MIT IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge

Project Aakaar

Team Leader

Indrayud Mandal

Team Name

Project Aakaar

Project Summary

Higher education in STEM disciplines from international universities is mostly inaccessible to Visually Impaired (VI) students in India due to the unavailability of cost-effective tactile educational tools for those students. Our team is working on a circular economy model for these devices that minimizes financial investment while maximizing social impact. Conducting workshops in schools with 3-D printing capabilities would champion the cause of "accessible design" while actualizing distributable end-prints.