मैं भी बनू कलाम

The simple meaning of the scientific thinking of the great scientist Shri Abdul Kalam was that he wanted an infinite vision to develop the infinite possibilities hidden within every child of the country. 

Vigyan Bharati is bringing up the innovation inculcation program "Main Bhi Banu Kalam", this program will be organizedat various levels to provide the platform for developing and promoting and connecting innovation at grass root level problem and transforming knowledge into action. This activity will also promote the experimentation, learning through hands-on experiences, learning from failures, and inventions in school level children. 

This program will create new social and cultural worlds – worlds that help students learn by integrating thinking, social interaction, and technology, all in service of doing things they care about. Computers and other technologies have already changed the way students learn. Integrating technology and social issues with into education has the potential to create new and more powerful ways to learn in schools, communities and innovative workplaces. This program will also bring together young students, kids, technology institutions, innovative organizations in a collaborative way of knowing, ways of doing, ways of being, and ways of caring about surrounding environment through knowledge and creative ideas.

1. MBBK aims for nourishing the Roots - The STI policy of Government of India has made emphasis on ensuring sustainable pipeline of talented youth for science. Empowering stakeholders for local actions is a key element. The MBBK framework will further enable school science education for early attraction of talent to science. MBBK will devise to inculcate research mentality at school level and develop young leaders in science and engineering in future. 
2. MBBK programme is aspiring to make innovation as epicenter of education in order to achieve the cultural & attitudinal shift and to ensure that ‘Innovation and Startup’ culture becomes the primary fulcrum of our education system. 
3. MBBK will help students become innovative and creative and to help India become leader in sustainable technologies by scouting, spawning and sustaining innovations done by students who left formal education system after 12th class 
4. MBBK would build linkage between formal scientific education systems and informal knowledge systems and create a knowledge network to link various stakeholders through application of Information Technology and other means. 
5. MBBK would develop innovation and creativity, bring together transdisciplinary/ multidisciplinary knowledge and address an authentic problem for students in a surrounding environment. 
6. MBBK would integrate all innovation programmes being implemented across country at one platform for students to identify original ideas, innovations, knowledge structuring for entrepreneurship development and local social eco environment system.
7. MBBK will also perform to grow, accelerate and support to all parallel programs running for the science, technology, engineering and mathematics based innovation programs for young students

Students of Class 6 to class 12, any stream , any board, any state , Hindi / English language can participate in this programme.

  Development Process of a Main Bhi Banu Kalam

1. Identify young innovators

2. Orientation and online workshops to understand innovation process and program

3. Collaborative team

4. Innovation design and support system/mentoring

5. Visits to R & D institutions

6. Innovative project development process – STEPs

• a. Study real world problem
• b. Creative ways of developing the new insight
• c. Ideation/Design process
• d. Prototype development
• e. Deployment and implementation
• f. Evaluation and assessment

7. Project support and future innovations, show casing & participation in events