Online Pragya April 2021 – A Report from Karnataka
April, 2021
Vision Empower is conducting its 8th Pragya Teacher Training for teachers from 21 schools in Karnataka in English and Kannada from 21st to 23rd April 2021
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Workshop: Creating Accessible Documents Using MathType
April, 2021
On the 11th of April, Vision Empower organized a workshop for 25 student volunteers on creating accessible documents using MathType. Educational Coordinators from VE trained the students and worked with them from 10 am to 1 pm.
What Assistive Technologies Can Do To Make STEM More Inclusive
March, 2021
By Joel P Joseph
The Wire Science
Entrepreneur Christina Wallace wrote in 2015, “for most people – myself included – the default [picture of a scientist] is probably a white man in a lab coat, hunched over a microscope.”
Thanks to many individuals, collectives and movements showing the mirror on racial, gender-based and caste-based discrimination in STEM, this stereotype is slowly changing. However, few still have promoted the inclusion of people with a disability in STEM.
Vidhya Y wins the Special Women Achiever Award 2021 from Xiaomi India
March, 2021
Vidhya Y wins the Special Women Achiever Award 2021 from Xiaomi India for her contributions to empowerment of the community through Vision Empower.
I for Inclusion Training – Samagra Shiksha Tripura, VE and XRCVC
March, 2021
Vision Empower and XRCVC in collaboration with Samagra Shiksha Tripura announces the first I for Inclusion Training for 40 educators from the state
All for Play, Play for All : Ludic Design for Accessibility
February, 2021
All for Play, Play for All is the motto of the the team passionate about Ludic Design for Accessibility. Visit the Ludic Design website to know more.
Vidhya Y featured in TheLifeofScience.com calendar 2021 featuring women, transgender & non-binary folks in science
February, 2021
Vidhya Y is featured in TheLifeofScience.com calendar 2021.. This year’s calendar honors various ways in which women, transgender, and non-binary persons are contributing to science in India. It features around 40 contemporary individuals who are helping the growth of the Indian scientific and academic ecosystem.
Talk to 12th Grade Students at Ramakrishna Mission
February, 2021
Vidhya addressed a group of 100 students of 12th grade from the Ramakrishna Mission, Chennai and shared her journey and encouraged them to choose courses of their choice for higher studies.
Nothing ‘special’ about these needs
January, 2021
To people with disabilities in India, STEM fields remain largely inaccessible. A glimmer of hope has come in the form of the National Education Policy 2020, but unless some serious gaps are addressed, progress is unlikely.
Winter School of the Center for Accessibility in the Global South
January, 2021
Vision Empower is happy to participate in the first Winter School of the Center for Accessibility in the Global South January 7th 2021 to January 9th 2021.
Surviving to Flourish: Adaptations in the times of COVID-19 – Panel Discussion, Wipro Partner Forum 2020
December, 2020
Supriya was part of a panel discussion at the online Wipro Partner Forum 2020 on the theme ‘Surviving to Flourish: Adaptations in the times of COVID-19.’
Pragya Nov 2020
November, 2020
A three day online teacher training workshop Pragya’2020 was organized by Vision Empower on 9th, 10th and 11th of November. The workshop was conducted online on the Zoom platform and a mock session on how to join and operate the meeting on Zoom was conducted two days in advance to...
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Foundation Day of Vision Empower : Celebrating 3 Years
October, 2020
We celebrated the Foundation Day of Vision Empower on 4th of October, 2020. Three years since being incorporated, Vision Empower has been very fortunate to have incredible team members, mentors, partners, student interns and volunteers without whose support we could not have implemented our pilot projects. Read the details and view the videos here.
Roulette enables visually impaired people to draw tactile diagrams on any paper – Newz Hook
October, 2020
Roulette opens a new world for blind and low vision students in terms of education and career opportunities. Read more
VE accepted as Primary member, Daisy Forum of India (DFI)
September, 2020
Vision Empower has been accepted as a Primary member of the Daisy Forum of India (DFI). On Saturday, 19th of September, Supriya was invited to present at the AGM of the DFI on the activities of VE and especially Subodha and its utility. The presentation was well received. VE joins this consortium to work alongside the members on various interventions to make accessible content for persons with visual impairment, especially in India.
Visionary Ideathon
August, 2020
Visionary Ideathon is a 3-day event from 27th - 30th August by Project Sitara Foundation in collaboration with Vision Empower Trust. It is an opportunity for you to contribute towards science education for the visually impaired children of class 10 across India
Case Study : Bridging digital divides: A framework for digital cooperation.
June, 2020
Vision Empower is covered as one of the case studies in Chap 3: Bridging digital divides: A framework for digital cooperation.
ICTD 2020 : Paper presentation
June, 2020
The paper "Conceptual Learning through Accessible Play: Project Torino and Computational Thinking for Blind Children in India", co-authoured by Gesu India, Microsoft Research India, Geetha Ramakrishna, Vision Empower, Joyojeet Pal, Microsoft Research India and Swami Manohar, Microsoft Research India, was presented at ICTD 2020 (Paper Session 4.1)