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.