Accelerator Program
Learnroll Immerse was chosen to participate in a summer accelerator program after it was selected for a STEM entrepreneurship award.
The program was conducted in Martin Tuschman school of Management, NJIT at Newark Campus.
The program provided the team to attend a 10-week-long program that helped the team to understand how to effectively create value & market for your company using Lean methods. The program was lead and attended by industry experts, NJ startup founders and experts from NJ Assembly, EDA and other government bodies.
The award was presented by Andrew Zwicker an award-winning physicist from Princeton Plasma Lab, Judith Sheft, Dr Kamana Misra and Professor Micheal Ehlrich
The program also allowed us to participate in an Amazon Led Startup Showcase VOICE.
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Learnroll Immerse founder feature in AWIS
AWIS Feature
The Association for Women (AWIS) provides a great platform to showcase diverse professionals in S.T.E.M.
Learnroll Immerse is proud to have its founder being featured in one of the most prestigious platforms
that advocate S.T.E.M and is a major catalyst in bringing more women to discuss the common issues that women face in STEM-based fields.
You can read more about her personal views & opinions here.
Learnroll Immerse Team attends ISTE 2018
ISTE 2018
The team at Learnroll Immerse attended ISTE 2018 Conference in Chicago on June 25, 2018. It was a great opportunity to meet other Edtech companies and get to preview new technology innovation in education & learning. It was a very well attended event and also provided us a chance to do multiple customer interviews on how teachers felt about using AR & VR technologies in a classroom and lab.
Though there was very little representation in VR & AR these are some of the booths that our team visited and previewed some demos.
Unity
Labster
Microsoft Hololens
HTC Vive
We also connected to multiple communities through ISTE. The ISTE conference was attended by our founder, Sushmita Chatterjee who is currently an ISTE member.
Technology – Creating VR/AR experiences
S.T.E.M – A way of thinking
STEM is a big buzzword in the United States and it has multiple implementations based on what schools perceive it as. STEM is more than a way of integrating science, maths, and engineering as part of classroom courses
STEM is not just a coding course or a science experiment but the ability to analyze and think of a concept to implementation to real-world problems of scenarios.This may be done in a non-curriculum or curriculum-based approach.
“STEM is more than a school subject, or the periodic table, or the properties of waves. It is an approach to the world, a critical way to understand and explore and engage with the world, and then have the capacity to change that world and to share this accumulated knowledge. It’s a mindset that says we that can use reason and logic and honest inquiry to reach new conclusions and solve big problems.”
Former President, Obama
“Coding is a vital component of tech education, but it won’t be enough to sustain the next generation of workers.With technology changing rapidly and new job areas emerging and transforming constantly, that’s no longer the case.”
-Sundar Pichai, Google
THE CURRICULUM
The Next Generation Science Standards has created a 3 Dimensional approach to learning science that helps in integrating hands-on problem solving and critically thinking about how science can be used in everyday lives or larger real-life problems. For example, Newton’s laws of motion are used for Rocket science and the ability to understand why we study it can generate interest and engagement in students even for those who do not get excited about learning science. NGSS framework allows immersive digital content being easily incorporated as part of learning exercises and also help in deriving continuous new lessons based on each concepts linking it to new problems or areas.
TECHNOLOGY
Technology is an enabler in almost every kind of area and is the basis of the how things work and why it works this way. Technology is changing at a rapid pace with new tools and technologies included the paradigm to development of technology products. You do not need to write a 1-page program to execute a small feature in the web, but with the advent of new areas like AI, Data Science, we see frameworks and patterns where a few lines of coding or no coding can help in building new technology solutions.While many fear that technologies like AI may replace jobs or control our lives, in reality, its practical uses today can help in improving education by proving better learning paths using knowldege based on patterns and models.
HANDS-ON
The ability to adapt to technology and experiment your hypothesis is very important.Science and Engineering require multiple hands-on experimentations using devices like Arduino or Raspberry Pi Kits, Facial recognition, Interactive Circuits or Lab based experimentation like a Chemistry/Physics or a Biology Dissection Lab. The ability to create your own hypotheses can be important or simply getting to do it yourself makes the student more engaged in the next steps of learning.
AWIS NJ – What is STEM learning all about?
The Gen Z and the “Artificial Intelligence” viewpoint
A blog by Sushmita Chatterjee
Spring break has started and it has been an interesting week at my home with two 9 and 10 years old trying to spend their time watching T.V, painting and doing other activities. I put a proposal of “Why not design an app?”.
GenZ children love apps and whether it is gaming, educational or otherwise it always lights up their face.
Most children do not perceive PCS and websites as relevant products or services other than in a tablet or a phone.
A few years back when I asked my older daughter, she came up with an idea of “doing maths” using a sequence of inputs and outputs. However, the GenZ thinks differently- It’s AI for them. They understand the potential of technologies to not only compute but can think “intelligently” or trained to follow a pattern to get outputs based on them. The thinking is no longer input x with y that is based on some structured or unstructured data. It is to enable a different kind of intelligent output using Artificial Intelligence(AI)-based models using machine learning, deep learning, and other models.
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