Mandi :  The Centre for Continuing Education (CCE) at the Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi, has extended its invitation to Uttar Pradesh Government school students and teachers for PRAYAS 2.0. The summer camp will be organized from 5 th June to 4th July 2023.

The Institute aims to inspire young students to be science and technology leaders and innovators, by engaging them in exciting mentor-based programs to build skills, inspire innovation, and foster well-rounded life capabilities.This time the students will not only be learning about Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) but will also be implementing and relating them to the real world, and coming up with ideas that are capable of changing the world.

Sharing his views on the importance of this summer camp for young students, Dr. Tushar Jain, Head, Centre for Continuing Education, IIT Mandi, said, “Seeing the success of PRAYAS 1.0, this time we have extended this flagship program for the UP Government. A batch of 200 people including students and teachers will become a part of this event, which is fully residential and shall be trained in robotics, programming and computer, electronics and artificial intelligence.

A competition will also be held at the end of the training to explore their innovation and ideas. The IIT Mandi customized robotics will be provided for the training and prototype development.”

Further, Dr Tushar Jain, said, “We sincerely thank the UPSDM for collaborating with us in imparting these skills to UP teachers and students. Through this camp, the students and teachers will also get exposure of IIT Mandi and shall be trained under the mentorship of faculty members and research scholars. We also have a centre of artificial intelligence and robotics where they will be trained with the help of the state-of-the-art laboratory facilities.”
 
The registration for the flagship program has already started and will be closed on 10 th March To participate in this training camp, kindly register on the given link – https://forms.gle/MbSno4YgC2CEonep6. Based on the qualifying test, 100 students will be selected to become a part of this camp and invited to a fully residential training program at IIT Mandi. The result will be declared on 15 th May 2023.

After the summer camp, students will need to develop a project based on the training and lately a competition will be held to select the best projects. The Director of IIT Mandi, Prof. Laxmidhar Behera, with the aim to bring quality IIT education accessible to the youth started this initiative where students learn about the fundamentals of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence to make a fully automated system early in their careers. Last year, the Institute in collaboration with Himachal Pradesh Kaushal Vikas Nigam, Shimla, successfully hosted its first School Camp on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (PRAYAS 1.0) from 1st July 2022 to 22nd July 2022 and hosted 100 participants.