Amrita CREATE, the education-technology research lab of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, provides tablet-based, technology-driven education in remote villages areas through its rural educational program called Amrita Rural India Tablet-enhanced Education (RITE). Working under Amma’s strategic vision, RITE serves to bridge the increasing technology and education divide between urban and rural areas of India. Amrita RITE advocates for education and awareness building from early childhood with the aim of achieving holistic development, and is now active in 41 centres in 21 states across the nation, benefiting both children and adults, including ethnic and indigenous groups.

• CREATE has a unique mix of research talents in the areas of technology-based assessment, language learning, large-scale testing platforms, data visualisation, STEM (Science, Technology, English, Maths) education, virtual learning environments, and technology platform development. Our multidisciplinary teams have the ability to advance the effective use of technology to improve teaching and learning.
• Optimism, vision, questioning, far-sightedness, hard work and quality consciousness characterise our team. These qualities provide a healthy platform for interaction, innovation, growth and change. Each member of the team is futuristic in approach and attitude and ever-ready to take up new challenges to learn, create, and evolve.
• Amrita CREATE organized Amrita serve Rural summer internship for students of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham under the Amrita SeRVe (Amrita Self Reliant Villages), an adoption project of 101 villages in India, commemorating Amma’s 60thbirthday celebrations
• A total of 15 teams dedicated two weeks for selfless service, with 46 students and 16 staff members in total.
• Internships took place in 15 states across India, including: Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Goa, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Bihar, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradeshand Jharkhand.