Will give a major boost to realize the vision of the mission to ‘Cultivate One Million children in India as the Innovators of tomorrow’

The young students who have already got exposure to creative technology platforms to nurture their curiosity, creativity and imagination from ATLs in their schools, have already started designing prototype solutions and started creative projects such as better irrigation management, waste management, and sensor based solutions using IOT devices and Robotics in their Labs.

ATLs will help our country to transform Young students to Young Innovators. This will be big opportunity for students to build the ‘New India' of their dreams by 2022. The active participation by Schools and their students in ATL will power the transformations of ‘New India' through their creativity and innovation.

The labs are designed to spur the spark of creativity, and go beyond regular curriculum and text book learning. The labs will also enable students explore skills of future such as design and computational thinking, adaptive learning and artificial intelligence.

The 2441 schools have been selected from over 25000+ applications till date from two round of applications. It will enhance the coverage of ATLs to over 98% Smart cities, 93%+ of the districts (655+ districts). Its spread is evident from the fact that there will now be at least one or more ATLs in 34 States and Union Territories across the country.

Lauding the newly selected 1500 Schools, the Mission Director of ATL, R. Ramanan said, "As part of our mission to ‘Transform India into an Innovative Country' the active engagement of ATLs is extremely important and far reaching in its implications" He has also appealed the new schools to comply speedily with the requirements as per ATL Guidelines for getting the funds for establishment and also ensure commencement of regular ATL Operations from the coming new academic sessions.

The ATLs will touch upon the all sections of our society to make the vision of the Prime Minister to build a ‘Creative India, an Innovative India'.

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