Kerala Infrastructure & Technology for Education (KITE), the Edtech arm of the state government, is setting up robotic labs in 2000 High Schools from December 2022, which will benefit 1.2 million school children.
V. Sivankutty, Minister for General Education, on Saturday said this will facilitate innovative ways for increasing the knowledge skills of students through fun learning and the inauguration of 9000 Robotics Labs through fun learning and the inauguration of 9000 Robotic Labs through Little KITEs-the largest ICT Network of students in India, would be done by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on December 8.
In addition to the deployment of Robotic Kits in schools, 4000 KITE Masters would also be trained using a specific training module on how to use this equipment in schools.
Students will also be trained in various activities, including development of Traffic Signal, Automatic Street light activated through light sensing, Electronic Dios, Automatic Door, Security Alarm.
Among the other training that would be imparted would be on Electronic Voting machine, Audio controlled Home Automation (IoT), Walking stick for Visually challenged.