Virtual Labs Bootcamp 2.0 organized by Team Virtual Labs IIT Roorkee

   fig. 1 Bootcamp 2.0

The main objective of the bootcamp is to develop new experiments related to identified gap areas as per the AICTE curriculum.

It also help students to increase their knowledge and to up-skill, to expose to resources, to generate ideas, and to network.

Currently, labs have been developed by participating institutes in accordance with the various syllabi across different universities. However, there are some gap areas, many labs do not fully cover with the curriculum of a particular technical course prescribed by the university.

In order to fill the gap areas, each participating institute is aiming to engage the local nodal center's and carry out the syllabus mapping exercise based on identified gap areas in the respect domains. 

These gaps are proposed to be filled by developing additional experiments. In this process is meant to involve Regional nodal center's (RNCs), Nodal center's (NCs) and participating institutes are being involved together to achieve the above task.

The Bootcamp 2.0 was organized from Virtual labs IIT Roorkee dated 15th Feb 2022 - 30th Mar 2022. The whole bootcamp was divided into 6 phases. The participating institute was COER (College of Engineering Roorkee) and Nodal coordinator Anuradha of Electrical discipline was also present from her institute.

From the Virtual labs IIT Roorkee team their were 4 members involved in the bootcamp  and from the COER team their were 5 Participants involved and in the end Prof. R.S. Anand addresses the participants and send them with well wishes.

   Virtual labs IIT Roorkee team 

•    Rajeev Kumar, Nipun Jain, Piyush Rawat ,Jasbir Singh

      COER Team

•    Vansh Rohan, Anmol, Vishu and Tannu

The following are the details of the bootcamp in a weekly manner:-

                                                        Timeline

In the first week of the bootcamp, the task was assigned to the students to evaluate their technical and communication skills . It also helped them to learn and practice the basics of Lab development.

After that, the students and the experiments was divided into two teams. Below are the details of the experiments assigned to the teams. 

Team Details

• Team 1 : Vansh and Vishu
• Team 2: Rohan, Anmol and Tannu

fig. 2 Introduction on Development Program

In the second week, the development of front end and back end of experiments started .The development of  simulator was done in a step wise process started from.

Creating canvas🠆Arranging the components🠆  Writing the scripts🠆 Merging the front and backend🠆 Lastly inserting it in vlab template.

fig. 3 Demo of  Development of experiments 

In the third week, as the development activities was in his last stages, so the teams started working on development of supporting files like storyboard , pedagogy and lab manuals which are as important as other activities in the bootcamp.

                                      Fig. 4 Discussion with the team members 

In the fourth week, as all the development goals was achieved so the teams started deploy the experiments into lab template.

In the fifth week, presentation was given from the teams and other activities was also taking place like review and updation of lab as per the comments of domain experts.

In the sixth week, In the presence of our Prof R.S. Anand final presentation was held from both the teams where each team described their projects in detail and we also discussed about some updation that has to be made in the projects. After that the final product was submitted and distribution of certificates was also done successfully.

Fig. 5 Distribution of Certificates to Participants