Vision Empower recently organised a comprehensive Pragya Teacher Training from 14th to 16th January 2024 at the esteemed Ramakrishna Mission Blind Boys Academy in Narendrapur, West Bengal. The three-day event aimed to equip 22 special educators from 13 special schools with VE’s STEM & CT teaching methodologies. The program commenced...
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Vision Empower recently organised a series of Braille reading and writing competitions across 34 special schools of Odisha, Jharkhand, Tripura, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, and Karnataka from 4th to 14 January 2024. This was held as part of observing World Braille Day and honouring the remarkable invention of Louis Braille that...
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Vision Empower (VE) conducted a two-day Pragya Teacher Training at the Government College of Education, Pudukottai, Tamilnadu on 4th & 5th January 2024. The teacher training aimed to empower 115 B.Ed and M.Ed students with teaching methodologies and resources used in teaching STEM & CT concepts to children with visual...
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“I feel more equipped to support my child’s learning journey after attending this workshop. It’s amazing how a small pre-Braille kit can make a big difference” Ms Rahna, a parent of a child with visual impairment who attended VE’s pre-Braille workshop. Vision Empower in collaboration with Rahmaniya School for Handicapped hosted...
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“I have been teaching since 18 years to children with visual impairment and we were limited to using the Taylor frame for teaching maths. However, with the activities VE provides through the Pragya Training and Teacher Instruction Kits, we are able to teach children STEM concepts effectively. The children learn...
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Children from Louis Braille Memorial Model School For The Blind, Idukki transcended the limits of their senses and delved into the mysteries of the universe and the realm of numbers at the one-day STEM camp held at school on 9th December 2023, Saturday. The one-day STEM camp was planned as...
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On the radiant Tuesday morning of 5th December, the air buzzed with excitement as 19 children from Kerala School for the Blind, Mankada gathered for a unique adventure- a one-day science camp hosted by Vision Empower on animals. The science camp commenced with a walk through nature with children listening...
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Vision Empower organized its second in-person Pragya teacher training session in Pune, Maharashtra on November 29th and 30th, 2023. The training successfully engaged 23 educators from six different schools. The primary objective of this Pragya was to understand and exchange the implementation of various teaching methodologies and pedagogies in the...
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Vision Empower participated in the EMPOWER Conference 2023, which took place at IIT Madras Research Park in Chennai from the 5th to the 7th of October 2023. The EMPOWER Conference serves as an annual technical convergence point for various stakeholders within the assistive technology industry, such as researchers, user organizations,...
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Vision Empower collaborated with Microsoft India for a remarkable volunteering event on 4th October 2023. This event was conducted as part of celebrating the GIVE month at Microsoft, an initiative for the employees to contribute their time to support various charitable causes. This year, Vision Empower had the distinct honour...
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Head over to page Pg 40 to read Vision Empower’s work on ‘Happily Bridging the Computational Thinking Divide’
Vision Empower in collaboration with Samgra Shiksha, Government of Uttarakhand, conducted a 3-day Pragya Teacher Training Workshop from 25th to 27th September 2023. This was the first ever Pragya conducted for all the 29 government special educators and 13 district coordinators of Uttarakhand. Day 1 started with the inauguration of...
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In celebration of Teacher’s Day, we’ve got something special for all the kids in Karnataka! From September 5th to October 28th, get ready to embark on an incredible journey with “Story Akka” 📻 – a radio program series in Kannada, set to launch on All India Radio, Akashvani. This unique...
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Vision Empower recently conducted a three-day Teacher Training Program in collaboration with the National Institute for the Empowerment of Persons with Visual Disabilities (NIEPVD) in Chennai, India from 22nd to 24th August 2023. The program aimed to empower educators in enhancing their teaching skills, particularly in the fields of Science,...
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The first Pragya Teacher Training program, organized by Vision Empower (VE) in West Bengal, took place from August 10th to 12th, 2023. It brought together 32 teachers from 9 special schools. The training focused on helping teachers understand the difficulties they face while teaching Science and Mathematics. They were shown...
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The accessible ECE (Early Childhood Education) program by Vision Empower to help children to be at par with their sighted peers in the school-going age group has been featured in Samuhik Pahal, June-July 2023. Against the Odds by Vaishali Kotecha Imagine a world where the ideals of John Lennon’s classic ‘Imagine’ become more...
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Vision Empower was invited to conduct a session on assistive technologies as part of the four-day teacher training conducted by the Mathruchhaya- Canara Bank Relief & Welfare Society. The two-hour session conducted on the 7th of July 2023 was led by VE’s co-founder Vidhya Y along with VE team members Rajeswari,...
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Supriya and Vidhya, co-founders of Vision Empower (VE), were invited to represent VE at the Kigali Global Dialogue 2023 and the Kigali Startup Bootcamp at Kigali, Rwanda from June 12 to 14th. The conference was attended by policymakers, academics, civil society, and the private sector from around the world to...
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Vision Empower (VE) was invited to be a part of the policy discussion organised by Xavier's Resource Centre for the Visually Challenged along with Rising Flame and Mariwala Health Initiative on the theme of Education and Disability as a part of the Disability, Equity and Justice Working Group under the C-20 banner.
We are glad to share that academic abstracts from a few of the schools, we have been working with, have been shortlisted for the CTiS (Computational Thinking in Schools) conference. These include Saksham Trust (Noida), National Association for the Blind (Uttarakhand), TELC (Tirupatthur), Govt School (Uliyampalayama) and Welfare School for...
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Vision Empower (VE), in partnership with the National Institute for Education of People with Visual Disabilities (NIEPVD), is delighted to announce the launch of an enriching course designed to strengthen computational thinking and digital literacy skills for student teachers. The course will commence on 3rd June 2023. This 16-week course...
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Vision Empower in collaboration with the SSEPD Department, the government of Odisha conducted a four-day Anubhav: Experiential STEM Learning sessions for teachers and students with a visual impairment from 25th to 28th April 2023. On the first two days i.e. 25th and 26th April, 21 students and 5 teachers from...
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The VE team conducted a Project VICT (Computational Thinking for Visually Impaired) session and an Anubhav session involving a few experiments in Science in Ramakrishna Mission Blind Boys Academy in Narendrapur, Kolkata.
A small team of three (Devidatta, Supdipta and Shiladitya) from Vision Empower reached the School of Mother Elizabeth for the Visually Impaired in Jowai, which is located in the scenic terrain of West Jaintia Hills in Meghalaya.
by Saniya Pitkar, Volunteer, Christ University, Bangalore
Have you ever wondered how we make science and math more accessible and fun for children with visual impairments? Anubhav Sessions is an experiential learning method that aims to do just that! We recently conducted Anubhav Experiential Stem Learning sessions in five schools of Kerala between 28th February and 9th March, with 114 children and 41 teachers from the Calicut HSS For The Handicapped, Rahmaniya School for the Handicapped, Aluva School for the Blind, Helen Keller Centenary Memorial Model School for the Blind, and Kerala School for the Blind.
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), the national space agency of India, headquartered in Bangalore collaborated with Vision Empower to share the knowledge of science and space among students with visual impairment studying in grades 5, 6 and 7.
Once again, our supporter Microsoft India decided to volunteer with Vision Empower. The two organisations teamed up to create DIY tactile diagrams for the students with visual impairment in Bangalore on the 2nd of March and in Hyderabad on the 3rd of March, 2023. 41 & 92 Microsoft employees volunteered in Bangalore and Hyderabad respectively to create tactile diagrams which will be used to help teach science concepts to children with visual impairment studying in special schools.
National Science Day is celebrated in India on February 28th each year to mark the discovery of the Raman effect by Indian physicist Sir C. V. Raman. To celebrate the spirit of science, we decided to conduct a science camp for students with visual impairments we work with.
Vision Empower conducted a two-day Pragya Teacher Training at the Sharp Memorial School for the Blind, Dehradun. The training started with an introduction to VE interventions as well as a briefing about VE’s teaching methodologies. The teachers were given hands-on training on how to use accessible materials like Teacher Instruction Kits, Tactile Diagrams, Geometry Kits, etc. in teaching STEM concepts to the children with visual impairment.
Vision Empower conducted a two-day Pragya teacher training on the 20th and 21st of February 2023 with 33 B.Ed teachers from Ramakrishna Mission Narendrapur in Kolkata. The B.Ed teachers were introduced to the pedagogical goals with which the Hexis Antara solution was devised and then instructed on how to use...
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Vision Empower conducted a one-day Pragya Teacher Training at National Institute for the Empowerment of Persons with Visual Disabilities (NIEPVD), Chennai for B.Ed college students with visual impairment.
Vision Empower in collaboration with the Social Security & Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities Department (SSEPD), Government of Odisha, conducted a three-day Pragya Teacher Training at the IIC centre, Khordha.
Vision Empower in collaboration with The Karnataka Welfare Association for the Blind (KWAB) conducted a braille reading and writing and pick and speak competition for students with visual impairment on 28th January 2023 at the National Association for the Blind (NAB), Bengaluru.
Vision Empower in collaboration with The Karnataka Welfare Association for the Blind (KWAB) is organising a braille reading and writing and pick and speak competition for students with visual impairment on 28th January 2023 at National Association for the Blind, Bengaluru. This is a State Level competition, for students with...
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We are grateful to Microsoft for giving us this opportunity to present our work to Mr Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO and Mr Anant Maheshwari, President of Microsoft India on 4th January 2023 in New Delhi as part of Microsoft’s Tech for Good and Education showcase. The event was conducted to...
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Vision Empower conducted a Pragya Teacher Training for the second time at National Association for the Blind, Haldwani on 13th and 14th December 2022. Attended by 13 teachers, the training equipped them in teaching STEM concepts using VE’s accessible learning resources. The teachers were also engaged in playing various VICT...
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Vision Empower in collaboration with Sankara Eye Foundation conducted a one-day Teacher Training Workshop with 35 BIERT teachers on 15th December 2022.
STEM Curriculum has been introduced to visually impaired students in the government schools of Karnataka. The curriculum has been introduced by Vision Empower in collaboration with Microsoft India, Sankara Eye Hospital. Tap the link to read press release on VE & Sankara Eye Hospital’s collabration covered by Times Now.
As the first child to be born blind in Thirumagondanahalli village located on the outskirts of Bengaluru, Vidhya Y faced myriad challenges whether it be getting access to education or getting a job even after being the gold medalist at her college. Determined as a young child to not give...
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“I never thought games like ludo and snakes and ladder could be made tactile which are played by children with visual impairment”, shared Shriya who was introduced to the interventions of Vision Empower (VE) at the Bangalore Airport. As part of observing the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, VE...
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