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Madam Curious

Madam Curious is the work of a bunch of idealists making an honest attempt to improve the way science education is imparted to young children.

With our videos (and soon to be launched app), we aspire to wow kids with the beauty of science, and how it affects every little aspect of our daily lives. We want them to start thinking about it as a powerful tool to solve the world's most challenging and important problems, rather than a mere subject to be learnt in the confines of a classroom. In all our earnestness, we want to instill a strong scientific temperament in children.

Madam Curious is free to use for teachers, parents, children, everyone. It is ideal for teaching middle-school children, and is designed around topics and concepts taught in a typical Indian middle-school curriculum.

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Our Videos

Science is at work all around us, in every little thing we do or see. Through the centuries, great scientists have observed these little things in their day to day lives, and questioned "why?". The answers they have discovered, or invented, have powered our progress up to the present day.

In keeping with this spirit of curiosity, our videos explain scientific concepts through short "slice of life" films, depicting curious children going about their daily lives, unearthing the magic of science in what we may otherwise think of as the most mundane and taken-for-granted things.

Currently our videos are in household Hindi, using English words for technical terms. We are working on providing subtitles in English and various Indian languages.

All our videos are on YouTube, organized into ordered playlists that tackle various topics and slowly build on previous videos. Here is an example:

Our App

In addition to the videos, our app will let learners interact with the friendly Madam Curious, our very own science teaching "bot". We have built many hours worth of interactions that will serve to reinforce and deepen the concepts taught in the videos.

As with the videos, we plan to provide these interactions in Hindi, English and various Indian languages.

Creators

An education system that often rewards rote learning goes against a strong understanding of concepts, and inhibits the development of critical thinking & problem solving skills.

This is really unfortunate, because these very qualities will be necessary for today's children looking for fulfilling careers in the years to come.

We are a passionate team of people who want to help nurture and build thinking and problem solving skills, early enough that they become ingrained forever. Madam Curious the result of building, rebuilding and refining our learning content and its delivery mechanism based on a lot of feedback from educators and early users.

Saumya V Kanoria

Saumya V Kanoria

Cornell University, U of Illinois Urbana Champaign, computer scientist, entrepreneur

Vivek Dadu

Vivek Dadu

IIIT - Allahabad, ex-Microsoft, teacher by passion

S K Amarnath

S K Amarnath

Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, NIT - Karnataka, computer scientist, software architect