Tata Power’s Lab on a Bike initiative

The Lab on a Bike initiative, recognized with the prestigious Edison Award, is a key part of Tata Power’s Club Enerji program that aims to promote STEM education and foster awareness about energy conservation among school children at an early age. This initiative bridges the gap in resource-limited areas by offering them hands-on experiments. Students get to actively explore, collaborate, and solve problems through engaging experiments. Lab on Bike goes beyond sparking curiosity. It fosters awareness about clean energy and conservation and paves the way for a future powered by sustainable alternatives. By equipping students with the knowledge and skills to solve tomorrow's challenges, Lab on Bike is not just teaching science, it's nurturing a generation of green ambassadors.

Bridge the gap: Enhancing accessibility by offering hands-on science learning to underprivileged students in government schools

Nurture creativity & leadership: Fostering curiosity, creativity, and leadership skills amongst underprivileged children through engaging educational experiences

Ignite young minds: Supplementing the existing government school curriculum with practical, experimental science education and peer-to-peer learning

Empower educators: Training government school teachers in effective hands-on pedagogy, transforming them into facilitators of a brighter future

A cohesive learning environment: Leveraging peer-to-peer teaching and learning techniques to increase educational achievements and promote collaboration among students more efficiently.

Urja Milaan in Renewables organized state and national-level science model competitions. It made the students confident and improved their peer-to-peer learning. The exposure visits to popular institutions like the National Science Centre, Delhi, and the Science Experience Center at Kuppam strengthened their creative minds and innovative thinking.

The intervention is rooted in the robust community institution building (by conducting continuous teacher workshops across several locations). These training reproduction workshops were based on effective pedagogy, emphasizing science reinforcement and nuts-and-bolts of active learning — designed to make the classroom more interactive and engaging.

Lab On Bike has on-boarded 292 schools and the initiative impacted more than +38K students across 10 states in FY24.