200 students from 6 villages in Karnataka benefited through a special program arranged by India Sudar and Samsung Seva Team

Dear All,

India Sudar and Samsung Seva Team have arranged a special program for 10th standard students from 6 rural villages in Karnataka. There are 200 students participated and benefited.

Date: 06th March, 2010, Saturday

Venue : Government High School, Gedare(Chikkaballapur), Karnataka
Members Involved (India Sudar and Samsung) : L A Santhosh, Raghavendra, Bhargav, Ravikumar Kalaimani, Rajasekar, Biji and Deepak
Duration of the Event: 10:00am – 01:30pm

Govt schools participated :

(1) Gedare,

(2) Chikkakurugodu,

(3) Alipura
(4) Alkapura

(5) Kadallaveni

Sequence of Events:

Students from 6 different schools all belonging to 10th std were assembled in a class room.
Pamphlets containing information about different Careers prospects after 10th std and details about the 10th std examinations was distributed to all the students.

In the first session(10:00am – 11:30am), Prof Subbanna addressed all the students and gave them tips as how to crack the 10std examinations. He also familiarized the students with the new format of the examinations and all doubts regarding these were cleared.

In the second session(11:40am – 12:15pm), Prof Subbanna put forth the various career prospects available to students after completion of their standard 10. This was a interactive session and the motivational speech at the end was the highlight of this session.

In the final session(12:30pm – 01:20pm), Prof Subbanna enlightened the teachers about the innovative methods of teaching and ways of boosting the students confidence before exams. The question bank books were distributed to teachers. Information regarding how to use the question bank and the various subject books(compilation of previous year papers and the papers released by SSLC Board) was given to the teachers.

We have received good feedback from students and they requested us to conduct such programs for remaining students in all the govt schools in and around Chikkaballapur. Teachers requested us to conduct such programs little earler from next year onwards.

At the end of this session, Ravikumar K presented Prof Subbanna with a India Sudar T-Shirt as a token of appreciation.

Prof Subbanna deserves a special mention for his enthusiasm and his motivation even at the age of 82.

Professor Subbanna and his success stroy : After a successful career in NCERT and education departments, he has taken up the noble cause of guiding rural kids on the career opportunities available. He has also authored several books on career guidance and on cracking the state, CBSE and ICSE exams. He has conducted several workshops in Govt. schools towards this cause (including Kakolu where we conducted the quiz recently).

This was followed by a small photo session with the students, the photos of which and the above mentioned events can be found at http://picasaweb.google.com/indiasudar/InteractiveSessionWithProfSubbannaFor10thStandardStudentsKARNATAKA?feat=directlink.

The event was successful and the India Sudar and Samsung teams efforts in making the event successful was highly appreciated.

India Sudar thanks G C Ramachandraiah – Headmaster of gedare, Seshadri – Headmaster of Chikkakurugodu, Volunteers involved and Samsung team members for taking special interest in making this event successful.