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Honeywell, Agastya bring Honeywell Science experience to government schools in south India

July 17, 2018 Pankaj Maru

Hyderabad: Agastya International Foundation (Agastya) and Honeywell India has announced the expansion of Honeywell Science Experience – an experiential science education program for students and teachers of government schools in Hyderabad, Chennai, Madurai, and Mysore. As part of the program, Honeywell’s not-for-profit entity, Honeywell Hometown Solutions India Foundation (HHSIF), is supporting 25 science centers, 35 mobile science labs, and 3,000 student mentors, benefiting more than 135,000 students and 783 teachers across all these cities as well as Bengaluru, Gurugram, Delhi, and Pune. Designed to cultivate curiosity, nurture creativity, and instill…

Agastya, Verizon join hands to empower hundreds of children through STEM education

July 13, 2018July 13, 2018 Pankaj Maru

Bangalore: Agastya International Foundation, a leading non-profit that makes quality education accessible to rural schools, has partnered with Verizon India for a well-calibrated Mobile Science Lab (MSL) for 20 schools that will benefit more than 2800 students in Arakkonam District, Tamil Nadu. MSL is designed to boost STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) education in locations away from cities. Its key objective is to enrich the learning of science with experiments and demonstrations for children from class 5-9 who have limited or no access to academic laboratories otherwise. The teaching…