Capital Boys High School to be First Tod Jod Fod Centre

Capital Boys High School is set to be anointed as the first Tod Jod Fod (TJF) centre of the State under the initiative promoted by Odisha State Innovation Council to foster innovative mindset in the young.

Taking cue from a similar programme launched by the National Innovation Council (NInC) last year, the State Council decided to implement it in Capital High School providing fun-filled sessions of experimenting and hands-on learning.

The TJF initiative aims at providing an environment where students can deconstruct, reconstruct and re-purpose everyday objects they see or use and link those with the concepts and principles that they learn in the classroom. The exercise of breaking or dismantling objects, machines and apparatus will not only be great fun for the young ones but also enable them to observe and understand the scientific principles behind the common products they use.

By doing so, they will gradually be inclined towards innovating things on their own. They can be drawn towards tweaking the things they dismantle to create new products or even use the items from the broken objects to churn a whole new thing. The sessions will also help them expand horizons to larger concepts and applications enabling them to solve real world problems.

The NInC has been conducting sessions in select schools and colleges in different States. Following the step, the State Innovation Council has decided to pilot it at Capital Boys High School. The theme of the TJF would be “how stuffs work”.

The Planning and Coordination department will be organising an orientation workshop for attuning headmasters and teachers of schools to the niche initiative. While the headmaster of Capital High School will attend the workshop, the School and Mass Education department is keen on pushing other schools like Government Boys High School, Unit-I for the TJF.