E-yantra is your mantra!

This year, I registered for e-yantra and this post is the part of my Journey to it.

E-Yantra eYRC guide

E-yantra home page describes e-yantra as:

An initiative by IIT Bombay that aims to create the next generation of embedded systems engineers with a practical outlook to help provide practical solutions to some of the real world problems. Sponsored by MHRD under the National Mission on Education through ICT program.

E-yantra is an initiative taken by IIT-Bombay, sponsored by MHRD to create better learning oppportunites for teachers, students and colleges. There are various programmes that run under the roof of e-yantra to help improve both the society and education standard in India.

Formation or Foundation

IT Bombay envisages the ‘e-Yantra’ platform to harness the intellectual talent of young India to create utility based robotic applications for usage across variety of applications such as: agriculture, manufacturing, defense, home, city maintenance and services industries

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Initiatives

For Students

1. e-Yantra Robotics Competition, eYRC
2. e-Yantra Summer Internship Program, eYSIP

For Colleges

1. e-Yantra Lab Setup Initiative, eLSI
2. e-Yantra Ideas Competition, eYIC
3. e-Yantra Symposium, eYS

For Teachers

1. Two-day Workshop on Introduction to Robotics, link
2. Task Based Training, link
3. Task Based Training Challenge

Others:

1. e-Yantra Farm Setup Initiative, eFSI
2. e-Yantra Resource Development Center, eYRDC

Note: For further information, please follow the links provided.

How to get involved in …

• Go to their website before deadline and register for any of the above mentioned competitions to improve yourself and your college.
• Subscribe to their Facebook page to get updates.

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Reference

• Another blog post to help, here.
• Another blog post to help on e-yantra.
• E-Yantra FAQ page.
• E-Yantra Contact us page.
• E-yantra Home page.
• E-Yantra facebook page.
• E-Yantra Publications

Till then:

• To infinity and beyond!