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We make toys made from commonly used material which every child in the world has acce. Arvind gupta s toys have the worlds children thinking. Indias acclaimed social entrepreneur, award winning science educator and maker of educational toys from trash, arvind gupta, will be the main speaker at the international conference on october 1st, 2016 organized by the iit alumni of canada. India is known for its tradition of creating local toys, yet teaching art and craft to our youth is one of the most neglected aspects of our cultural heritage. See more ideas about toys from trash, science for kids and science toys. Way back in 1970s, arvind gupta passed out of iitkanpur and joined telco in pune. We make fun, inspiring toys and activities from trash. Science educator arvind gupta uses simple toys to teach. Through these amazing innovations, arvind gupta has become a renowned toy inventor in india. In the year 1978, he has participated in the hoshangabad science teaching. It was a political ferment, so to say students out in the streets of paris, revolting against authority. When arvind gupta, an iit kanpur electric engineering alumnus, quit his job at telco, his mother came to his defence stating good, now he will do something noble with his life. Gallery of arvind guptas fun science toys hosted at page by samir dhurde.
Arvind gupta makes toys from everyday objects at a chennai. He works at the childrens science centre in pune, india. Priti salian reports from a classroom in bangalore. Creating toys from waste materials, for over three and a half decades, arvind gupta, visiting scientist at iucaa speaks about his work to popularise. He has also conducted workshops over 2000 schools, and he has won many national and international awards. A graduate from iit kanpur 1975 batch, arvind kumar gupta took a years study leave from telco in 1978 to work with the grassroots village science teaching programme for children in the tribal district of hoshangabad, madhya pradesh called hoshangabad. Arvind gupta is an indian toy inventor and expert in science. Guptas toys recycle bottle caps, plastic balls and matchsticks turning them into models for understanding turbines, the functioning of the eye and hexagonal figures. Teaching science with toys from trash arvind gupta. In this time of giant bigbox store plastic monster toys that kids will likely play with for the entire duration of christmas day and then banish to the island of abandoned toys, its nice to be reminded that some of the cooler playthings are the ones you bodge together yourself. See more ideas about toys from trash, science toys and science for kids. Arvind gupta toys from everyday stuff part 2 by shuchigrover. Arvind gupta is an indian toy inventor and popularizer of science for kids.
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