NSS organises sports competitions for children

“Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.”

The students of NSS IIT Roorkee organised sports competitions for the children of Khanjarpur and Bhangeri village. The event was organised on January 26, 2016 in Subash Chandra Bose Club. Total forty-two students aged between 8-12 years took part in the competition. Before the event the volunteers had gone door to door to tell children about the event. A lot of preparation and planning was done beforehand before organizing the event.

First single lane race was organised for the children. It was followed by marble on spoon race, frog race and three leg race. Both boys and girls actively and enthusiastically participated in the events. Even some parents had come to cheer for their children. The children were so excited that many times they used to start running even before the count to start finished. Those who were not in the race were cheering for their friends. Volunteers as well as children both enjoyed a lot. The event lasted for about two and half hours. After all the races were over, prizes were given to the winners. At the end all the children were given refreshments. Vishal Pundir, a student of class 7th and the winner of the single lane race said that he enjoyed a lot and also that such events should be conducted regularly by NSS.

The aim of NSS IIT Roorkee is all-around development of children. The future of our country is in the hands of these children, Hence besides teaching children, it also holds such events. Events like these teach children importance of sports in life, team-spirit, discipline, sportsmanship and help them in overall development. They also instil competitive spirit and confidence in children. We can be sure of our country's bright future only if the children are both physically and mentally fit.

Drawing Competition

 Art needs no introduction, it speaks for itself. It’s said that “Drawing is exercise for a restless imagination”. To a person it imparts the ability to express things that are difficult to say. It enables others a peek of the creativity that lies hidden inside every one of us.

Children undoubtedly are the most artistic. RT Education cell of NSS IIT Roorkee endeavored to unleash the imagination of underprivileged children by organizing a drawing competition in the government school of the khanjarpur village. The event commenced in the morning at the school itself where the    students participated eagerly. The drawing materials like sheets, pencils, erasers, colors, etc was provided by the NSS. Children from classes 1 to 8 turned up for the competition in large numbers. All of them were excited.

The topic of the contest was “Save earth and save trees”. The event lasted about one and a half hours and then the drawing sheets were collected. Each entry was unique. The participants were called in the evening for prize distribution. After awarding first, second and third prizes from each class all the other children were given a pack of biscuits as consolation prize.

It was a successful endeavor by the students of the RT education cell of NSS that offered the poor children a way to express their thoughts.

RT Education organizes event on Gandhi Jayanti

“Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.” It is this very quote which motivates the members of the RT Education Cell of NSS, IIT Roorkee to go to the Khanjarpur village on a near daily basis and teach those children who can’t afford education. But that is not their only purpose as many fun events are also organized by them for the entertainment and knowledge enhancement of the kids. And one such event was held on the auspicious day of 2^nd October, 2015, that is Gandhi Jayanti.

The event was a fun activity held mainly to make the children aware about Mahatma Gandhi’s role in fighting injustice in both South Africa and India.

The event began sharp at 6PM, right after the classes of the children held there prior to six. The first half of the program involved showing a movie on Gandhi to the children present there. The movie traced Gandhi’s life from birth up until his return to India and his subsequent non-cooperation movement. The movie taught the kids that being honest to oneself and to our loved ones is a very important thing in life.

 In the second half of the program the children were asked general questions based on the movie. And those who were able to correctly answer were given lovely gifts. A few of the children even answered multiple times. And with this, the event came to a conclusion around 7PM.

After the short movie and quiz, a few of the children were even commended for the great academic progress that they had shown over the previous few weeks.

Seeing the enthusiasm of the kids it can be firmly stated that these children are interested and even excited to learn and grow.

Hindi Diwas Celebration

“A country that does not take pride in its language and literature can never progress.”

RT Education cell of NSS, IIT Roorkee organised an "Hindi Essay Writing Competition", augmenting the eve of ‘Hindi Diwas’  . The event was held on 14/9/2015 at Chediram Junior High School.

Hindi has been recognized as the 2^nd most spoken language around the world, yet it has somewhat lost a step in its very own country. The quality of literature has seen a steep decline and the future of Hindi literature has been questioned one too many times. Therefore to promote Hindi literature, an ‘Essay Writing Competition’ was conducted in the school premises. The students wrote on various topics ranging from ‘Significance of Independence Day’ to ‘Teacher’s Day Celebrations’. There were a total of 17 participants, which included students from 8^th-10^th classes.  They were given 20 minutes to write the essay, out of which the best 3 were orated by the student’s themselves. The essays were very well written and the students were successful in showcasing their beautiful vocabulary and unique styles of writing.

The winners then read out their essays and were lauded by the crowd. This was followed by Prize Distribution in which our NSS students congratulated the winners and rewarded them with books and chocolates. The event was concluded by a group photograph of all the winners and NSS workers. 

Hindustan is incomplete without ‘Hindi’, and it is small strides like these which will help us popularize the language furthermore.

Khanzarpur kids demonstrate Physics experiment at Srishti '15

Visitors looking at the models

It was once again the time for children of Khanzarpur village to exhibit brilliant scientific models with the help of RT Education cell. Srishti '15 provided a platform to these kids of the village adopted by RT Education to present their models on basic fundamentals of Physics and showcase their interest towards science. RT Education helps in cultivating this interest and gives free coaching to the children of Khanzarpur and nearby villages. It is constantly involved in helping them develop through various events, like this one. The models were highly appreciated by professors, students, and visitors from other colleges. This further motivated the students to continue with their efforts.

Experiment of a student

Quiz-Buzz

                                                     

The students of IIT Roorkee under NSS RT-Education cell organized a quiz competition at Government Primary School (Shri CheddiRam Yadav School), Khanzarpur. The timings for the event were 6-7pm. The event was planned to be open for anyone studying in class1-12 regardless of their place of study. Before the event a promotion drive was scheduled for the time slot 5-6pm.

Quiz organised on 5th September, on occasion of Teacher's Day 

All the students from first year RT-Education Cell and their immediate supervising seniors reported on time. After the division of all present in small teams, every team was assigned a particular nearby lane and more to cover. The purpose was to spread the word about the quiz competition and encourage children to join the regular classes, i.e., conducted by RT-Education cell of NSS daily from 6-7pm at the same place. This task was undertaken with zeal and enthusiasm befitting of the occasion. Procedure dictated for the participants was to observe and watch closely then to answer the asked questions. 

RT-Education Cell Students organizing Quiz

The preplanned modus operandi was to show a short motivational video by “Kuch Aapka Emotional Fulls” that was about the essence and spirit of teacher’s day after that the participants were asked questions about the preview. Similarly questions were asked respectively after a PowerPoint presentation of great personalities of nation like Bhagat Singh, Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Swami Vivekananda, many more and their Date off births and lastly a short movie about the life of Dr.Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. 

Active participation from students

Some mayhem and humorous situations occurred due to the participant zeal and enthusiasm to take part. A ball-point pen was deemed fit to be given as prize to the ones who answered correctly. 

Child receiving reward

Then after a general photo session of all the participants as a group to mark and cherish the occasion, chocolates were distributed to all of the participants irrespective of whether he/she won or didn’t even try to answer a single question.  They were told why we feel the need to assign a whole day to respect and honor our teachers and why it is celebrated on the same day as Dr.Radhakrishnan’s Birthday.

SRISHTI EXHIBITION

The Annual Srishti Exhibition 2013 of IIT Roorkee was held with an aim to provide opportunities to every section of the hobbies club and other groups in the campus to showcase their innovative works. It was held as a three day event starting from 15^th March, 2013 to 17^th March, 2013. As a part of this event, the RT Education Cell of NSS made an initiative to display some of their best works. It mostly consisted of projects made by middle school kids studying in schools inside and nearby the campus. The event ran from 11a.m. in the morning to 9 p.m. at night.

The exhibition consisted of 9 main projects:

1.The first project featured a way to make street lighting more efficient by making them lit up only when a car was passing by.

2.The second project showed a Newton disk proving that visible light consisted of 7 component colors.

3.This project proved the lens law, which governs the way light change its direction while passing through different types of lenses.

4.In this project Pythagoras theorem was proved using 3D models.

5.This project showed an electroscope which detects charge whenever a charged body is touched to it.

6.This project was a matrix which had a network of electrical circuits which lit up small bulbs when connected in a correct pattern.

7.This project depicted a model of the whole of solar system.

8.It was an alarm whose circuit is completed whenever the water reached the top of the tank.

9.The last project depicted an arrangement of mirror for finding the number of images formed by any such arrangement with a certain angle between them.

The response from the participants and visitors alike was heartwarming. “It was a bigger success than anyone could have ever expected” said Kapil Suyal, the General Secretary of NSS. Overall the event was a great success, attracting more than 500 people and everyone learnt something new and witnessed a series of innovation from the young minds of India.

Poster Making Competition

A poster making competition was organised by the students of RT Education Cell on Saturday, 13th October 2012. The event started at 5 pm and the topics for the competition were Pollution, Go Green, Save Water and Waste management.

Initially, the NSS volunteers explained about the major problems, types of pollution, problems of deforestation, consequences of wasting water and improper disposal of waste products and thereafter explained their remedies, benefits of going green and saving water with the help of hand-made posters. They also asked the participating children what they learnt.

Almost 80 children in the age group of 6-12 years participated in this competition with great enthusiasm and zeal to learn. After explaining the different topics, the children were divided into groups of 3-5. Pencils, colours and sheets were provided to the children. At the end, prizes were distributed to the students who did well and chocolates were given to all to encourage the children.

Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram...

On the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti 2nd October 2012, RT Education cell of NSS IIT Roorkee organised a student awareness program in Subhash Chandra Bose Club enlightening the kids, the future citizens about the most common and least bothered problem prevailing in our country, Human Trafficking. Why, how and what are happening in the black world around us and what not are to be done in order to protect ourselves from these hazards were very well explained in an interactive manner by second year members of NSS, Harshith Agarwal and Shubham Jain. This session was followed by a thought provoking speech on our beloved leader Lal Bahadhur Shastri by second year NSS Member, Nagamani. A motivational video on integrity was also played to students. The session was concluded with the vote of thanks by the Cell Secretary Brajesh Kumar.

Quiz during Independence Day...

On the occasion of Independence Day, RT Education Cell organized an oral Quiz competition for children at C Class Club during 3pm to 4pm. The quiz was mainly based on Indian History, freedom fighters and their struggles. The use of audio-visual clips in asking questions made the competition more interesting. After the quiz, Indian flag making competition was organized. The best three flags were awarded with prizes. Goodies & toffees were also distributed among the children. The celebration came to an end with the National Anthem. 

SWADES Movie Screening

“FULL HOUSE,” that’s exactly what the Bose auditorium of physics department cried on 25^th January as it held a special screening of the movie Swades: We The People organized by RT Education (Disha). It was an effort to rekindle the feeling of patriotism among the students on the eve of Republic Day.

With Gandhism as its main theme, the movie brought its viewers close to humanitarian essentials, questioning the existence of the Panchayat System in the villages, debating the needs of an education system, need for working in unison and the utter poverty, cultural disbeliefs of people.

Though the movie revolved around topics of great concern and with a running time of more than three hours, it kept the students glued to their seats. The screening was not just aimed to educate the students about their country’s problems, but to remind about a responsibility, to act and make a difference. 

Origami Event by RT Education

“ART”, the expression of human creative skills and imaginations... A form of leisure in which human mind finds the most satisfaction… With the motive of bringing something innovative out of the children of DISHA classes, the RT Education cell of NSS IIT Roorkee organised an event on 21^st and 22^nd January 2012 at the C Class Club which was based on “ORIGAMI”, a Japanese art of making objects with paper by merely folding it, without cutting or tearing.

A huge enthusiastic crowd of students gathered there and made several objects associating each one with their childhood and giving wings to their imagination.  A TULIP FLOWER, a PARTY HAT, a SAIL BOAT, a TWIRLING BIRD, a JUMPING FROG, a LADYBIRD, a BALL are few of the numerous objects that they made. The activity fostered their imagination. They thoroughly enjoyed and found origami to be a thrilling and informative experience.

The amount of endeavour and interest put in by the students of the village was highly appreciable and finally what came out of paper was sheer and spectacular.  This event of Origami, like other events of RT EDUCATION was based on the motive of inculcating imagination and invoking ideas in the highly perceptive minds of the children which is one of the most important and key-elements of Education. The event lived up to the NSS motive of bringing joy and imparting knowledge to the less fortunate ones and was a huge success.