This article has been published in partnership with Maker’s Asylum.
Since 2013, a community maker space ‘Maker’s Asylum’ has encouraged thousands across India to collaborate and innovate in the spaces of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math (STEAM) through several programmes and its core value of “learning by making”.
Among these programmes is the SDG School — a remarkable platform that engages with the youth in capacity building, and encourages innovation in sustainable development goals set by the United Nations. In multidisciplinary teams, they work on a host of ideas and solutions that cut across sectors like healthcare, education, energy, waste management, and more. Moreover, this school is open to all.
Over the years, the program has been conducted as a hackathon to engage young people — at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, in Mumbai,…
