Pragya January 2020
January 28 - 29, 2020
A two day Teachers’ training workshop Pragya’2020 was organized by Vision Empower, in collaboration with Mathruchhaya- Canara Bank Relief &...
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NEWS & EVENTS
Empower 2019
Empower 2019, a conference hosted by IIT Delhi in partnership with Microsoft Research, was an event that aimed to bring...
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DH Changemakers | A vision to empower
Jan 01, 2020
In 2017, as her classmates at the IIITB’s MSc in Digital Society showed job offers from tech majors, 24-year-old Vidhya...
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Inclusive-Stem Confluence 2020
January 17 - 18, 2020
The event is in third year running of its earlier Inclusive STEM Hackathon version. The hackathon was where blind and...
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Bengaluru Tech Summit 2019
November 18 - 20, 2019
During the Bengaluru Tech Summit 2019, Vision Empower (VE) was given an opportunity to showcase Hexis in the IIITB pavilion.
Bangalore’s IIIT developing affordable Braille reader for students
The New Indian Express
Oct 9 2019
Anubhav 2019
September 20-21, 2019
Anubhav 2019 was designed based on information gathered over June 2018 – August 2019 from the VE school interventions which culminated in design of the 2 days of workshop on various learning activities.
Inclusive Learning for the Blind, Let’s Embrace the Growing Needs of Stem Education, Impacts on Inclusion and Social Integration
September 14, 2019.
Vidhya and Supriya were speakers in a panel Discussion on “Inclusive Learning for the Blind, Let’s Embrace the Growing Needs of Stem Education, Impacts on Inclusion and Social Integration” at the SayEverything Convention 2019, jointly organised by SayEverything Group and Samarthanam Trust for the Disabled
Making STEM accessible with the aid of Geometry Boxes
September 2, 2019
Vision Empower is sincerely grateful to Mr. Balaji Varadarajan for contributing to this endeavour of making STEM accessible, by donating geometry boxes to all the schools using funds he has earned for his contribution as a Programming language trainer for visually impaired persons.
Science to be easily accessible to visually impaired school children
Times of India. Aug 5, 2019
In what could be a boost in Science education for the visually impaired, the Indian Institute of Information Technology-Bangalore (IIIT-B) has developed a technology to help generate tactile images of diagrams in Science textbooks faster.
MoU with Enability Foundation
August 6, 2019
VE and Enability Foundation incubated at IIT Madras signed an MoU on 6th of August 2019 to collaborate on creation...
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MoU with Matruchhaya
August 5, 2019
Vision Empower signed an MoU with Matruchhaya to Create Braille books for Mathematics and Science for visually impaired students at...
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Pragya 2019 Teacher Trainings
Vision Empower organized the Pragya 2019 Teacher Trainings in collaboration with Canara Bank Relief and Welfare Association (Matruchhaya) from 26th...
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I for Inclusion
I for Inclusion was organized by Vision Empower for its staff, researchers and volunteers on 20th May to 22nd May...
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Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2019
Vision Empower took part in the “Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2019” program arranged at IIIT Bangalore on 15th May 2019....
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Meeting @ The Office of the Director for Welfare of Differently Abled and Senior Citizens
Vision Empower addresses a gathering of teachers, government officials and NGOs at the Office of the Director for Welfare of...
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Workshop : Early Intervention and Access to Education at APD
March 19th, 2019
The workshop , “Early Intervention and Access to Education ” held at The Association Of People With Disability (APD) was...
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Challenges of VI persons Studying STEM
March 23, 2019
Vidhya spoke about the challenges of VI persons studying STEM , lessons from her personal journey and in an event...
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HPE’s Aruba wireless infrastructure deployed at IIITB Innovation Centre
February 28, 2019
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced that, as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility efforts under its Living Progress program,...
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Conversational Interfaces (Voice, Bots) for Good
February 15, 2019
RISE (Research and Innovation, Society & Entrepreneurship) Feb 15 2019 intended to showcase IIITB’s focus & contribution across these dimensions....
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Pragya VE Teacher Training Program – 2019
February 7 & 14, 2019
Dates: February 7 & 14 The third trimester teacher training program for teachers of Science and Math for Class 5...
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Inclusive STEM Hackathon 2019
January 19-21, 2019
The second edition of Inclusive STEM Hackathon 2019 was organized at IIITB in collaboration with our partners IStem, XRCVC and IIITB.
Pragya : VE Teacher Training Program 2018
June 27 - 29th, 2018
Vision Empower conducted its first Teacher training program for Science and Math teachers for the VE-Pilot project.
ANUBHAV 2018
March 25 - 28, 2018
Vision Empower and Vividha Trust organized Anubhav – a Science and Math summer camp for children of 5th grade for the visually impaired children in Bangalore.