GHPS HINKAL · MYSURU, KARNATAKA

Where a government
classroom builds
robots, worlds, and futures.

meet. make. marvel.

M Lounge is a robotics, VR and experiential-learning lab built inside a government primary school — where children design, wire, code and test their own inventions instead of just reading about them.

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Madhusudan K S demonstrating a mechanical build to a group of students at M Lounge
Guiding students through a working gear-and-pulley build, M Lounge
2019
Lab founded
17+ yrs
Teaching science
3
Disciplines — robotics, VR, drones
Nat'l
Teacher award, 2025
The story

Built from personal resources, one tray of parts at a time

M Lounge — short for Camp, Create, Celebrate — began in 2019 as a small corner stocked from a teacher's own pocket. By 2023 it had grown into a fully operational makerspace inside GHPS Hinkal, a government higher primary school in Mysuru.

There's no lecture at the front of this room. Children sit in clusters around trays of gears, motors and VR headsets, taking a real build apart to see how it thinks, then putting their own version together.

"Education is not just my profession — it is my purpose."

The long-term goal is bigger than one room: to make M Lounge one of the best school robotics labs in the world, with international partnerships already in progress.

  • 2008Started teaching science — the practice this lab grew out of.
  • 2019M Lounge begins, built with personal resources inside GHPS Hinkal.
  • 2023Lab reaches full operation — robotics, drones, AI and 3D printing in daily use.
  • 2024Karnataka State Best Teacher Award, from the Chief Minister of Karnataka.
  • 2025National Best Teacher Award, presented by the President of India.
  • NowWorking toward international partnerships and a world-class robotics lab.
What happens here

Three ways of learning by doing

Every session in M Lounge trades the textbook for a build, a headset or an open-ended problem — the same idea in three different materials.

R

Robotics & STEM

Students design, wire and program working models — gears, pulleys, sensors and simple robots — learning physics and logic through their own hands rather than a diagram on a board.

VR

Virtual reality

Headsets turn abstract science into a place you can walk through — the human body, the solar system, a chemical reaction — replacing a static diagram with an experience students can look around inside.

E

Experiential learning

Every unit is rebuilt as an activity: a model to construct, a problem to solve, a real drone to fly. Concepts are learned by testing them, not by memorising them.

In the news

A government-school lab, on national television

M Lounge's work with students in Mysuru was featured as part of a national broadcast segment recognising the National Best Teacher Award.

National broadcast feature, Mysuru, Karnataka — 2025.

Recognition

Awards along the way

2025–26

National Best Teacher Award

Awarded by the President of India
2024–25

Karnataka State Best Teacher Award

Awarded by the Chief Minister of Karnataka
2025–26

DH Change Maker Award

Deccan Herald
2025–26

Metro Kannadiga Award

Deccan Herald
Madhusudan K S, founder of M Lounge
Founder

Madhusudan K S

Assistant Teacher, GHPS Hinkal · Founder, M Lounge Innovations

Teaching science since 2008, Madhusudan has spent the years since building M Lounge from a personal collection of parts into a working robotics, VR and experiential-learning lab inside a government primary school. He also runs a YouTube channel on robotics, 3D printing, VR and AI in education.

His goal reaches beyond one classroom: turning schools like this one into hubs of hands-on invention, and eventually building one of the best robotics labs in the world, right here in Mysuru.

  • Email — madhusudan2684@gmail.com
  • Phone — +91 96327 43962
  • Location — Vijayanagar 2nd Stage, Mysuru, Karnataka, India
M Lounge Innovations
Get in touch

Bring M Lounge to your school

Open to invitations for sessions, school-transformation projects, robotics-lab setup, and collaborations on experiential STEM education.

Email madhusudan2684@gmail.com Call +91 96327 43962