Future

[Subrahmanya Hegde]

Hi guys,

What are your opinions about prize distribution ceremony? (i seriously don want to spam you people with the same question again and again, sorry if i am already doing that. LOL)

What is the future of this program, as GP madam had rightly said in last week's meeting, it will be very bad on our part to show those kids some hope and ditch the program in the middle. Especially since the school exams start sometime in march, we have to finish this prize distribution thing as soon as possible. And what about the classes for the next academic year fopr the school, their school will start by June i suppose, that is the starting of our holidays. Well, I  understand that everyone of us are really busy, but seeing into the future we need to bring in more people to sustain this initiative, preferably from first year. Can we go to junior classes and campaign? Again, Can you guys suggest something. If everyone is ok, we should do in this week only. 

Waiting for some reply.

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Thanks and Regards,

Subrahmanya 

[Suraj]

As we discussed today, lets see how good the 18th turns out to be.

And yes, the time is right for a re-structuring of the program. We
need to work on both, preparing a proper action plan/scheme for future
classes AND ensure new members come in.If specific persons can work on
specific tasks of re-structuring then it'll be great. We'll decide
this in due time, what say?

If someone has experience in making posters, they would do well to
take up this opportunity to make posters to invite people for the join
covalence. Even otherwise, its not very difficult these days with all
the easy software tools available, hence I would be ready to do that
(as a last resort). We have to put that all around the campus. How
about we do that next week? We'll put the poster on monday (if
possible) and campaign that on week. How does that sound?

One more thing I discovered by accident was that there are other
departments doing the same thing, however to other schools (i think).
If we can work together, then it'll be great.

[prithvi]

s I m in total agreement with both of u but this type of campaign will
attract a pretty good crowd ....even some less interested people join
n then just drop out this will affect the structured programming.so we
have to make it absolutely clear in an orientation session such that
the guys who get in know clearly what they are getting into..n people
who aren't clear about this can also attend these orientation
sessions ... if possible n time permits the seniors can brief everyone
about events conducted till now n the future course of action in an
orientation session.....

[Subrahmanya Hegde]

Nice to see the good positive response. :)

yeah, i agree with both of you. If we can prepare some banner and put at prominent places (read it as nescafe and/or canteen) by monday it should be really good. And we should follow it with the manual campaigning, without which it will be bit incomplete. We can just go to the junior classes and tell them about the program. and ask the interested lot to join at some time in the following week in some place. that way we should can hope for some new stable volunteers,

And Yeah, the prize distribution ceremony will be held on saturday(18th feb) as per today's discussion. We'll start early and finish it off early and the juniors will continue with remaining program that day. 

[Geetha Prakash]

Thanks a lot for the posts. My remarks on some of them
1. Prize distribution-Feb 18th seems fine. Can any of the alumni join us ?
2. Other dept following suit. On behalf of the EC dept I have been on this since 2007 with quite a big number of students  and the others are replicating almost the same activities . We tried collaborating, but did not work out. Turnout of students of other depts at meetings was very low. Mismatch of timings, etc.So that option is almost ruled out, though interested students of other depts can be a part of it. May be we should look at the first year students. Putting up posters is a good idea. Orientation for them is a must, as Prithvi rightly says
3. Structured classes are a must.
4. What about the lab ? When shall we take it up, this summer  ????

Regards
GP

[Nikhil Baliga]

Hi everyone,

   I know this reply comes after a pretty long hiatus, but I have been reading all the mails. I agree with all the points that have been made so far - If the lab is still being planned, I believe it is a great idea and should be taken up. Regarding structured classes, I completely agree that the classes need to be structured, but my only concern is that if the classes are run like classes, I don't know if they will really be excited - If we can come up with some kind of activity based classes, it will be more interesting. (Cloud Mentor run by my batchmate Nikhil Gumbhir uses activities based approach, and seems to be quite popular among kids - normally, lectured based approaches are considered as a drone...) Again, this is just an idea. Regarding prize distribution, I will try to get other alumni to join as well. And regarding the future, like GP Madam always says, we need to create a chain of students where each batch knows their juniors. This not only helps run programmes such as these, but also will be very useful in the long run when you are looking for career changes, etc. So yeah, these are a few of my thoughts.

Warm Regards,

Nikhil Baliga

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GP

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Thank you, on behalf of the children, for being part of the "Covalence" group.

[addy]

Hi All,
Great to see an enthusiastic group for a good cause. Had met GP Ma'am
off late and she was appreciative of the efforts you all have put
together.
Most of you don't know me, I am a 2007 pass out of ECE and have been
actively working with couple of NGO's in Bangalore for the last 4
years where my role spans across structuring programs and arranging
finances for those programs. Have worked in designing of course
modules, English training programs, Vocational training programs &
Infrastructure development ( Science/computer Labs, AV rooms, Play
rooms, SMART Classes etc)
For an initiative as big and sustainable as this, there is a definite
merit in structuring the task force into modular units with well
defined roles and responsibilities.
That will also help raise the next set of volunteers and keep the flow
going seamlessly.

I have always stressed upon connecting any project with the commercial
value for building up a strong pipeline of human resources. Even
though this is a self initiative of helping out a 'near'
underprivileged school, there is alot of commercial value for new
volunteers to join the working group and help drive this.
If we can articulate that to the audience, I am hopefull we can get a
strong pool of new volunteers to help you all.

We tried connecting 2 weeks back but for some reasons we couldn't. Is
it possible for you all to accomodate your schedule so that we all can
regroup once ? I can offer my suggestions and you all can then decide
what ideas (if any) to assimilate in your project.
I can manage early morning (8-10am) any day (except Sunday). Any time
till 1pm on a Saturday.
(* Is it possible to meet tomorrow morning at PESIT ? )
Kindly let me know.

Regards,
Addy

On Feb 3, 9:56 am, Nikhil Baliga <baliganik...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
>    I know this reply comes after a pretty long hiatus, but I have been
> reading all the mails. I agree with all the points that have been made so
> far - If the lab is still being planned, I believe it is a great idea and
> should be taken up. Regarding structured classes, I completely agree that
> the classes need to be structured, but my only concern is that if the
> classes are run like classes, I don't know if they will really be excited -
> If we can come up with some kind of activity based classes, it will be more
> interesting. (Cloud Mentor run by my batchmate Nikhil Gumbhir uses
> activities based approach, and seems to be quite popular among kids -
> normally, lectured based approaches are considered as a drone...) Again,
> this is just an idea. Regarding prize distribution, I will try to get other
> alumni to join as well. And regarding the future, like GP Madam always
> says, we need to create a chain of students where each batch knows their
> juniors. This not only helps run programmes such as these, but also will be
> very useful in the long run when you are looking for career changes, etc.
> So yeah, these are a few of my thoughts.
>
> Warm Regards,
> Nikhil Baliga
>
> --

> Check out Artistick athttp://cartoonsbynikhilbaliga.blogspot.com/

>
> On 3 February 2012 00:08, Geetha Prakash <
>
>
>
> geetha.prakash%pes....@gtempaccount.com> wrote:
> > Thanks a lot for the posts. My remarks on some of them
> > 1. Prize distribution-Feb 18th seems fine. Can any of the alumni join us ?
> > 2. Other dept following suit. On behalf of the EC dept I have been on this
> > since 2007 with quite a big number of students  and the others are
> > replicating almost the same activities . We tried collaborating, but did
> > not work out. Turnout of students of other depts at meetings was very low.
> > Mismatch of timings, etc.So that option is almost ruled out, though
> > interested students of other depts can be a part of it. May be we should
> > look at the first year students. Putting up posters is a good idea.
> > Orientation for them is a must, as Prithvi rightly says
> > 3. Structured classes are a must.
> > 4. What about the lab ? When shall we take it up, this summer  ????
>
> > Regards
> > GP
>
> > --
> > Thank you, on behalf of the children, for being part of the "Covalence"

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