An insight into one of our sessions!

This video may give the readers an insight into how children can be encouraged to explore and invent:



BTW, Ankita won the internal challenge with a very simple design - however, Ankit's design was the most innovative one in the session.

Einstein's quotes!

We were busy with creating some interesting inventions for our workshops at British Council next week. This year looks much more busier with several independent and school clubs already on the roll.

I wish I could blog more, but it's getting busier by the day. May be if we can find a like minded workshop instructor for our workshops (do apply if you are interested) - we will get back to usual blogging.

Till then enjoy this quote:
In the matter of science, the first lessons should contain nothing but what is experimental and interesting to see. A pretty experiment is in itself often more valuable than twenty formulae extracted from our minds.

- Albert Einstein

Soldering - how to?

Wishing everyone a very happy new year! We had shot a video on soldering for our sessions few weeks back to make the bcWorkshop participant cognizant with how can soldering be done. Here's this year's very first INVENTION loaded video:



Do let us know what you think of this - the kids just love it though :).

Taarey zameen par

Wow! finally a master piece that does justice in highlighting children's rights to the masses. A right to express themselves in their own unique way, a right to breathe the air around them in complete innocence, a right to develop into a unique individual with their own strengths and weaknesses. A fact iterated in the movie that I have been talking to Yogita for sometime now: "Forcing children to bear the burden of one's ambitions is even worst than child labor". The worst part is that we do not even realize this.

Anyways, we hope that we would not spend umpteen number of cycles explaning to parents on - why a child needs to have his/her own tool kit, why he/she should be allowed to play around with the science products and not be a user like others, why he/she should be allowed to fail once in a while when he/she makes these products. Obviously, it's not rocket science when Kahaan (a participant of our CP workshop) uses sharpeners as the base for the coils or if Sushant (another participant of our CP workshop) asks how can a man fly using magnetic levitation - products have that unique ability of giving expression to the million thoughts that a child gets in his/her mind.

Our sincere thanks to taarey zameen par for giving us a chance in this maddening competitive world of percentages.

Magnetic Torch!

I remember playing around with a rechargeable torch that David Jung (a good friend at Real Networks, US) had showed to me - i really liked the idea that the torch was using no batteries at all and thought we should mass produce something like that.

During the magneto science workshop at our Central Delhi center, I wondered how can we expose to the real life examples of technology to our participants and then i discovered this torch at Mr. Arvind Gupta's toys from trash list - the product is amazing, very easy to make and can be easily professionalized. For all the science enthusiasts, check the below video and make your own:

Weekly Videos: How to make a magnetic generator?

We conducted our first session with our Central Delhi batch last Saturday - it was a lot of fun and as usual the session was over stretched. We had a great time and so did few of the kids - I was getting calls till late in night as some of the folks were still working on generating electricity:

Here's a video for them and others on how to generate electricity using magnets.

Note: This idea has been taken from Mr. Arvind Gupta after his due permission - ofcourse we have made our changes as well.

Please let us know if you have any questions on this!

bcWorkshop Demo Video

We just created a promotional video for bcWorkshops - this video is for prospective participants, school administrators and principals to give them an overview about the program.

Do drop us a line at bcworkshop at buildingblocks dot in if you have any suggestions for the video: