Amit Modi: WitBlox

12/03/2022 29 min Temporada 1 Episodio 6

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Episode Synopsis

Amit Modi is a tinkerer, educator, and entrepreneur. Amit is an alumnus of IIT Bombay. He became an esteemed LIF Fellow (Leaders in Innovation Fellowship) by the Royal Academy of Engineering, London. Through his love and passion for teaching children to tinker and build STEM (Science-Technology-Engineering-Math) projects, he started his Ed-tech startup TechShiksha Labs in 2014. Over the years of learning children's behavior and motivations, Amit and his team built the product WitBlox. WitBlox is a kit of modular electronics where children can build projects in anything including robotics, automation, IoT, and others. Apart from this, WitBlox has an app through which the children can interact with others. This app has managed to garner well over 300,000 users pan-India since its inception in 2020. It's inspiring to learn from this individual for his persistence and passion in building WitBlox over the years, while building an active and strong community around it. Amit and his team are trying to make it easy for young children to take the exploratory path of learning fueled by their natural instincts of curiosity and attitude for creation.

WitBlox has also been featured on investment shows such as Horse's Stable and Shark Tank India.

Amit also offers project consultancy on STEM Education in areas like Curriculum Design, Content Development, Kits Design, Electronics for Students, Teacher Training, ATL (Atal Tinkering Lab) content & support. Amit also organizes training & workshops on Design & Innovation, Robotics, Drone Building, Arduino Programming, 3D Printing, Embedded & Analog Electronics, IOT (Internet of Things).