Qurious Mind in association with Catalyst India conducted ‘Junior Programmer 2020’, a programming competition for children. The competition was held in three categories.

• Category 1: Build a Scratch animation as shown in the supplied video.
• Category 2: Build a Scratch animation (game / story) of your choice.
• Category 3: Build an Android App of your choice using MIT App Inventor

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Prizes      Category 1    Category 2    Category 3
First           Rs. 1200        Rs. 1800         Rs. 2500
Second      Rs. 800          Rs. 1200         Rs. 1500

Final results of Junior Programmer 2020

                          Category 1              Category 2                        Category 3
First Prize           Hitarth Shah             Prateek Patil                       Parth Pitake          
Second Prize       Vivek Shringi            Bhargav Kandalkar              Kevin Lalwani & Viren Jadhav

Every problem is an opportunity in Disguise!
Corona virus is playing havoc in the lives of every human around the globe. To ensure that Corona do not pose elevated risk to lives everyone is forced to stay indoors. Children are not exception to the same. They missed much awaited vacation as well as the time to acquire new skills.
Qurious Mind decided to turn this problem into an opportunity, and introduced online training for children. This comforted the children who were getting bored due to staying at home for long hours and also presented them an opportunity to acquire a much needed skill of tomorrow.
Qurious Mind in association with Catalyst India offered their Fast Track program that included Scratch Programming and Android App Development courses. The ever successful programs were tweaked a little to satisfy the needs of online learning.
Within no time all the batches announced were full and Qurious Mind had to plan for more batches to satisfy increasing demand.
In two weeks’ time, Qurious Mind offered 5 Scratch programming batches and 3 Android App Development batches with 6 students in each batch.
Qurious Mind plans to conduct more batches of both courses and add Scratch Programming Advanced level in May 2020.

Qurious Mind began its second year at Shantiniketan School, Kolhapur. Year 2016-17 was a success story with all its programs getting high appreciation from School Management, Teachers, Parents and most of all from students. Qurious Mind was invited to continue its CBP (Capability Building Program) for standard 9 as well. Qurious Mind also added a new program "Brain Development Center" which focuses on logic development using innovative approach for primary students. This was not possible without expanding the team. Four new teachers joined Qurious Mind to deliver its innovative programs for year 2017-18.

 Qurious Mind conducted Four Training in April 2017. Two of the same were part of the VIBGYOR, Kolhapur Summer Camp while two more were conducted at the Qurious Mind facilities in Kolhapur. 18 students attended the Robotics Construction Level 1 Training at VIBGYOR, Kolhapur. Total 15 Robot designs were made by children and the designs were center of attraction during the culmination ceremony. You can watch the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx6Is01B2pM

Robotics Programming Level 1 Training was conducted at Qurious Mind facilities where children learned the basics of programming and programmed from simple motor functionalities to the functions such as Line Follower, Edge Avoider etc. using sensors. Unique feature of the program was the use of Arduino Libraries which are part of the Qurio Fire Autonomous Robotic Kit. 

Qurious Mind also conducted first of its kind Android App development training for school children. Children made three Apps and learned to make many more using single screen Apps, Multi-screen Gaming App and use of Orientation sensor.