IIT Gandhinagar inaugurates ‘Maker Bhavan’ to accelerate active learning

NEW DELHI: The Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) inaugurated Maker Bhavan on Saturday - a multidimensional academic makerspace to nurture innovative thinking and hands-on learning among students.

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Hemant Kanakia, founder of the Maker Bhavan Foundation, a California-based charity and the leading supporter for the creation of this makerspace at the Institute, inaugurated the makerspace in the presence of Damayanti Bhattacharya, CEO, Maker Bhavan Foundation, Parimal Karani, Businessman and a long-time well-wisher of IITGN, and Prof Amit Prashant, Director, IITGN.

“Maker Bhavan is envisaged to be a catalyst for transforming pedagogic practices and ensuring that active learning, creativity, and innovation become an integral part of teaching and learning at IITGN,” the official statement read.

“It is a world-class makerspace designed on the lines of MIT and Caltech, with teamwork areas, a creative studio, and a variety of digital manufacturing equipment and electronics labs to motivate students to convert their ideas into real prototypes. It aims to turn students into doers, leaders and innovators,” the institute said.

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The facility will prove to be highly beneficial for students, faculty, alumni, industry partners of IITGN and in the long-term the educational practitioners from other institutions around the country with its state-of-the-art makerspaces, novel curricular and co-curricular programmes, significant industry engagement, internship opportunities, lecture series, conferences, hands-on workshops, and so on, it said.