Where students stop asking "how does it work?" and start asking "what can I make?"
A STEM maker space built to the Atal Tinkering Lab framework. Students design and build solutions to problems in their own village, with kits, a design-thinking curriculum, teachers trained as mentors, and support that keeps the lab in use.
Problem: the school water tank overflows every morning
Students ask the school caretaker how the tank is filled each morning, and watch where the water goes.
The tank overflows because nobody can tell from the ground when it is full.
A float switch? A buzzer? A light the caretaker can see from the gate? Each team sketches at least ten ideas.
A water-level sensor and a buzzer on a microcontroller, tested first in a cardboard model of the tank.
The alarm runs on the real tank for a week. Students count the litres saved and fix what didn't work.
Anylan Foundation's Innovation & Tinkering Lab is a STEM maker space for government schools in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, built to the Atal Tinkering Lab framework. Students use robotics, electronics, IoT and fabrication tools to design and build solutions to real local problems. Each lab comes with kits, a design-thinking curriculum, teacher training and ongoing support, funded through CSR.
More labs are coming to government schools. Keeping them in use is the hard part, so every lab comes with the people and plan to run it, not just the equipment.
Ultima kits to build and program machines, with block coding in Hindi, Marathi or English.
Sensors, circuits and connected devices that measure and respond to the world.
A 3D printer and hand tools to turn a sketch into a physical prototype. Schools can add a Unimat makerspace: child-safe machines for woodturning, sawing, sanding and drilling, with metalworking and CNC sets for older students.
Challenge assignments in our curriculum take students through the design-thinking process: empathise, define, ideate, prototype, test.
Every tinkering lab comes with Ultima kits. Kits and tool walls by Grobots, the robotics brand of our implementation partner. Product photos.
Many tinkering labs have the equipment but not the routine. A CSR partner can fund the support that brings a quiet lab back into weekly use, often for much less than a new lab. One on-site resource person looks after up to five nearby schools.
These results come from Atal Tinkering Labs set up by our implementation partner in government schools. They show what a lab that stays in use makes possible.
Government school students in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, guided by their ATL in-charge Dr. Dhananjay Pandey, built "Atal Krishi Mitra": one machine that ploughs, sows, cuts, sprays and irrigates at the same time. It was among the Top 50 projects of the ATL Marathon 2018, was shown at Rashtrapati Bhavan, and was granted Indian Patent No. 500218 in 2024.
Government school students in Ashta, Madhya Pradesh designed and built a working electric car in their Atal Tinkering Lab in 2021, from motor and suspension to steering and wiring.
Partner record · Video: the electric car project itself, a short silent highlight. Photo: an Atal Tinkering Lab set up by our implementation partner in a client school; it shows lab activity, not the patent project itself. About our implementation partner →
For a new lab or an existing ATL. We'll send a quote and offer you a visit to a working lab.
Message us on WhatsApp or email us with your organisation, the number of schools and the region you have in mind. We'll reply with a quote.
Or call Sapan Jain on +91 70242 30852.
An Atal Tinkering Lab (ATL) is a school maker space set up under the Atal Innovation Mission of NITI Aayog, where students from Class 6 to Class 12 build projects with electronics, robotics, sensors and 3D printing. Anylan Foundation's Innovation & Tinkering Lab is built to the same framework.
Yes. Promoting education is listed under Schedule VII (ii) of the Companies Act, 2013. Anylan Foundation is registered with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs to implement CSR projects (CSR-1: CSR00096762).
Yes. An on-site resource person, shared by up to five nearby schools, runs sessions with the ATL in-charge, trains teachers, and uses our curriculum's challenge assignments to teach design thinking. We also handle repairs and report lab usage to the funder.
An on-site resource person covering up to five nearby schools costs ₹55,000–60,000 a month, depending on location. That is about ₹11,000–12,000 per school a month. The cost covers the resource person only.
The Robotics & AI Lab follows a grade-wise curriculum from Grade 3 to Grade 9. The Innovation & Tinkering Lab is an open maker space where students design and build solutions to real problems around them.
Grades 6 to 12, the same classes Atal Tinkering Labs serve.
Working solutions to real problems, such as water-saving alarms, farm sensors and safety devices, using robotics, electronics, IoT and design thinking. Labs supported by our implementation partner have produced a student patent and a student-built electric car.
