Class started as usual and there was a lot I was looking forward to. We watched videos on technical drawings. They were a little dry, which was expected. We spent time understanding how everyone earned money. I earned a total sum of Rs There were new kids in class. Kids from the Drishya foundation arrived. It felt nice that we were part of NIF, an innovation foundation. There was the “ice-breaker” session, where we got to know about each other. A good thing, since we were going to be working together now. Groups were made and we all got to work with one kid from Drishya. Our assignment for the day: to come up with designs for a lunch box. Five people, five designs. I had my ideas set, things to keep in mind, ofcourse, there were going to be drawbacks. However we all let our thoughts flow in. I came up with a lunch box for kids. An interactive puzzle. There were six small boxes that would fix into each other like a jigsaw puzzle, i.e. with a picture on top. I thought it could be made of Tupperware because of its benefits. We brainstormed in class later and everyone came up with pretty nice ideas. We realized that if we clubbed some ideas in, our boxes would be much better. So as a group we clubbed the idea of the jigsaw and a ball shaped box which had a drawer system along with wipers. Finally our product looked like a space ship and we carried on the idea designing it for children. It turned out good. We then had to make posters to tell what the product does without having us to speak. That was tiring.
I was excited to see that the kids from Drishya were creative and had nice ideas. It was inspiring. We put the language barrier behind from this day on. As Sudo says, it doesn’t take language to come up with brilliant ideas.
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