How Blix Is Helping Government Schools Build Future-Ready Students
Many international schools have integrated STEM lab setups into their curriculum to prepare students for jobs that will exist in the future. The Government of India strongly urges schools to adopt experiential learning through the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, but the NEP itself is a policy framework and not a legally enforceable mandate.
Because of this, STEM education does not reach every corner of the country. It is only received by students studying in well-funded institutions, while millions of others continue to rely primarily on traditional classroom learning.
These institutions represent only a small percentage of students. So, what about the majority of the country’s youth who don't have access to these opportunities?
Bridging this gap is one of the biggest challenges facing education today, and it is exactly the problem we set out to solve.
What Is Experiential Learning?
This method of learning moves away from passive memorization and focuses on learning through hands-on experiences. Instead of simply reading about a concept, students interact with it, experiment with it, and understand how it works in the real world.
But this is just a definition of experiential learning. To understand it, we have to be a little more hands-on…of course, within the limitations of a blog.
Let's take an electromagnet as an example; children begin theoretically learning about them approximately between classes 6 and 8, depending on the education board. But only a few completely understand the science behind it just by reading. That is exactly where experiential learning begins, and it is done through robotics lab setups in schools. With robotics toys like Blix electromagnetics, students can build an entire electromagnet from scratch with a step-by-step manual, and in the process of trial and error of making the magnet work, they actually understand the science behind it. Similarly, students can learn about concepts like force, power, voltage, and current, along with coding and artificial intelligence, through Blix robotic kits like Discovering Motions, Discovering Electricity, and the Boffin lineup specifically for coding and AI.
How Is Blix Bridging This Accessibility Gap?
Blix has aligned with all government-recognized boards, with their own curriculum, so concepts like force, voltage, current, and coding support what students are already learning in class.
Over the year, far from replacing teachers, we have trained over 50,000 students and hundreds of teachers across schools and universities and empowered them with structured content, an LMS platform, and continuous support to help them implement STEM education effectively.
We have partnered with state governments, NGOs, and tender-based suppliers to establish STEM labs in government schools across India. The most recent example would be a fully operational STEM lab at a municipal school in Navi Mumbai, where a dedicated teacher runs the program daily as part of the curriculum.
Through our work across schools and government bodies, we are taking small but meaningful steps towards making STEM education available to every student, no matter where they study.
If you want to learn more about Blix’s STEM ecosystem for school, click here: https://blix.in/pages/blix-for-school