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40 Minutes in The Mind Lab

PRO — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:24:45 +0000

40 different things that one could enjoy in the mind lab in 40 minutes……………

Skim through books, rack your nerves on puzzles, try out games, surf the net , get poetic, flaunt your dramatic skills, try out origami, feel like Picasso, relax and plan your day……..etc.etc. etc. this is what Devashishans do in the Mind Lab every week.

So now you know, why they remain so excited about the Mind Lab periods…….

Mind Lab Sessions For Parents

PRO — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:00:23 +0000

A lot of 20 plus ‘time bound’ parents made it to each session. They thoroughly enjoyed the presentation by Hiral Ma’am and also enjoyed a peep in the Games corner under the guidance of Bina Ma’am. All the Hows , Whys and Whats of the Mind Lab seemed to be answered. The smile on their faces and the glow in their eyes gave us an encouraging feeling that, “YES, We’ve done a good job!!” Nothing would have been possible without Jaya Ma’am and her Gundu Team!! (Though somewhere I found volunteers were more than required which we can surely be careful next time!! )
Day 1:

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

Day 5

And Last but not the least, Jaya Madam’s Team:

What, Why and How of Lateral Thinking and Mind Lab

minal desai — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:48:33 +0000

Hello everyone,

I have noticed there is a lot of confusion about how this course works and what exactly is the Mind Lab. Here is a simple explanation.

Mind Lab is the name given to the environment we have created in the cellar. You can see its pictures here

Mind Lab Reading Area

Mind Lab aims at letting the child’s mind be free even if it is for one or two periods a week. The child when he has a Mind Lab class comes to the Mind Lab and explores the facilities there.

The facilities/faculties of mind available at Mind Lab are: Reading Library, Board Games, Drawings/painting, Computers. The child is free to choose amongst all these activities and can spend his time as per his wish.

The Mind Lab also helps catalyze certain true and rare talents of children. For example one of our students is great at mirror writing (i.e. writing the letters as they can be seen in a mirror). We helped her find out how she can enhance that skill. We found out what are the world records in the same, what feats others have achieved in the same, etc.

Mind Lab is for all students from std 1-9 in English Medium and std 5-9 in Gujarati Medium

Lateral Thinking, a formal course by Dr. De Bono aimed at expanding the horizons of a child’s thinking runs in the Mind Lab for stds 5-9 (EM). Each class here has two periods a week for Lateral Thinking over and above the Mind Lab period.

The Lateral Thinking course involves various tools like PMI and C&S, etc. through which our kids learn to think. To know more about this course and why is it so necessary click here.

Our very own MIND LAB

minal desai — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:40:49 +0000

Hello,

For those of you who have not yet visited the mind lab, here’s a sneak peek. YES !! it is the same old cellar of ours which will be used as a mind lab now on..
Enjoy the pics and don’t forget to read the comments of our 9thies in the last picture…
and of course do put in your comments too

Lateral Thinking

minal desai — Fri, 29 May 2009 03:37:20 +0000

Devashish is proud to announce that it is introducing for the first time in India a formal course on Lateral Thinking. Lateral Thinking is a method of thinking which shall help the child to devise innovative and simple solutions to complex problems. This method of thinking was pioneered by Dr. Edward De Bono

The purpose of introducing such a course is to equip the child for a future that is going to be very different than our present. The problems that our children are going to face will not solved by traditional means. They will need out-of-box new age thinking. And keeping just this in mind we have introduced this course which has been successfully running at major schools in UK, New Zealand, Brazil, etc.

We would want to give our sincere regards to Dr. De Bono for doing such great work,

Learn more about Lateral Thinking with this presentation

And if you are wondering where these Lateral Thinking classes would be held then have a look at our Mind Lab. As this is the place where we shall put our minds to work out beautiful concepts.