The Centre for Essential Skills ©Maker Bhavan Foundation offers ten courses on essential cognitive, soft skills to prepare students for a seamless transition from classrooms to careers.

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Vishwakarma Awards

Vishwakarma Awards

Vishwakarma Award, founded by the © Maker Bhavan Foundation, is a nationwide thematic challenge to encourage talented student teams to build innovative, deployable prototypes rapidly and with impact.

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LEAP

LEAP (Learn Engineering through Activity Program)

LEAP is based on a unique project-based learning curriculum whereby young undergraduate students are given engineering design projects to solve real problems of society and deliver working prototypes with strict cost and time constraints.

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Events

Upcoming events at the Maker Bhavan Foundation.

Vishwakarma Award 2023

An annual competition for engineering innovation to crown and champion technology innovators from Science and Engineering colleges in India. The award is conferred upon the best innovation which helps to solve a real-life problem based on the theme decided every year. Themes for the competition this year are Water and Sanitation, Smart Mobility & Clean Tech.

Applications are now closed for the year 2023

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Be a Patron

We are a US-based Charitable Organization allowed to receive tax-free donations from abroad. If you are interested in exploring impactful initiatives in education, innovation or changes in the workforce, do consider a collaborative partnership with us. Contact us to know more about current programs or new initiatives in the pipeline that require support.

Be a Partner

We are receiving applications from HEI’s interested in gaining support to set up Tinkerers’ Labs or initroducing soft skill courses from our Center for Essential Skills at their own institutions. Contact us to know more details about the application process and to get access to all our resources.

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“The Maker Bhavan Foundation has been a very valuable partner for IIT Gandhinagar in strengthening our agenda to embed active learning as a core value in the educational experience of our students. We hope that this partnership between the MB Foundation and IITGN will be path breaking in introducing the culture of Maker Education across institutions of higher education in India.”

Prof. Sudhir JainDirector, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar
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“It's been truly a pleasure to work with the outstanding students at IIT over the past few summers. We were impressed by the students' excellent knowledge-base, energy, and passion to help people through their chosen profession of engineering. The students' willingness to work intensively on their inventions caused us to redouble our commitment to mentor them and drive them to produce their best work. We like to think that a program in inventing and patenting is valuable to and appreciated by the school's students particularly given that IITGN prides itself on its modern and innovative engineering curriculum. During our two summers in India, we felt welcomed and supported by the IITGN community, including the students, faculty and staff. We are looking forward to the programme running again at IIT Gandhinagar and IIT Bombay in the summer of 2021.”

Alan Wolf and Eric LimaFounders, Invention Factory Programme, Cooper Union College, USA
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“I found Invent@IITGN as the best place where I could work on a real-life problem, where my creativity won't be confined to just my engineering stream. The structure of this programme not only made me confident about my inventive potential but also made me learn how to respectfully address the criticism of my work. Invent@IITGN was one of the best learning experiences I have ever had.”

Yash SharmaStudent, IT Kharagpur, Winner, Best Invention, Invent@IITGN2018t
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“Working in TL fulfilled the conception I had while preparing for JEE, about how engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology ought to be...It is true that most of the project done at TL are hobby projects, spontaneous in nature, not goal-directed and often unfinished. But that precisely is what makes TL so unique, so amazing. For every 1000 naive attempts, 100 may attempt turning it into a product, 1 may sustain and hit a jackpot. TL allows for those naive attempts in the first place by making it easier to build, by causing serendipitous events. By inspiring.”

Chirag ShettyTL Alumnus, IITB, Graduate researcher at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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“TL has the potential to make learning practical and hands-on in engineering colleges of India. TL at IIT Bombay provides students with a platform led by them who otherwise, would have to rely largely on classroom learning. The time gap between thinking of a project and actually implementing it is significantly reduced with the presence of TL. This initiative has the potential to transform the way engineers are created in India in the years to come.”

Ashima MittalTL alumnus, IIT Bombay

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