In this page you will find short reports on various events which have been conducted at our Member schools and are worth sharing with all – because they are out of the ordinary academic process. Please feel free to send in reports on school events that you might like to share with the LearnLinQ community. These will be assessed by our editorial team and posted on this page for a short while. Please ensure you give dates and other details and preferably some photos as well.

A review on Science Day Celebration of H.B Kapadia New High School, Memnagar, Ahmedabad

On 2nd March 'Cancer Awareness Day' was held at H.B.K. Memnagar along with the support of Medisurge Hospital. In this excellent, informative exhibition there were a number of posters and charts which gave a detailed insight on the causes, prevention and the types of cancer.

The best part was, H.B.K’ites were fortunate to have Dr. Jagdish Kothari (GI & Hepatobiliary Surgical Oncologist) who gave the students a PowerPoint presentation explaining the whys and hows of cancer. He had a healthy interaction with the students. His message “Prevention is better than Cure & complete awareness of this disease can help us avoid it’’ was loud and clear. The students of standard 8, 9 and 11 were made to realize that they can be the true ambassadors, who after acquiring so much of knowledge about cancer can in turn, be the torch bearers to the society at large.

H.B.K’s managing trustee Shri Muktak N. Kapadia applauded and promised his full support to this noble cause.

A report on special achievements of the students of Abhinava Vidyalaya English Medium High School, Pune.

Roopak Karulkar from Std. X, Abhinava School, Pune has won the Go-DAC (Gaming Olympiad of Disaster and Climate Change) Competition. Akash Jog an Abhinava student from Std. VIII has emerged as runner up in the same competition conducted by 'Neeti Solutions' in Sept-Oct 2009. Almost seven hundred students from various schools in Pune participated in this competition.

Roopak will visit Copenhagen, Denmark in December 2009 as one of the Climate Change Ambassadors representing Global Challenge Award at the climate change conference.

Abhinava School has also bagged the prestigious ISA (International School Award) award organized by the British Council to inculcate internationalism in the subjects taught in the school. The Principal, Mrs Jaya Bhaskar and ISA School Coordinator, Mrs Charu Mathur were invited for the award ceremony organized by British Council Delhi on November 09, ‘09.  They received the award from Sally Coogin, Director of Education, British Council.

A report on a special initiative taken by the students of Shayona International School, Ahmedabad, by Ms Dolly Pathak, Principal..

The whole nation, from celebrities to common men, has celebrated the “Joy of Giving Week” from September 27 to October 3, 2009. However, we feel that giving something back to society can't be restricted to just a week. This should be a 24 x 365 hour activity. To inculcate this habit in our tiny tots we decided to extend this Activity from one week to a whole year.

On sharing our views with our pupils all of them spontaneously responded with full zing and enthusiasm. Few would believe that students between the ages of 5 and 12 collected an amount of Rs. 50,000 from their society. If these young ones can have so much warmth for elderly people then how does this essence of love diminish as we get older?

We celebrated two days at Jeevan Sandhya Old Age Home at Ankur/Naranpura and one day at Matru Chaya Old Age Home at Sanand Talaka on October 8th and 11th. What is important is not the amount that was collected but the beauty of experience, the warmth of love and affection that we received from the residents. They were all so eager to see the children,to live and play with them.

We are left with questions for ourselves and for society. Why can we not control our tears when we visit such places? Whatever our age, we all need love then how can we take such moves that result in old age homes?

All of us have this love embedded deep down in our hearts, it only needs to be polished a bit. So, don't let your love tarnish!