‘On the theme of Innovative toys designed with an Indian ethos - Karyr: a team of M.Des Communication Design 1st year students designed a game Tell Your Story and bag second prize at toy hackathon by Amazon.

12^th March 2021, #ToyathonChallenge2020 concludes, and Avantika University MDes 1^st-year Communication Design students Raaj Anilkumar, Richa Raj, and Shruti Gupta bagged the 2^nd position. #ToyathonChallenge2020, powered by Amazon India. A pan-India toy hackathon was conducted to discover interactive, unique, and innovative ideas from enterprising youth. This online hackathon was launched back in December 2020 by Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal, Hon’ble Union Minister of Education, Government of India.

Team Karyr created unique storytelling and story-building game for groups as well as individual players. The game is designed to delve into stories like the Ramayana, festive, Indian dance forms, and elements of nature. Quoted team member Shruti Gupta, “We have created various elements with felt, cut them into shapes, and added a thin magnetic button on the back of the same. We then created a board out of canvas and stainless steel, wrapping a cotton cloth over it. With this arrangement, players, as well as teachers, can go ahead and create multiple game modes using the different elements for recreation as well as learning.”’

Avantika wishes for many more adventurous and successful endeavors in the future rendezvous.