Projects

Making Bio-Enzyme Cleaner from Fruit Peels By repurposing waste fruit peels, you can make an eco-friendly cleaner at home. Apparatus Plastic soda bottle (choose one that can handle at least 4 atm of pressure.) Fruit peels (citrus works best) Sugar or jaggery Water Procedure…

Water buzzer project at LA: 11th Oct 2024, we suspected that the water tank was getting filled and spills onto the ground and we were not able to identify if the water has reached to the certain level that it can spill on the ground. So we did a project with students while…

Chess Coin Project at Living Academy: July 2024, at Living Academy, our students recently engaged in a new activity called the Chess Coin Project. This project took place in LA while the students were exploring the other indoor games such as, Uno-cards, Ludo, Chess and etc. The…

▎ Computer Lab Setup : The process of setting up the computer lab began with a donation from the Homibhabha Centre TIFR, which provided four desktop computers. All computers were in working condition, So we decided to find a suitable location for it to be organized. Then we…

Wooden bamboo rack In September , we purchased several bamboos for LA. Each bamboo was more than 20ft long. Due to their height they could get into the hall through the staircase. Some of the students went down and lifted them vertically so that one of the students could pick…

The Multipurpose Wooden Boxes The concept of wooden boxes was originally developed for the entrance, so that we will be able to use it to block the entrance as well as for storage.Since we wanted these boxes to be modular and can be used for multiple roles we decided to make…

Interlocking Wooden Rack Introducing our interlocking wooden rack, yet another storage space to keep books or other essentials. We made this rack using an interlocking mechanism without any screws or wood adhesive. Design and Construction The shelf was created from old recycled…

Why Mobile Pantry? Since we only had a hall and no water connection inside the hall. The toilet is the only place where we have running water. We have plans to do projects that need water, and cooking. One way to solve the problem is to do plumbing and run pipes from the toilet…

Fixing the Entrance When we rented a large (1200 square feet) hall in September 2023, the staircase entered directly into the hall. Since we plan to have a computer lab, maker space, bio lab, etc., we need to protect and make the hall lockable from the outside. The pictures…

The first maker space project: As we know that we need to make a lot of wooden furniture and other woodwork, we thought one of the first things we needed was a workbench. We had four legs detached from an old dining table donated by St. Annes High School. The school also…

Multi-purpose ledge benches : We needed some good space to keep our essentials so we started making these ledge benches. Total 6 benches we made, the dimensions were; 4Ft_20240729_165012_0000~2 822×720 106 KB The material that’s used in making, was ply and some required tools.…

We needed tables to work and we created simple designs that requires very simple tools, ply cutting in square size and assembling them. 20240724_173033_0000 1080×1920 147 KB Students actively participated and helped in cutting assembling, painting, edge banding and curve…

Nature’s Gift: Transforming Corn Husks into Beautiful Paper: We created handmade paper from corn husks as an act of recycling, started by collecting and drying the husks. Once they were dry, we soaked them in a container of water for a day to soften them. 12 Jan 24, LA.Day 1,…

Hi everyone, I’m new here, I joined chatshaala after an interactive session with Prof. G.Nagarjuna and when I asked him a question, he encouraged me to write the same question here. Hence I’m here posting a question that has been irritating me since I came to know about home…

Exploring the world of microbiology 21st June, I want to share the project that is taking place at our Living Academy. It’s a first microbiology experiment that happened at LA, done by young students. In this exploration we are about to learn the fascinating world of…

On may 14th Hari became the newest member of our living academy. @Gn decided to keep him we’ll watch and document his growth. created a cozy living environment for him in a terrarium. However it was pre-planned to build a terrarium and luckily Hari was the first member.His…

It was end of the month, May27th when we were doing pantry projects; tea making, were missing ginger and decided to grow it on LA then we can have some fresh grown gingers. later on @Alice and team had a packet of tomato plant seeds she planted that as well, it made good…

What is a terrarium? A terrarium is like an aquarium, but instead of aquatic ecosystem , it’s a land micro-ecosystem. it requires small but good enough container that’s made out of glass. You can use any glass container, The idea is to create a tiny garden or forest that’s its…

At Living Academy, learning extends beyond the confines of traditional classrooms. To foster curiosity and engagement, we introduced aquatic organisms like Moina ( More about it in biocorner thread) as dynamic learning tools on topics of frontier research or as simple as…

When we have informal discussions like in ChatShaala or in general as well, the interconnectedness of all walks of STEM comes out to be very evident, which is very difficult to relate to when in a Typical Academic Setting. In a Biology Class, the discussion will be limited to…

This is the first of a series of stories that will be published soon about Making of the Living Academy Location Hunting from 9th of July to 9th of September 2023 We wanted to locate an area where we can start a community space for making as a context for learning. Checked a…