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At Wizkids Gurukul, we believe learning should light up every part of a child—sparking scientific curiosity, artistic joy, entrepreneurial thinking, and emotional wisdom. That’s why we embrace STEAMS:
Science, Technology, Entrepreneurship, Arts, Math, and Self-awareness.

This expanded vision of STEAM aligns deeply with NEP 2020, which urges schools to remove the boundaries between “arts and sciences” and make learning hands-on, joyful, and real-world connected. NEP also emphasizes nurturing values and “the whole child,” including emotional (EQ) and spiritual intelligence (SQ).

As we say at Wizkids Gurukul,

“We go beyond academics to nurture a child’s IQ, EQ, and SQ—so children grow into confident, compassionate, and creative learners.”

STEAMS in Action: Where Projects Meet Purpose

STEAMS comes alive through project-based learning—real tasks that connect multiple skills and subjects.

👩‍🌾 A community garden teaches science (plants), math (measuring plots), arts (designing posters), and entrepreneurship (selling produce). Kids also build responsibility and a sense of contribution.
📰 A student newspaper integrates writing, graphic design, tech tools, event photography, budgeting, and teamwork—all in one creative effort.
💡 A mini-startup project has children solve real problems by prototyping solutions, drafting business plans, and pitching ideas—learning economics, public speaking, and resilience.

These aren’t just academic exercises. They’re real experiences that build critical thinking, collaboration, creativity—and confidence.

Tinkering, Thinking, Transforming

Across India, labs like Atal Tinkering Labs (ATLs) bring STEAMS into reality. Over 10,000 ATLs across schools let students explore robotics, sensors, 3D printing, and coding—tools to solve local problems with creativity.

In the 2018 AIM-ATL Marathon alone, 5,000+ students took on social challenges using tech and innovation. The best teams even earned internships in entrepreneurship—turning ideas into impact.

This is what STEAMS means: learning by building, failing, reflecting, and trying again.

A National Shift: NEP, CBSE, and Beyond

India’s education policy is evolving to support this shift. NEP 2020 calls for:

• Multidisciplinary, arts-integrated, and competency-based learning

• Coding and design thinking from middle school

• Emphasis on creativity, ethics, problem-solving, and empathy

• Strong focus on Social Emotional Learning (SEL)

The CBSE is already training teachers in these methods—focusing on experiential, AI-enabled, and skill-based education.

As the Atal Innovation Mission expands, over 6 million students now access STEAM tools and labs. Education in India is clearly moving toward real-world, values-based, project-driven learning—just like we practice at Wizkids Gurukul.

Learning That Builds Character and Community

At Wizkids Gurukul, STEAMS isn’t just about knowledge—it’s about becoming a better person.

• Creativity flourishes when kids explore freely, without fear of mistakes.

• Collaboration grows through team projects and peer learning.

• Self-awareness deepens through mindful reflection: “What did I learn about myself?” or “How did helping others feel?”

Even our cultural activities are interdisciplinary—like using rangoli patterns to teach geometry or physics through an eco-themed stage play. This keeps learning joyful, values-rooted, and uniquely Indian.

How Parents Can Support STEAMS at Home

You are your child’s first teacher. Here’s how you can support STEAMS learning at home:

🔍 Foster Curiosity
Answer their “why” questions. Let them explore through safe DIY experiments—cooking, crafting, gardening. Praise effort and exploration.

🛠 Encourage Project Time
Support mini-projects: building, writing, designing. Ask them to explain: “How did you test that?” This builds purpose and ownership.

🌏 Connect Learning to Life
Relate their projects to real issues. “How could this code help others?” “What does this artwork say about the environment?”

💡 Model Entrepreneurship
Share everyday enterprise stories—like fundraising, running a home-based sale, or organizing a drive. Let kids budget, plan, and lead.

🧘 Build Self-Awareness
Talk about challenges, feelings, goals. Share stories that teach honesty, grit, kindness. These are as vital as academics—and fully part of NEP’s vision.

When Science Meets Art and Math Meets Heart

STEAMS helps kids see the world not in silos—but as a connected, creative place full of problems to solve and people to help.

At Wizkids Gurukul, we see every day how this approach helps children flourish—academically, emotionally, and socially.

With your support, your child won’t just learn—they’ll lead, create, care, and grow.

Let’s raise not just great students—but great humans.

🏠 STEAMS At Home: Activity Guide for Parents

Build real-world skills with hands-on fun!
(STEAMS = Science, Technology, Entrepreneurship, Arts, Math, Self-awareness)

🔬 SCIENCE

• Grow a small herb garden. Track sunlight, water, and growth.

• Make a lava lamp using oil, water, and baking soda.

• Explore magnetism with fridge magnets and paper clips.

🗨 Ask: “What did you notice? Why do you think that happened?”

💻 TECHNOLOGY

• Use a free coding app (like Scratch or Tynker) to create a simple game.

• Explore a favorite gadget—how does it work? Can they sketch its parts?

• Take a tech break to build something without screens.

🗨 Ask: “How could technology solve a problem in our neighborhood?”

💡 ENTREPRENEURSHIP

• Help your child plan a small weekend project:
  Sell handmade bookmarks or snacks to raise funds for a cause.

• Watch “Shark Tank India” together and discuss: What made a pitch strong?

• Let them budget their pocket money for a small goal.

🗨 Ask: “Who does your idea help? What problem are you solving?”

🎨 ARTS

• Use junk materials to create something new (e.g., bottle cap animals).

• Create art from math (e.g., rangoli, tessellations, fractals).

• Tell stories through comics or puppet shows.

🗨 Ask: “What feeling or message does this art express?”

➕ MATH

• Play math games: estimate grocery prices, measure ingredients, or calculate discounts.

• Design a mini-board game with math-based rules.

• Create patterns with shapes, beads, or Lego.

🗨 Ask: “Where do you see math in everyday life?”

🧘 SELF-AWARENESS

• Try daily reflection: “What did I learn today?” or “How did I help someone?”

• Start a simple gratitude journal or emotion chart.

• Practice mindfulness: deep breathing, guided meditation, or nature walks.

🗨 Ask: “What are you proud of today? What’s something you’d like to improve?”

❤️ Tip: Focus on Effort, Not Perfection.

Celebrate your child’s curiosity, kindness, creativity, and courage. That’s what STEAMS is all about!

When 12-year-old Meera and her friends launched a recycling club, they didn’t just make notebooks to sell—they made a promise: half the money would go to clean-up drives in their town. The kids learned more than pricing and profit. They learned purpose.

Today, Indian schools are teaching not just how to build a business, but why—by blending entrepreneurship with ethics.

Business with a Soul

India has a long history of ethical enterprise—from Gandhi’s khadi movement to local self-help groups. And now, our education system is catching up.

The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 calls for children to become “ethical, responsible citizens” rooted in values like truthfulness, compassion, and social good. That means:

• Startup ideas that help communities

• Social entrepreneurship projects in classrooms

• Lessons where profit meets purpose

At some schools, students run ventures that donate to charity or use eco-friendly methods. The message? A good business isn’t just profitable. It’s principled.

From Kindergarten to Kindness

Schools like DCM Young Entrepreneurs School in Punjab start early. Even 5-year-olds are encouraged to invent and solve real problems. And while creativity is key, so is conscience.

Students explore questions like:

• Who benefits from my idea?

• Am I being fair and honest?

• Can I make a difference while making money?

Even traditional lessons get ethical twists:
📜 In history, Gandhi’s values guide real-life dilemmas.
🧮 In math, kids calculate profits and learn fair pricing.

Voices of Tomorrow

Students themselves are embracing the blend. As Jival, an 11th grader, put it:

“For India to reclaim its glory… we need ethical leaders.”
“Education without values is a complete waste.”
(Apeejay Newsroom)

Today, schools are nurturing future changemakers through:

• Community service projects

• Eco-friendly science fairs

• Campaigns on sustainability, fairness, inclusion

This is how we grow leaders who care, not just compete.

How Parents Can Support

You don’t need a business degree to raise an ethical entrepreneur. Just start small:

✅ Ask: “Who will your project help?”
✅ Encourage ventures that give back
✅ Share stories of honest leaders and social change
✅ Value purpose over prizes

For example, if your child builds a solar oven for science class, guide them to teach someone how to use it. That one act turns innovation into impact.

Reflection: Values at Home, Ventures with Heart

What values does your family talk about at dinner? Honesty, generosity, responsibility?

Now imagine your child weaving those values into a product, a plan, a pitch.

👉 This is how we grow not just startups—but citizens with conscience.

In the words of NEP reformers, an entrepreneur must lead with both the head and the heart. Let’s raise kids who do just that.

Arjun taps open a new app on his school tablet—not for play, but for math. He’s designing a color-coded pattern for a multiplication table, then prints it as a 3D keychain. Nearby, his friends are animating a stop-motion film about India’s freedom movement.

This is today’s classroom—where imagination and innovation meet through technology.

From Screen Time to Dream Time

Technology, when used creatively, becomes a canvas for learning—not a distraction.

• Drawing apps turn math into patterns

• Coding helps children build games and solve problems

• VR tours bring history to life

• Tablets and styluses make every child an artist or inventor

India’s CBSE curriculum now includes skill-based learning—coding, tinkering, robotics, animation—all encouraging kids to build, not just memorize (Creative Learning Initiatives in CBSE-Affiliated Schools in India).

As one innovator said:

“When kids solder and code robots, they’re learning to turn imagination into reality.”
(EducationTimes.com)

Making Learning Playful and Personal

Tech tools allow learning to adapt to your child:

• A visual learner might animate geometry concepts.

• A storyteller might script a podcast for a history project.

• A shy student might confidently “paint” their answer on a smartboard.

Apps turn tests into games. Smartboards become group canvases. Digital labs simulate real experiments. Creativity becomes the engine of learning.

Art + Tech = A Better Tomorrow

But this isn’t just about screens. It's about values too.

Kids aren't just learning to code—they’re solving real-world problems:

• An app that tracks plastic waste

• A game that teaches water conservation

• A digital storybook on local legends

Tech becomes a tool for empathy and change.
As educator Malcolm Fernandes says:

“Art education teaches students how to think outside the box… it’s the training ground for tomorrow’s inventors.”
(Medium)

At Home: Nurturing Your Digital-Artist

Here’s how to support your child’s tech-powered creativity:

• Encourage them to code, draw, animate, or design—even for fun

• Join in: build a simple robot together or try a free music-mixing app

• Cheer on tech clubs and school exhibitions

• Celebrate their digital creations like you would a great report card

Remember: A blog post or a video game can build as much creativity, planning, and writing skill as a textbook worksheet.

Reflection: When Did Your Child Last Create Something?

👉 Was it a drawing? A voice recording? A meme? A robot?

What tools did they use? What joy did they find?

In a world where AI can automate tasks but not creativity, let’s help our children dream, design, and do. Because robots don’t dream. But humans do. And we want our kids to dream big.

At Wizkids Gurukul, we celebrate digital learning that feeds the imagination—and we invite every parent to be part of that journey

On a sunny afternoon in Bangalore, 12-year-old Riya adjusted the code on a robot she and her classmates built to sort recyclables. In the next room, her cousin Aarav painted a mural about how math patterns show up in nature, while others brainstormed ideas for a student-led eco-business.

This isn’t just school—it’s STEAMS learning in action: blending Science, Technology, Entrepreneurship, Arts, Math, and Self-development. Across India, this integrated, hands-on approach is transforming education from exam prep to life prep.

What Makes STEAMS Different?

STEAM—adding Arts to STEM—is already popular worldwide. Wizkids Gurukul is going a step further by including Entrepreneurship and Self-awareness. That’s what the extra “E” and “S” stand for in STEAMS.

Instead of learning subjects in isolation, students connect them. A tech class might include designing an app for a social cause. A geometry lesson could turn into an art project. At Wizkids Gurukul, we see this every day in the challenges our students tackle—mixing storytelling with innovation, science with compassion.

Learning by Doing, Feeling, and Thinking

Indian schools are embracing this with:

• Art-integrated learning: Painting, dance, or drama to explore academic topics

• Project-based assignments: Designing, building, and presenting real-world solutions

• Skill-based courses: Coding, robotics, design thinking, and more

• Reflection and wellness: Journaling, mindfulness, and group exercises

As one student in an Atal Tinkering Lab put it: “From soldering to coding, we’ve learned by doing.” And while tech skills are crucial, so is empathy. When students share stories, express feelings through art, or build projects that solve real problems, they learn to care and connect.

Why STEAMS Matters Now

The NEP 2020 encourages this shift by promoting “critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and entrepreneurship.” It’s about preparing children not just to work in the world, but to change it.

Programs like Atal Tinkering Labs show what’s possible:

• A student team in Kerala designed a smart irrigation system to help mountain farmers

• Another group created “smart goggles” to support a visually impaired classmate

These aren’t just projects—they’re acts of empathy and innovation, driven by young minds who see problems and ask, how can we help?

How Can Parents Support STEAMS?

STEAMS isn’t just for the classroom. As a parent, you can help by:

• Asking your child what they’re building, exploring, or imagining
  
  

• Encouraging hobbies like coding, painting, gardening, or creative writing
  
  

• Supporting curiosity with kits, books, or community activities

• Helping them reflect—not just on what they learned, but how they felt and why it mattered