Harin - Nov 25, 2019

A student at the Nagpur Tip Top Convent, Narale has built an app explaining to children how ISRO builds its space rockets.

Siya Narale may only be a 9-year-old girl, but she has already developed a great interest in coding.

However, what Narale develops is not just a utility app as what she wants to do is to help children learn about technology around the world and how technology is helping us even out in space.

A student at the Nagpur Tip Top Convent, Narale has built an app explaining to children ISRO’s space rockets. Not just giving children a peek at it, the app even simulates how ISRO builds, assemble, and launch a space rocket.

The coding experience that Narale has gained through White Hat JR has helped her build the app. White Hat Jr is an online platform teaching children how to code. With these skills, children are prepared to face the modern world.

With Narale’s app, students can play with different parts of a rocket. They can see each individual piece and try to assemble them just like how they would in a game. Through this, children can understand the working mechanism of space technology more easily. Moreover, the app could also ignite the interest in some children, to venture in the astrophysics field.

Narale said herself, that she had got the inspiration after watching the recent launch of Chandrayaan 2 on TV. Although the mission didn’t succeed in putting a lander on the surface of the Moon safely, it was still impressive. Particularly, she said that the women engineers and scientists taking part in the mission had given her the inspiration.

This is exactly something that we need to nurture children. You can force them to study engineering and science in college. However, unless they have a passion for it, they will never achieve great things.