Assemble, don't watch
Students build the setup themselves. Apparatus can be connected wrongly, and doing so produces a wrong reading rather than an error message.
Products — Virtual practical labs
The experiment, when there is no laboratory.
A virtual environment where school students actually perform practical experiments — set up apparatus, take readings, make mistakes and repeat — rather than reading about them. Recognised as a Future Start-up at the RTIH Leaders Lens programme, and in pilot exploration with Andhra Pradesh government schools.
0Pilot regionAndhra Pradesh government schools
0RecognitionFuture Start-up, RTIH Leaders Lens
01 — The problem
Practicals are the first thing a school drops
The practical component of Indian school science is the part most likely to be skipped. Apparatus is expensive, breaks, and is often locked in a cupboard because replacing it is not in the budget. A single lab serves several hundred students, so a 'practical' becomes forty pupils watching one demonstration from the back of the room.
The result is students who can state Ohm's law and have never built a circuit, who can define titration and have never watched an indicator change. They then meet the apparatus for the first time in a board practical exam, or in a first-year engineering lab, and it shows.
The gap is worst in exactly the schools that can least afford it — which is where the pilot is aimed.
02 — The solution
A laboratory that costs nothing to break
Vidya Verse gives every student their own virtual bench. They select apparatus, assemble it, run the experiment, and get a wrong result when they set it up wrongly — because that is where the learning is.
Experiments are built against the state and NCERT practical syllabus, so a teacher can set the same experiment the curriculum already requires rather than working around a separate product.
It is designed for the hardware schools actually have: low-end lab desktops and shared tablets, on connections that drop.
03 — Capabilities
What's in it.
6 capabilities, each of which exists because something specific went wrong without it.
Curriculum-aligned
Experiments mapped to the state and NCERT practical syllabus, so it fits the lab record a school already has to maintain.
Repeatable at no cost
Nothing is consumed and nothing shatters. A student can run the same titration twenty times.
Teacher view
Which students completed which experiment, how many attempts, and where the class consistently goes wrong.
Runs on school hardware
Built for low-end lab desktops and shared tablets, and tolerant of a connection that drops mid-session.
Observation record
Readings and calculations captured as the student works, exportable into the lab record the school submits.
04 — Why this one
What makes it different.
Students perform, not observe
Most 'virtual lab' products are an animation with a play button. If the student cannot set the apparatus up incorrectly, they are watching a video.
Built for the schools that need it
The design constraint is a government school computer lab, not a well-funded private campus. That governs the hardware target and the bandwidth budget.
Fits the existing lab record
Teachers are not asked to run a parallel system. The output slots into the practical record they already maintain.
05 — In production
Where it stands.
0Pilot regionAndhra Pradesh government schools
0RecognitionFuture Start-up, RTIH Leaders Lens
Status
In pilot
Vidya Verse is in pilot exploration with Andhra Pradesh government schools and was recognised as a Future Start-up at the RTIH Leaders Lens programme. If you run a school or a district and want to be part of the next cohort, tell us the syllabus you follow and the hardware in your lab.
See Vidya Verse on your own data.
Thirty minutes in a working environment with your scenario loaded. If it's a bad fit we'll tell you in the call rather than three emails later.