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Students of Sunbeam School Ballia working along the chemistry bench, test tubes held over the burners.

STEM, Robotics & Enrichment

Named rooms and entered programmes — and a drone that came second in Malaysia.

Where science happens

Rooms built forone subject each.

Sunbeam’s STEM provision is a set of named rooms rather than a claim about a culture. Physics, Chemistry and Biology each have a laboratory of their own, carrying board practicals from Class IX to Class XII — a chemistry bench with gas taps and reagent shelves is a different object from a science room with a sink in it.

The mathematics laboratory is the one most schools do without. Its purpose is to make mathematics a practical subject — something handled rather than only argued on paper — which is a harder room to justify and a more revealing one to have.

  • Named laboratories
  • Board practicals IX–XII
  • Purpose-built spaces
  • Hands-on, everyday
Senior students of Sunbeam School Ballia at the physics laboratory benches, apparatus in front of them and subject portraits along the wall
The composite laboratory at Sunbeam School Ballia between classes, its long benches and apparatus set out along the room
A student of Sunbeam School Ballia at the microscope, conical flasks of plant cuttings and an anatomy model on the bench beside her

The Robotics Lab

Four thingsin one room.

The school’s description of its Robotics Lab is a single line of four items, and it is more specific than most schools manage: a drone, a 3-D printer, a telescope and embedded systems. No “state-of-the-art”, no “cutting-edge” — four objects, each of which either exists in a room or does not.

  1. 01

    Drone

    The machine behind the school’s only international placing.

  2. 02

    3-D Printer

    A design that leaves the screen as an object.

  3. 03

    Telescope

    The one instrument in the room pointed away from the building.

  4. 04

    Embedded Systems

    Where code stops being a screen and starts being a thing that moves.

The school has published no photograph of this laboratory, so the four items are set as type rather than illustrated with somebody else’s room.

STEM in practice

Not just equipment.Students using it.

Laboratories are only useful when they are in use. Six frames from the school’s own rooms — each caption says what is actually in the picture.

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Two senior students of Sunbeam School Ballia at the biology laboratory bench, one reading a measuring cylinder, anatomy charts behind them Senior students of Sunbeam School Ballia at work in the mathematics laboratory, subject charts covering the walls behind them Students of Sunbeam School Ballia at the machines along both benches of the senior computer laboratory, a teacher standing at the back A computer room at Sunbeam School Ballia during a lesson, wall charts of keyboard keys and PC shortcuts behind the machines The composite laboratory at Sunbeam School Ballia between classes: a long bench with an anatomy model, sink and taps, reagent shelves along the back wall The Nalanda Library at Sunbeam School Ballia between classes: reading tables and chairs, with shelves signed “Ballia Literature”, “Mythology” and “Magazines”

The biology laboratory — a measuring cylinder read at the bench.

The enrichment ecosystem

Many rooms.One purpose.

Different spaces, different tools. One connected idea of learning through doing.

Out of the Robotics Lab: second place at the RoboWunder International Robotics Championship, Kuala Lumpur. The rest is on Student Success.

  1. The biology laboratory at Sunbeam School Ballia between classes — red stools along the bench, microscopes on the shelves and anatomy charts on the wall

    Science

    Physics, Chemistry and Biology, with board practicals from Class IX.

  2. A young student of Sunbeam School Ballia holding up a hand-made rocket cut-out at the Star Gazing session, the night-sky board behind him

    Making

    The Robotics Lab — drone, 3-D printer, telescope and embedded systems.

  3. Students of Sunbeam School Ballia at work down the length of the senior computer laboratory, a teacher walking the row behind them

    Coding

    Two computer laboratories, junior and senior, 40+ machines each.

  4. Students of Sunbeam School Ballia seated inside the Taramandal planetarium show

    Discovery

    Vidyarthi Vigyan Manthan, the Science Congress, Inspire Award MANAK.

Learning beyond the book

Explore. Build.Discover.

The school names the rooms, their contents and the programmes it enters. It does not publish a coding curriculum, which classes take robotics, or club hours — and it has published no photograph of the Robotics Lab itself.

  • Explore
  • Build
  • Discover