Uploaded July 2023 | Updated September 2026, 5 days ago
STEM Ready is a STEM Tinkering Project initiated at Smt. Indrani Balan Science Activity Centre, IISER Pune and is funded by Tata Technologies under its CSR Initiative. The goal of this project is to provide a conducive environment for teachers and students to encourage a tinkering mindset. As part of the project, a STEM Tinkering Experience Centre was set up on the IISER campus, designed to provide a unique learning experience to students and teachers alike. The center has many experiments that can be created with readily available low-cost materials to a wider reach. Participating teachers and students will be able to explore these activities in this dedicated STEM Tinkering space. Under this project, workshops are being conducted with students and teachers to explore STEM tinkering activities related to the school curriculum.
Science Outreach Team: Prof. M. S. Santhanam, Prof. Kundan Sengupta, Dr Aparna Deshpande, Shubhangi Wankhede, Ashok Rupner, Dr Chaitanya Mungi, Ankish Tirpude, Tejal Vyas, Surbhi Pandya, Sarvesh Gorivale, Amol Deshmukh and Ambadas Chakodi.
STEM Ready is a STEM Tinkering Project initiated at Smt. Indrani Balan Science Activity Centre, IISER Pune and is funded by Tata Technologies under its CSR Initiative. The goal of this project is to provide a conducive environment for teachers and students to encourage a tinkering mindset. As part of the project, a STEM Tinkering Experience Centre was set up on the IISER campus, designed to provide a unique learning experience to students and teachers alike. The center has many experiments that can be created with readily available low-cost materials to a wider reach. Participating teachers and students will be able to explore these activities in this dedicated STEM Tinkering space. Under this project, workshops are being conducted with students and teachers to explore STEM tinkering activities related to the school curriculum.
Science Outreach Team: Prof. M. S. Santhanam, Prof. Kundan Sengupta, Dr Aparna Deshpande, Shubhangi Wankhede, Ashok Rupner, Dr Chaitanya Mungi, Ankish Tirpude, Tejal Vyas, Surbhi Pandya, Sarvesh Gorivale, Amol Deshmukh and Ambadas Chakodi.

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About Speaker: Ankish Tirpude, Technical Assistant at Science Activity Centre IISER Pune
[STEM Educator and Teacher Developer]
After completing M.Sc. in Physics from VISVESVARAYA NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY NAGPUR, and teaching for over 3 years in Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Ankish joined IISER Pune in 2019. He coordinates various outreach programmes at SAC and develops low cost classroom teaching tools.
National Science Day Project/Model Making Event Registration Link:
https://forms.gle/kzyLvthaFVUM7TPJ6
0:59 About IISER Pune
3:25 About STEM
5:22 How to make learning more engaging
7:59 Understanding Patterns: STEM Habit
8:49 STEM hands-on: Golden Ratio calipers
14:10 STEM Hands-on A5 paper folding for Golden Ratio
15:42 About Golden Ratio
17:08 Human body [hand] in golden ratio
18:27 Golden ratio in Fibonacci sequence
20:00 Creating Structures as a STEM Habit
20:37 introduction to Platonic solids
21:56 Making of Gloden ratio Icosahedron
25:22 STEM Hands-on: understanding patterns
26:33 Introduction to cardioid shape
26:58 Generating Cardioid shape: Pen-paper activity
30:33 Generating Cardioid with strings
31:22 Cardioids with higher multiples
31:52 Focus on T in STEM
38:04 Basic Electronics activities and references
38:52 Introduction to Handy Generator
39:36 Working of Handy generator
41:01 Introduction to the Data Logger
42:15 plotting of Graph with data logger
44:26 Measuring distance using sound echo
45:00 STEM Approach
47:11 Conclusion
Icosahedron and Golden Rectangles:
https://sites.google.com/acads.iiserpune.ac.in/iiserp-scienceactivitycentre/home/icosahedron-golden-rectangles-shapes-and-angles?authuser=0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icosahedron
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_solid
https://www.geogebra.org/m/vx5d5mn8
https://mathsbot.com/tools/cardioids
https://sites.google.com/acads.iiserpune.ac.in/iiserp-scienceactivitycentre/home/fidget-spinner-handy-generator
https://sites.google.com/acads.iiserpune.ac.in/iiserp-scienceactivitycentre/home/icosahedron-golden-rectangles-shapes-and-angles
https://sites.google.com/acads.iiserpune.ac.in/iiserp-scienceactivitycentre/home/fidget-spinner-generator
https://sites.google.com/acads.iiserpune.ac.in/iiserp-scienceactivitycentre/subject-wise-activities/electronics-activities
Science Outreach Team: Prof. M. S. Santhanam, Prof. Kundan Sengupta, Dr. Aparna Deshpande, Shubhangi Wankhede, Ashok Rupner, Dr. Chaitanya Mungi, Ankish Tirpude, Tejal Vyas, Sarvesh Gorivale, Amol Deshmukh, Siddhi Mahajan, Aadinath Solunke, Saurabh Chaudhary, Vikrant Londhe, Ghanshyam Sake, Dr Amit Morarka, Manjushree Pawar and Shyam Chakodi
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