Olimalar's founder realised how much she'd have benefited from these lessons growing up
“I realised how much I would have benefited from these lessons growing up.”Aarthi Veerupillai, founder of the Olimalar Foundation
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The TinkerSpace team came to reflect on their year
A day-long planning meetup to reflect, dream up next steps, and shape the maker space’s future.
On February 4, TinkerHub's TinkerSpace team — Mehar, Arundathi, Kurian, Reema, Saneem, Abid and Jasim — spent the day reflecting on the year so far and what lies ahead in 2025. Shemeer and Abhiram held space for the discussion. aikyam space was itself inspired by TinkerSpace, where the aikyam fellows team spent many months as guests.
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