FOR SCHOOLS

Technology Labs that makes sense

We design the programmes that run inside your labs and train the teachers who run them.

WHAT WE'VE NOTICED

Most school labs are well-built and underused.

The pattern is familiar. The lab is approved, designed, procured, and installed. The opening is photographed. For a few weeks, the room hums with activity. By month four, attendance has dropped. By month six, the lab is open mostly during inspections.

This isn’t a lab problem. It’s what happens when a lab is treated as infrastructure rather than as a place where specific work happens. We’ve watched it across hundreds of Atal Tinkering Labs and we expect to watch it across Composite Skill Labs unless schools approach the new mandate differently.

Whatever lab you have, the work that happens inside it matters more than the lab itself.

MANDATED FRAMEWORKS

Choose what resonates best with you

Atal Tinkering Lab and Composite Skill Lab are formal frameworks with rules, timelines, and expectations. They behave differently from generic lab themes. Here’s how we work with each.

ATAL TINKERING LAB

ATL programmes for schools with existing or planned tinkering labs.

If your ATL is approved or already operational, we help you make it actually work — whether that means revival of a quiet lab, structured year-long programmes, project documentation, or competition preparation. We don't sell ATL kits, but we work fluently inside the AIM-recommended equipment list.

Audience Classes VI–X typically

Engagement Year-long, embedded

Three models Reset · Steady-state · Build-out

COMPOSITE SKILL LAB

CSL preparation for the August 2027 CBSE mandate.

Every CBSE-affiliated school needs a Composite Skill Lab by August 2027. We help schools approach it as a pedagogical opportunity, not a procurement scramble. Curriculum design, teacher training, project frameworks, portfolio systems, and the annual Kaushal Mela.

Required by August 2027

Covers classes VI-XIII

Annual hours ~110 per class

LAB THEMES

Technology areas we deliver inside any lab format.

Lab themes are the content of our work. They live inside whichever lab format your school has — ATL, CSL, computer lab, science lab, or a dedicated themed space. Schools rarely need all six. Most do well with two or three, integrated into a coherent year.Lab themes are the content of our work. They live inside whichever lab format your school has — ATL, CSL, computer lab, science lab, or a dedicated themed space. Schools rarely need all six. Most do well with two or three, integrated into a coherent year.

HOW WE WORK

The same four steps, regardless of lab type.

Whether you’re reviving an ATL, building a CSL, or running a robotics theme inside a regular classroom, the engagement structure is the same.

01

Audit

We visit the school, observe the lab in current use, meet faculty, and audit existing curriculum. We are looking for what works, what’s stuck, and what a realistic year ahead could contain.

02

Curriculum design

We co-design the year’s programme to fit your timetable, your students, and your goals. The curriculum is calibrated to what your teachers can confidently lead, not to what we wish they could.

03

Teacher training

We embed with your faculty for the first term to make sure the rhythm establishes. The goal is teachers who can run the programme on their own by Year 2 or 3.

04

Steady-state and showcase

The programme runs, students do project work, and we shift from leading to coaching. The year closes with a public showcase — an Innovation Day or, for CSL, the Kaushal Mela.

QUESTIONS PRINCIPALS ASK

Honest answers.

Our ATL has been quiet for two years. Is it salvageable?

Almost always yes. Most “dead” ATLs are not infrastructure failures — they’re confidence failures. Teachers stopped using the lab because they weren’t sure what to do in it. Reviving an ATL usually starts with a six-to-eight-week teacher cohort focused on facilitation, followed by three or four manageable projects students complete in the existing skill-education periods. Within a year, the lab is being used five days a week. We’ve done this often.

Can we run multiple lab themes in the same room?

Yes, and most schools should. A single physical lab can host robotics, drones, 3D printing, and AI work across different terms or different days. The advantage of a multi-theme approach is that it builds connections in students’ minds — they see how a sensor (IoT) connects to an algorithm (AI) connects to a moving object (robotics). The disadvantage is logistical complexity, which is what we help solve.

We're being mandated to set up a CSL. Where does that fit in this page?

CSL is one of the two mandated lab frameworks (above). The full primer on the August 2027 mandate — what CBSE has actually mandated, what good implementation looks like, and what’s likely to go wrong. Read that first if your school’s main concern right now is mandate readiness.

Do we need a separate dedicated lab room, or can this work in our existing computer lab?

For ATL and CSL, the answer is yes — both mandates require dedicated space (about 600 sq ft for CSL, similar for ATL). For lab themes (robotics, drones, AI, 3D printing, etc.), no — many schools run these inside their existing computer lab, science lab, or a multi-purpose maker space. The space matters less than what the school has decided to do with it.

What's the cost?

It depends on which lab framework, which themes, the school’s size, and engagement length. We design proposals after the first conversation. We don’t publish fixed pricing because schools have very different needs and we’d rather meet you than sell you a tier. The 30-minute call is free and carries no commitment.

TALK TO US ABOUT YOUR LAB

Whatever lab your school has, we can probably help.

A 30-minute conversation. We’ll talk through where your lab is now, what you’re trying to build toward, and whether one of our engagement models fits.