We wanted to update you on an event we conducted on Feb 28th in partnership with United Way Hyderabad, Qualcomm and Aqriti. JSIC (Janyaa Social Innovation Challenge) is Janyaa’s initiative where we provide a platform for students to come up with solution models for problems in their communities. The concepts they have learnt from our JLIB…
Enabling Innovation & Creativity
Janyaa facilitators share their experience
Facilitators are the key to the success of our program. They are the ones who go from one school to the next, provide support to teachers in using our experiments, and advance peer learning sessions for students. Essentially, they are the heart and soul of our JLIB (Janyaa Lab In a Box) program. If they are motivated…
Bringing Janyaa Program to Nigeria
In partnership with Rotary, we have officially started Janyaa program in Nigeria. Teachers have been trained, and we are very excited! We were told that these teachers are also very enthusiastic about using our experiments. Good to know 🙂
Janyaa/United Way Schools Visit
Janyaa founder Ms. Venu Nadella is currently in India visiting the schools where we partnered with United Way, Hyderabad to implement Janyaa program in 50 schools. Below is the note from Venu Nadella summarizing her visit. During my first school visit, children were busy with peer learning sessions. The girls were very excited about their…
Janyaa – KPMG partnership
As we continue our journey through 2020, we would like to share Janyaa’s accomplishments from the past few months. We are partnering with KPMG India to provide training to school teachers where we are implementing the Janyaa program. We conducted trainings in schools in Kothagudem (Telangana, India). Demos were given to teachers on the experiments…
Janyaa Nature Lab – Grow to learn
Janyaa Nature Lab (JNL) is an in-school initiative where children can apply Janyaa Lab In a Box(JLIB) science & math concepts to nature. The idea is to encourage schools to grow gardens in their premises under the ownership of children. School gardens are an effective way to use the schoolyard as a classroom, reconnect students with…
Scientific Rangoli – Creativity Explored
At Janyaa, not only do we engage students with our exceptional Math and Science experiments, we also encourage them to explore their artistic and creative talents. Recently we organized a “Scientific Rangoli” competition in 16 Government Schools in 2 districts of Andhra Pradesh. We asked students to design rangolis based on the science concepts that…
Janyaa students find solutions to community problems
A team of 3 eighth grade students of Kakani High School in Andhra Pradesh, built a rain water harvesting prototype which can help conserve rain water and reuse it in their school. They were inspired by Janyaa’s Social Innovation challenge to find a solution for a long-standing water problem in their school. D. Vijay from…
Janyaa Success Story: Bringing back Dropouts
Janyaa’s Lab-in-a-box (LIB) program not only engages with students, teachers and head masters (HMs) but also has an influence on parents like Ms. Shaikh Khajabi, who is also Sarpanch of Munagodu, a small rural village in the state of Andhra Pradesh (AP). Ms. Khajabi, having visited Zphs Munagodu, and having seen the improvement in the…
Peer Learning Sessions for Children
“We retain 5% of lecture, 50% of what we see and hear, and 80% of what we experience.” – Educational neuroscience consultant David Sousa (2011) Unless you experience, you cannot benefit nearly as much. That is why we host peer learning sessions for children to help them practice with the experiments they were taught…