children and 200 000 teachers to experience aah aha ha ha agastya runs one of the largest hands on science education programs for children and teachers in the world agastya is a cause not just an organization . agastya s mission is to spark curiosity nurture creativity and instill confidence in economically disadvantaged children and government schoolteachers by bringing innovative hands on science education and peer to peer learning to government schools and villages across india . agastya wins the google impact challenge 175 mobile science vans which take science education to the village doorstep 74 science centers for disadvantaged children 92 lab on bikes 313 night village schools 108 lab in boxes 172 acre creativity lab campus in andhra pradesh 2.5 hours from bangalore help millions of disadvantaged vulnerable and at risk children to escape the vicious cycle of ignorance and poverty make a donation to support our work transforming attitudes to learning yes to why looking to observing passiveness to exploring textbook bound to hands on fear to confidence these are the questions that excite and animate us how might we create a culture of enquiry how might we help to create a world of curious souls how might we shift education from learning to answer to learning to question how might we find a creative and common humanity the lesson we derive out of the agastya experience is that innovative and student friendly solutions are needed to enable scientific learning in the youth especially those in rural and remote regions of the nations of the world . former president of india dr. a.p.j. abdul kalam speaking at the 11th international conference on public communication of science and technology from our blog universal language of poetry sep 6 2016 there has never been a moment in my life so far in which i could relate a current ... read more . spreading hands on science across india . aug 9 2016 since its inception agastya has tirelessly promoted its mission to spark curiosity ... read more . maverick teachers global summit 2016 . aug 9 2016 in recent years educators have been challenged globally as never before to develop cur ... read more . recent photos view more galleries video gallery view more videos become a part of agastya support our programs latest news agastya at the 1st national teachers congress sep 28 2016 our founder chairman ramji raghavan spoke at the 1st national teachers congress in pune maharash ... read more . ramji raghavan speaks at the mit linc conference boston sep 28 2016 read more . ramji raghavan at the marico innovation awards jul 6 2016 agastya international foundation won the marico innovation foundation award here is a talk by mr. ... read more . connect with us 2016 by agastya international foundation contact us agastya needs your support to run the largest hands on learning program in the world please consider making a gift to us this holiday season . contribute thanks again for your support . or skip to site