Sunday, October 29, 2006

towards building blocks

So we began looking for clear questions to address:

Anar wondered:

'How does a 10th standard student decide what subjects to take for 10th and beyond that?'

This was an important question because very few of us have a deep understanding of where each stream can take us at that age.Often, after completing our degrees we realise that we possess skills that might be useful in a totally different field when compared to what we are headed for, or worse still, that we are not really cut out for the degree we are pursuing. To prevent this serious situation from ever occurring, we felt that ideas like grade 10 students doing summer internships; seminars and workshops in schools or internet diaries where experts from various fields would describe their experiences highlighting the kind of skills one needs to be in a particular profession were some of the possible solutions. This lead to some more ideas that could be discussed.

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Thursday, October 26, 2006

how it all began

Anar - a film maker/project manager who works with Educational Initiatives (an research based organisation);
Archana - Inspiration Manager with Indicorps (a nonprofit organisation);
Juie - a fellow at Indicorps who is working at India Service Initiative and
Mohan - who teaches at The Riverside School and works with Educational, Initiatives met on a random note and...

Over tea discussed various issues like education, career, culture etc that we all felt strongly about. Our own experience told us that there were many people like us who felt the need and urge to make a difference or change something but were unable to do anything about their ideas because of a lack of direction or the absence of resources, .

Well - Juie said "Kuch to KARO yaar"!!

BINGO! - all of us loved it!

nice name...

BUT what could we do? Archana hit the nail on the head, "well to start with lets just get such people together.... ".

aha! TRUE!! much will happen just from the fact that we are together. Ideas will grow into solutions and then lead on to implementation.

Every sunday at 4pm. If you would like to take part, drop us a line at kuchtokaroyaar@gmail.com with a brief intro and the question(s) that you’d like to think/talk about.