Journey of a Smile Maker : 16 to 1500 Schools

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    When one think of toys he or she might consider buying few expensive toys for their kids and end up spending ample amount. The companies like Lego, Fischer-Price, Barbie-brand and Mattle use such customers and make more than a billion from those. Toy making is a process that multiplies the bliss and keeps on spreading enormous smiles over innocent faces.   

    If happiness and knowledge comes in conjunction, how cool that would be! There are very few people who thought about such socially entrepreneurial concept few years back. 

    Those are people from CalTechs and MITs who came back to India, they could have been at Wallstreet working as a hedge fund manager and taking juicy cheques at home, riding Lamborghinis and Ferraris. If not they could have worked as a chief engineer with some Petroleum giants. But their minds were enamoured with love, love for nation and development of their country. Their teams started to educate rural masses and make them capable enough that they can stand independently in this free world. A brilliant IIT’an found himself doing the same at the age of 24 and he was so moved by that concept that he accepted that as a profession. Mr. Arvind Gupta is a person who converted trash into knowledge. He did not change the definition of toys but he once in for all revised it. He is one of those people who do not care about the results, but just want to strive to do something that makes your heart feel lighter and more contented. 

    He observed lives very closely and a simple evidence of that he gave in his TED-Talk is that, in a village even if a contractor doesn’t attend college he would know triangular structures are rigid enough and house tops can be simply made using the same. He was graduated from IIT Kanpur in the year 1970. He started working into a core mechanical company, but left the job. He says it is better to know what you don’t want to do at a perfect time. Such moments can give a huge turning to your life. ‘Small positive actions are more important than empty rhetoric activities’ is a quote that he followed for his entire life. He enamoured several minds using such simple concepts. ‘Hoshangabad Science Teching Programme’ is the key thing Mr. Gupta started at rural places of Madhya Pradesh, India. For normal people he actually translated over 150 books. He started the journey with 16 small rural schools and now his programs have reached to all the corners of India which covered more than 1500 schools. For his life-work he received remarkable accolades involving AMTI in 2016, INSA in 2008 and IIT-K distinguished alumni in 2001.

    Amazing astronomy is something that teaches science about the sky and makes people curious about such things. Fun with pressures and mechanics is majorly the things in which tiny models are prepared and children learn those concepts simply. Strong structures give lessons about amazing structural science facts and ideas. Such innovation and creativity helps students understand the sciences and reduce the mugging up part.

    People like Mr. Gupta inspired innumerable souls. The major lesson he gave to people is that one should push their own self to spend time for their life and happiness. One can never attain satisfaction after taking a ride with a net at hand, just to catch the money flying over. He says one should walk, run, travel to various places to get that intangible factors present in lives. That can only help you to get a carrier from which you would never wish to get retirement. Making your mundane lives colourful, painting them over and over so that the canvas would always remain alive is the lesson I took from Mr. Arvind Gupta. ‘The best thing a kid can do with a toy is to break it and this is how they learn’ is the base they utilized and managed to build the structure of education over the same. Hats off to such people and their worksss….

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