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During our interactions with students in our CAS service projects last year, we realized that the educational
OFF COURSE opportunities availed by children from NGOS are sometimes limited to purely textbook-oriented content, http://blog-la.vie.extraordinaire.de.jaimin/je.m'adore/fr
rather than touching upon valuable real-world skills. Thus, we decided to start Off Course: A CAS project
aimed at bridging the divide in opportunities provided to children. By creating short-courses designed for 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 suivant fin
children about various skills, we took a step towards resolving this divide and provided learning outside their curriculum. We began by brainstorming an Jaimin Shah
area to which we could make a meaningful contribution, and chose the skill-building of children with limited access to content. We then assigned roles to Moi, Jaimin
each of us, ranging from content creation to logistics to fact-checking. By identifying each of our diverse interests and talents - including both academics and Archives
non-academics- we hoped to create strong and accurate content that sparks interests in younger children. We settled on the following courses: 2019 :
Cyber Safety: Most users of the internet do not know a vast majority of the perils or threats that come along with it. Our Cybersafety videos aimed to
make children aware a safe and responsible use of the internet. Mars
Fractals: Maths is a world of never-ending patterns, and fractals are a perfect example of it. While drawing these never-ending patterns may seem Février
impossible, these videos not only gave a simplified version on how to draw but also an insight into applying them in a real world .
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Dance: Who doesn't love dance? However, finding easy choreography to famous songs becomes hard, and these videos aimed to give a step by step
breakdown to a famous Bollywood song, while ensuring easy steps to be performed by young kids.
Morse Code: Everyone has seen morse code being used as a secret method of communication, especially in the climax scenes of movies. While they seem 2018
extremely complex and impossible to crack, our videos were more hobby-based than academic-based, allowing people of all ages to learn something fun 2017
and new.
Game Theory: We aimed to explain game theory in a 2016
simplistic manner, not only to break the myth, but also Mes amis
show how we can actually use it in our day to day lives.
Through the process and interacting with the NGOs we
did face some challenges. Firstly, we had to remake parts
of the videos as we realized that some of the terms we
were using were too technical. Next, we had to find and
learn to add subtitles to videos to increase their Ma liste de conseils
accessibility to our target audience. While these changes
did require a lot of effort, the results were well worth it: pour un bon voyage
the NGOs we spoke to were happy with the results and
the students were happy to put it to use! We hope that
this spirit of learning continues in the future, and as our Articles les plus lus :
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Salut Michelle! “I have seen firsthand the benefits of responsible
production and consumption in the sporting
La semaine dernière, je suis allé à New York avec ma famille. C'est une très grande ville animée.
Nous sommes arrivés à New York en avion à huit heures. D'abord, je suis entré dans la statue world. With strict regulations on materials,
de la liberté et je suis monté au sommet. Puis je suis descendu et je suis entré au MET (musée equipment and attire used, it has become
métropolitain des arts). mandatory for large multinational sporting
companies to incorporate goal 12 in their
Après trois heures, je suis retourné à l'hôtel pour rencontrer ma famille. Ensuite, ma famille est production line. Thus, they are able to do more
venue avec moi à Times Square. C'est magnifique!
with less resources, reduce their ecological
Finalement, nous sommes allés au bâtiment Rockefeller. J'ai appris qu'il est né en 1930! footprint whilst maintaining high quality gear for
Voici mon voyage à New York ! sports people to use worldwide”
Bisous, Smayan. Jispa Doshi
Smayan Khanna

SAATHI If we have felt a sense of confinement, isolation and frustration during Paris, le 1er juillet
the pandemic, one can only imagine what people in old age homes
have faced. Our primary aim was to understand issues faced by 2019
individuals in old age homes, and the impact of the pandemic in
Bonjour Alexander,
worsening issues such as social exclusion and loneliness. We aim to form a basis for interaction between
us, the students, and members of the old age home through a series of activities and events to help J'écris cette lettre pour te parler de
alleviate this sense of distance that lies on both ends. mon voyage à Paris. Le matin, ma
famille et moi sommes arrivés à la tour
We focused on sensitising ourselves to interact with the members of the old age home in the best capacity Eiffel. Nous sommes montés au
that we could. We built on this further by conducting our own research, and we realised that we might be sommet, c'était une belle vue. nous
severely underprepared to do so. We decided to turn to an expert instead, to go beyond the books and avons pris soin de ne pas tomber.
train ourselves for an experience none of us had had before. For this, we spoke to our school counsellor, Après être descendus et sortis, nous
sommes allés déjeuner. j'ai mangé une
Mrs. Vasundhara. We met her during our break so we could talk to her and sensitise ourselves to dealing baguette et du fromage. Nous
with senior citizens with neurodegenerative issues such as dementia. We collaborated with our juniors sommes ensuite allés aux catacombes,
who had founded various artistic clubs such as music and dance club, to put up a series of weekly c'était incroyable. Il y avait des milliers
performances on zoom for the members of the old age home. We worked with BHN Health Care, a d'os des personnes qui sont mortes.
residential home for senior citizens. We planned weekly sessions on Sunday evenings, at mutually suitable Ensuite, nous sommes retournés à la
times to interact with the people of this home. tour Eiffel pour dîner et regarder Paris.
Après nous sommes partis et nous N I
Our Housie event was conducted on the 24th of October. The goal behind it was to raise funds for the sommes allés à l'hôtel et avons dormi. S T A ABILITY
village of Kumbhalgarh, which our school has been associated with for some years, whose houses and U
Amities Aman, S
school had been destroyed by the recent Cyclone Nisarga. However, through this event, we
also engaged the senior citizens at the BHN center to give them a medium of communication Aman Acharya
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