About us: 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. 

Under the STEM Ready project, workshops will be organized to enable teachers & students to STEM Tinkering activities equipping them to set up a small STEM corner or a mini-Tinkering lab in their respective schools. 

Objectives of the Project:

• Structured development of STEM Tinkering skills

• Teacher workshops for exploring STEM Tinkering

• Capacity building of Tinkering lab teachers

• Setting up low-cost tinkering labs in schools

We have set up 20 STEM Labs in Pune schools as part of our mission to make hands-on learning accessible to students.