By Usha Bhaskar | Senior Manager
Activities taken-up in the last quarter
Workshops to Nurture Creativity and Empower the Girls with Technology Initiatives
The foundation has conducted a marathon of workshops for the girl students across all the project schools in India. These workshops were focused on educating the girls on various scientific principles from Physics and Chemistry depicting the real life situations. The girls were also trained on electric circuits by using LED lights, batteries, wires..Etc. The girls developed various aesthetic materials like “LED hand Wearable , LED Pen , LED Ice cream Stick , LED head band…etc ”. More than 3000 girl students were Impacted with this initiative.
Clean India Campaign
Students from all the project schools participated in “Clean India Campaign” initiated by the honorable prime minister of India. A marathon of cleanliness drives were conducted across all the schools. The students along with the volunteers from Dell participated actively and cleaned the premises of schools and offices. Students from Chennai (City in India) adopted a village and taken the responsibility of cleaning the village in frequent intervals.
Creating Awareness on Swine Flu
These days Swine flu is spreading in all the major cities across India. In order to create awareness among the students the foundation has organized an “orientation session” @ Dell office with the help of Dell volunteers. This orientation session is co conducted through a puppet show. This puppet show was very helpful to the students to the students in understanding the symptoms, prevention and statistics of Swine flu. Now the students are preparing their multimedia projects on Swine Flu to share in their neighborhood.
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