Rotaract News January 2023

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Rotaract nurtures creative skills V Muthukumaran

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otivating and providing career guidance to school students have earned kudos for Rotaractors of RAC CEG (RID 3232) at the Anna University campus. In its 20th edition, Project Vizhithiru (be vigilant) is the flagship event of this club at the College of Engineering, Guindy, and over the last two decades, “we have reached out to 10,000-plus students across government schools in and around Chennai,” says P Gopinath, club secretary. With a tagline ‘… to achieve your dreams,’ the Rotaractors engaged the

students in project and expo phases with a segmented approach to groom them for future challenges. “In the project phase, two batches of 20 members each visited two government schools to perform science experiments and demos to students. The aim is to invoke creative thinking and related skills among them so that the quest for learning is kindled in them,” explains Gopinath. The experiments covered subjects like Maths, Physics, Chemistry and Biology and they were also demonstrated by Rotaractors. Around 100 students were trained in project

experiments by Rotaractors. In the next expo phase, 500 students from four government schools visited the Vivekananda Auditorium at the college campus for a day full of packed events — career guidance, motivation sessions and exhibition by students. “After getting the nod from the government officials, we arranged travel for all the students to our campus, provided lunch and snacks, and visited their stalls where they briefed us on the science models they had exhibited,” he says. Earlier, the career guidance was done at the schools by a team of

School students exhibit their science concepts at the college campus under Project Vizhithiru.

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