(The Gist of PIB) ATL App Development Module

(The Gist of PIB) ATL App Development Module

ATL App Development Module

• NITI Aayog’s Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) today launched the ‘ATL App Development Module’ for school children all across the country.

Key highlights:

• The ATL App Development modules have been launched in collaboration with Indian homegrown startup Plezmo with an aim to hone the skills of school students and transforming them from App users to App makers in the times to come under AIM’s flagship Atal Tinkering Labs initiative.
• Covid-19 pandemic has brought about a big disruption, which is being tackled through the use of technology to aid for everyday lives.
• The ATL App Development module is an online course is completely Free.
• Through 6 project-based learning modules and online mentoring sessions, young innovators can learn to build mobile Apps in various Indian languages and showcase their talent.
• Additionally, to build capacities and acumen for App Development within school teachers, periodic Teacher Training sessions will be conducted on the AIM App Development course.

Other initiatives:

• The launch of Atma Nirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge has been inspiring to the young students uniformly at school, university and industry level.
• AIM, NITI Aayog is now bringing the skills of App Development to the young tinkerers of Atal Tinkering Labs across the country so that they can integrate their Tinkering Lab innovations with mobile apps enhancing the usability and reach of their innovations.
• This would be one of the largest App learning and development initiatives at a school level in any country.
• Till date, more than 5100 ATLs are established in more than 660 districts across the country by Atal Innovation Mission with more than 2 million students having access to the Tinkering Labs.
• The vision is to foster creativity and innovation nationwide through its various integrated initiatives including incubators, Startups, community innovation Centers and Atal New India challenges for product and service innovations enabling socio economic growth of the country.

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