The story that built MakerGhat

A Bambu Lab 3D printer part-way through printing a yellow component.
An illustrated timeline of MakerGhat from 2018 to 2026: a dashed green path winds down the page, linking photographs of students building models, running workshops, teaching in classrooms and displaying printed publications, with hand-drawn doodles of a lightbulb, scissors, a magnifying glass, a map of India and a rocket along the way.
Students steadying a tall metal tower they have built together.

Our mission

Our mission is to make hands-on, maker-centered learning accessible across India, empowering young people to think critically, build confidently, and solve real-world problems beyond traditional classrooms.

A row of schoolgirls in uniform presenting a model they have made.

Why making?

Making bridges the gap between knowledge and application through experiential learning. It builds 21st-century skills that empowers our youth to become confident job-seekers and entrepreneurs.

The MakerGhat team and their partners photographed together in a hall.

How did MG start

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  • Young people seated on the floor of a workshop while an instructor talks them through a build.
    • MakerGhat launches its first makerspace in Powai, Mumbai
  • A desktop 3D printer on a workbench beside a row of freshly printed parts.
    • We secure our first institutional grant to expand maker-education
    • We receive our first individual grant to grow the program to 3 schools
  • Students in school uniform kneeling together over a shared task, comparing notes.
    • We respond to COVID with recovery-focused education initiatives
    • We launched virtual programs with VIDYA and Agastya Foundations
    • We opened a second makerspace in Thane
  • A student cutting a strip of card, with a green map of India behind her.
    • We expanded maker-education programs to Tamil Nadu
    • We partnered with the JSW Foundation for our first CSR-led programs (the Museum of Solutions, Mumbai)
  • Students working together at a desk on a hands-on activity.
    • We launched statewide programs in Odisha
  • Students at a table holding up the piece they have just made.
    • We became official curriculum partner for NITI Aayog’s Atal Tinkering Labs (ATLs)
    • We opened makerspaces across districts in Tamil Nadu & Karnataka
    • We launched a new program with the Piramal Foundation in Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan
    • We developed & launched our 3-levels tinkering curriculum & EdApp LMS across all 10,000+ ATLs in India
  • A large cohort photographed together in front of a summit banner.
    • We launched our first IGNITE incubator cohort for young innovators across rural Tamil Nadu
  • A teacher addressing a class of seated students in a school hall.
    • We became anchors for the pan-India STEM initiative under the Shikshagraha movement
    • We launched the MakerGaon Fellowship in rural Maharashtra
    • We launched a district-wide Nashik program with 12 high-end makerspaces
  • An open copy of The Discovery Diary, MakerGhat’s at-home learning publication.

    We published the Discovery Diary, our first at-home intervention for hands-on learning for children