What is it?
An all-Bengal educational campaign in 1000 selected Plus 2 Schools in which SRF (in partnership with Adamas University) shall organize day-long workshops on themes of wide interest among HS School students. This shall be our Academic Social Responsibility (ASR), and an individual social responsibility of mentors and learners of Adamas University to #EachOneReachOne after a huge academic loss due to the pandemic. We shall send pre-study and viewing content to the registered participants after a HS School decides on the theme of the workshop, and a task to be done in advance by the participants in groups.
A power-point presentation shall be given on the given theme, detailed and well-illustrated with loads of cases and exercises on the spot. Videos, podcasts, diagrams, charts, pictures will be used liberally. Some quiz, some on-the-spot performances, tests, simulated situations, and the earlier task response etc shall be taken up in the second half of the day.
Workshop is ideally of five hours with a gap of one hour for lunch after two and half hours. Choice of the theme of the workshop in a school is on the school management and a maximum of two workshops for one school with different set of participants. Attempt should be to encourage one workshop from the STEM background and one from the non-STEM background of learning.
Benefits for schools, as per their need
What do the Participants get?
- Online orientation and technical session on innovation and entrepreneurship: how to initiate and institutionalize these in the school’s ecosystem.
- Opportunity to visit and have exposition talk at BIRAC E-YUVA Centre at Kolkata.
- Mentoring for creation of tinkering labs/ organizing innovation workshops etc at the school.
- Opportunity to participate in Adamas Career Counselling sessions specifically in new age domains from any discipline.
Every participant will be given a participation certificate by the University. Based on the individual responses and performance in tasks, a grade for the participation, best team (maximum of 3 participants) shall be suitably awarded and invited for final all-Bengal competitions in Kolkata in 2023. One student from each workshop shall be given a scholarship for higher studies.
Which Themes?
- Robotics & AI-ML Workshop: Introduction to robotics, artificial intelligence and machine learning and careers therein. Also, on new age computers-IT-ITES careers.
- Media Literacy: How do you know that a news or advertising or a social media post is fake or not? Also, on media careers.
- Legal Literacy: What are the basic laws of the land that a young adult must know? Also, an exposure on legal careers.
- Health Literacy: What are the basics of a good health and how do you keep your immunity & wellness high? Careers in Healthcare and Medical Science also discussed.
- Communication Skills Workshop: Basic Communication Skills, focused on English communication, needed for Higher Education. Careers with English language, literature & linguistics also discussed.
- Stress Management Workshop: Basic tips, ways and means to manage pressures and stress in daily life. Careers in Psychology also discussed.
- Entrepreneurship & Innovation: Entrepreneurs play a key role in economy using innovative skills and initiatives to bring new ideas to the market.What are the process of setting up a business ?
- Film Appreciation: Understanding good Cinema: the ways and means of studying films. With careers in film and entertainment discussed.
- Performance Workshop: How to speak, debate, sing, dance, act, in brief, in any form perform in front of camera or audience? Practical tips. With discussion on performance jobs.
- Scientist in the Making: How to be a scientist? What are the areas and ways and means to equip oneself for being one? Scientific careers also detailed.
Steps to Celebrate Learning
- SRF-AU team to contact the Principals of 500 schools with this project, inform about the steps, and the inaugural function.
- SRF-AU team to curate self-study content and pre-assignment, design the content for the workshop, and exhibits for the mobile exhibition of Education & Career Choices.
- Registration of participants to start (minimum 100 for one session).
- Self-study content to be sent to the registered participants.
- The series to start from JULY, 2022 onwords.
- Day long program in each school campus as noted earlier, with certificates and awards ceremony within 5 pm the same day.
- The winners’ fest and contests at AU Campus in Kolkata to be organized in February 2023. Details to be shared separately for this.
Samit Ray Foundation
We believe education is a fundamental human right and essential for the exercise of all human rights. Unfortunately, access to basic education has been a distant dream for thousands of young children, particularly in the margins of society. Evolving from the endeavours of RICE Group, SAMIT RAY FOUNDATION (SRF) was conceived to work towards a common goal of making education accessible for all.
Tracing the origins of Samit Ray Foundation takes us back to the politically tumultuous 80s in Bengal, when youths were disillusioned and did not feature anywhere in the job radar. It was in this backdrop that Prof. Samit Ray, a true visionary, started Roy’s Institute of Competitive Examinations (RICE) to create more professional opportunities in the arena of government services in West Bengal, through preparatory training for qualifying examinations. What started back in 1985 in a single room in north Kolkata has spread all over the nation today, having created more than 2,00,000 successful professionals in the arena of government services. Prof. Samit Ray was always ahead of his times and at the helm of ushering in a wave of modernization in the field of education. His expertise and vision for the future was backed with a dream to create liberating spaces of enlightenment where bright young minds would no longer perceive education as a burden. This paved the way for Adamas World School, Adamas International School and Adamas University among others, where youths can build a solid foundation for their future.
Adamas University
Adamas University, with a sprawling green campus extending over 100 acres, nestled in Barasat (13 kms away from the Subash Chandra Bose International Airport Kolkata), and in its 5th year of operation, aspires to impart finest quality education to the young minds of West Bengal, with an already established high quality research facility and a powerful team of teachers. The University has many international initiatives collaborating with the industries and educational institutes to facilitate projects, research and student exchange programs. Currently, in its 5th year, the campus has 3500+ current students and more than 2000 resident students & faculty members. The University has been established with the vision of providing quality education to students to help them become professionally competent as well as academically knowledgeable under the 10 Schools of Studies.
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