News & Updates

During the Bengaluru Tech Summit 2019, Vision Empower (VE) was given an opportunity to showcase Hexis in the IIITB pavilion.

The New Indian Express Oct 9 2019

Prof Amit Praskash, Supriya Dey and Aishwarya O presented the findings of the Ludic Design Approach. Watch the recording of the talk.

Anubhav 2019 was designed based on information gathered over June 2018 – August 2019 from the VE school interventions which culminated in design of the 2 days of workshop on various learning activities.

Vidhya and Supriya were speakers in a panel Discussion on “Inclusive Learning for the Blind, Let’s Embrace the Growing Needs of Stem Education, Impacts on Inclusion and Social Integration” at the SayEverything Convention 2019, jointly organised by SayEverything Group and Samarthanam Trust for the Disabled

Vision Empower is sincerely grateful to Mr. Balaji Varadarajan for contributing to this endeavour of making STEM accessible, by donating geometry boxes to all the schools using funds he has earned for his contribution as a Programming language trainer for visually impaired persons.

In what could be a boost in Science education for the visually impaired, the Indian Institute of Information Technology-Bangalore (IIIT-B) has developed a technology to help generate tactile images of diagrams in Science textbooks faster.

VE and Enability Foundation incubated at IIT Madras signed an MoU on 6th of August 2019 to collaborate on creation of tactile diagrams using Tactograph, a product designed by Enability. The two teams will work on making more tactile diagrams available to VI teachers and students for Science and Math.…

Vision Empower signed an MoU with Matruchhaya to Create Braille books for Mathematics and Science for visually impaired students at schools for the blind in Karnataka and for Skill Enhancement of school teachers from special schools for the blind to teach Science and Mathematics to visually impaired students through classroom…

Vision Empower organized the Pragya 2019 Teacher Trainings in collaboration with Canara Bank Relief and Welfare Association (Matruchhaya) from 26th June 2019 to 28th June 2019. Science and Mathematics teachers from 8 special schools for the visually impaired attended the training on directives from the Department for Welfare of Differently…

I for Inclusion was organized by Vision Empower for its staff, researchers and volunteers on 20th May to 22nd May 2019. The event was intended to create awareness among participants on the realities of visually impaired persons, bust myths about their limitations and provide teachers with the knowledge of the…

Vision Empower took part in the “Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2019” program arranged at IIIT Bangalore on 15th May 2019. Aditya Manpuria of Vision Empower presented the journey of creation of the Subodha accessible Learning Management System to representatives from various organizations working on advocacy and accessibility solutions.

Vision Empower addresses a gathering of teachers, government officials and NGOs at the Office of the Director for Welfare of Differently Abled and Senior Citizens.

The workshop , “Early Intervention and Access to Education ”  held at The Association Of People With Disability (APD) was intended to create a more inclusive education system in India through culture, policies and, best practices. Supriya and Vidhya participated in the workshop along with stakeholders such as students, special…

Vidhya spoke about the challenges of VI persons studying STEM , lessons from her personal journey and in an event organized by the Blind Graduates Forum of India, conducted by XRCVC, Mumbai and supported by Sight Savers. She shared information about the various Vision Empower initiatives, and the rationale behind…

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced that, as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility efforts under its Living Progress program, the company has deployed end-to-end wireless infrastructure from Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company at the I-MACX Studios located at the International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore (IIIT-B) Innovation Centre…

RISE (Research and Innovation, Society & Entrepreneurship) Feb 15 2019 intended to showcase IIITB’s focus & contribution across these dimensions. Vision Empower took part in the Roundtable on “Conversational Interfaces (Voice, Bots) for Good”

Dates: February 7 & 14 The third trimester teacher training program for teachers of Science and Math for Class 5 as part of VE-Pilot project was conducted at a school for children with visual impairments in Bangalore.

The second edition of Inclusive STEM Hackathon 2019 was organized at IIITB in collaboration with our partners IStem, XRCVC and IIITB.

Vision Empower conducted its first Teacher training program for Science and Math teachers for the VE-Pilot project.

Vision Empower and Vividha Trust organized Anubhav – a Science and Math summer camp for children of 5th grade for the visually impaired children in Bangalore.

I-STEM or Inclusive Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics is a self-advocacy group of individuals with visual impairment, who have chosen to pursue careers in STEM related subjects. On January 20 & 21st 2018, the I-Stem hackathon was held at IIIT BangaIore. It was co-organized by E-Health Research Centre at IIITB,…