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As of 20th May 2020, there have been close to 5 million cases of the COVID-19 infection worldwide. Mumbai witnessed a sharp increase in the number of confirmed cases (currently at 25,000) from the first week of May. All industries are suffering from the effects of a lockdown, but hospitals and essential services are the […]

It’s been more than two months since the little monster- the novel coronavirus locked us down! Amidst moments of fear and hopes, we have come a long way, staying at home to support the lockdown and make the best of this time at home. And guess what? Curiosity Gym has successfully completed 2 months of

The dawn of 2020 brought to us some really bad news- nCoV-2019. A small virus has brought the world to a standstill in a matter of days and no one knows for how long. While everything around is gloomy and scary, sitting at home feeling ‘stuck’ will only add to our worries and anxiety. Added

This article is contributed by Dr. Rohini Karandikar Do you know how the velcro- which is a part of bags, purses, and footwear was invented? A man named George de Mestral invented it, while he went hunting with his dog to a mountain. He saw that spines of a cocklebur plant got hooked to his

The panelists included (from left): Ms. Pratibha Mishra – Principal, Panbai International School; Dr. Seema Negi – Principal, Sanjeevani World School; Ms. Namita Mehta – President, The Red Pen, with Mr. Girish Nair, Founder, Curiosity Gym as moderator. With the current paradigm shift in technology and jobs, educators are experiencing numerous issues and challenges. Schools

We had a seminar on Oct 13, 2015 at Curiosity Gym, which we co-hosted along with ORF Mumbai. The seminar was well attended and had interesting insights from Dr Shahaf Gal, founder of Nomad Horizons, an Israeli Innovation and Education consultancy firm. Dr Gal elucidated insights into how natural instincts of creativity are suppressed as

We launched Curiosity Gym at a permanent location in Fort, Mumbai last week with an Open House. We had been running summer camp workshops on Drone Making, Design Thinking and 3-D printing and Arduino, in a school and a business centre prior, but this was the launch of our first publicly accessible location. After working

A special guest speaker at the Curiosity Gym Open House was Huzefa Mehta. A brief introduction for those of you who did not attend the talk: Huzefa Mehta is one of the few Indians who have done five ultra-marathons which are severe endurance events, each between between 100-160 miles (Sahara, Arabian desert, Gobi desert, Atacama