Green Club of Thoughts
Kathmandu University
Kathmandu University
Date: Oct 31, 2021
Dear All,
Green Club of Thoughts (GCT) is the first inter/trans-disciplinary club established at Kathmandu University founded in 2007. The club aims to raise awareness on major educational, technical, social, and economic national issues as well as international issues engaging students of all seven schools in various activities. Since then, to effectuate the objectives of the club it has been working in a wide range of activities from interaction program on national issues to outreach activities in different corners of the country, and has conducted different inter/national workshops and schools collaborating with different community organizations.
Updated on: Feb. 17, 2021
On February 18th-22nd, 2021, the Green Club of
Thoughts hosted a five-day workshop entitled “Workshop on Robotics” at SkyriderHigher Secondary School, Chitwan supported by Alpha Beta Institute. The
workshop was a part of the annual program of the Club on the theme of “Class to
Community”. The goal of the workshop was to deliver basic knowledge on
Electronic Components and robotics, and the program hosted around 50 students
from classes 6-12 with curiosity and creative ideas.
The educational
workshop was a success not only because of the participants but also due to the
impact it has left. The five-day-long workshop proved fruitful to the
enthusiasts of Robotics and gave them a boost towards understanding and
implementing electronic components to ease their daily activities.
Students were
given basic theoretical and practical training about electrical components and
circuits. The first day of the workshop ended with students being able to build
an Automatic Lighting System with basic electronic components. After the
accomplishment, students were also made familiar with various types of sensors
and microcontrollers.
With dedicated
and capable club members, the school quickly learned about programming
microcontrollers and could integrate Audrino into various programs. With the
team effort, students built a Bluetooth control car on the fourth day of the
workshop. With a detailed idea about how
signals were transmitted through Bluetooth modules, students were clear about
how smartphones could control the car.
Analyzing the
enthusiasm and the marvelous progress made by the students, 5 sub-groups were
formed and an idea pitching session was also conducted which provided them with
professional insights on how to formulate the ideas and propose them to the
board.
On the final
day of the workshop, students had acquired sound knowledge about electronic components
and circuits. Under the team’s supervision, students assembled their final
projects of the workshop. The projects involved Gesture Control Car, Obstacles
Avoiding Car, Lane Following Robot, Smart Dustbin with Garbage Level Detection,
and Smart Irrigation System. A short Q&A session was also conducted as a
survey to find how productive the workshop had been. The results were very
promising which concluded the five-day-long workshop with the mini project
exhibition at last.
On day one the students got knowledge on electronics components and later they designed the circuits and assembled the circuits on a breadboard. The first project was the Automatic Lighting System. After getting knowledge on electronics components, they were introduced by various types of sensors.
