Looking for areas of improvement in one’s own school is the first step of leveraging an Atal Tinkering Lab. This is what the innovators of Kendriya Vidyalaya Kanchanbagh did with their school Bell.

Though we live in 21st century and technology being a part of our daily lives, many hundreds of schools across the nation use traditional methods of hitting a metal using a stone as an indication of a period ending and beginning of another. At many schools either the schools support staff has to ring the bell or the students themselves, which may result in poor time management.

“The advantage of this design is that the bell rings at the start of each period and also announces the period number without any human intervention to a great degree of accuracy and hence takes over the manual task of switching on/off the school bell with respect to time. It offers complete customization of the schedule daily. Also, it has an option of holidays which can be set and the system will not ring on those holidays.”

Such innovations created out of emphasizing with the people around one hones their Design Thinking skills and makes them better innovators