Atal Innovation Mission launches ATL Sarthi

Atal Innovation Mission launches ATL Sarthi: The Atal Innovation Mission is establishing Atal Tinkering Laboratories (ATLs) in schools across India to foster curiosity, creativity, and imagination in young minds, as well as to instill skills such as design thinking mindset, computational thinking, adaptive learning, physical computing, and so on. As of date, AIM has funded 10,000 schools to establish Atal Tinkering Labs (ATLs).

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About ATL Sarthi

AIM is continuously strengthening this ecosystem by developing tools and frameworks to enhance the performance of ATLs and achieve the desired objectives. One such initiative in this direction is ATL Sarthi. As the name suggests, Sarthi is a charioteer and ATL Sarthi will enable the ATLs to be efficient and effective. The initiative has four pillars ensuring the performance enhancement of ATLs:-

through regular process improvements like a self-reporting dashboard known as ‘MyATL Dashboard’ and Compliance SOPs for schools to ensure financial and non-financial compliance, on-ground enablement of ATLs in collaboration with relevant local authorities through a Cluster-based Approach and providing ownership to schools to analyze their performance through Performance-Enablement (PE) Matrix.

The ATL Cluster aims to provide a self-sustaining model for enablement and monitoring in which ATLs and local governments collaborate on the ground to form clusters of 20-30 ATLs in a specific region. These ATLs can learn from each other through training, collaborations, events, and best practices. As a pilot, AIM executed ATL Sarthi with different partners in regions like Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, and Gujarat.