Dharwad LEADer Conducts Essay and Drawing Competition for 150 Students

LEADer Rajeshwari and her team members Avishek, Nikita, Ravi, Ranjan, Amitrao, and Vallabha of SDMCET, Dharwad conducted Swadesh Expo 13, an inter-school essay writing and drawing competition for schools in the Dharwad region.  

Over 150 students between 4th and 7th STD participated in the competition.  The students were given two hours to complete their essays and drawings.  The competition allowed the students to showcase their brilliant ideas and extraordinary imagination skills.

Rajeshwari says, "It was a quite new experience managing the kids and answering to their small and  interesting queries. The management also gave a very good response. The principal arrived and showed keen interest in looking into every student's drawing and encouraging him/her."

After collecting the essay and drawing sheets, Rajeshwari and her team distributed sweets to the participants.  The team really loved seeing the smiles on the children's faces.  They then went to the Vice Principal's chamber and showed her the imaginative and impressive essays and drawings created by the children.  The Vice Principal was happy to see such great talent in the students. 

 

LEAD Students Remember Kargil Vijay Diwas

On July 26th, 2013, LEADers Suvina and Rachana  from SDMCET, Dharwad, wanted to create a special remembrance and appreciation for the soldiers who fought at Kargil Vijay Diwas, as well as instill a strong sense of patriotism, among high school students. They organized an essay writing competition at St. Joseph's High School in Dharwad.  Through creative written expression, 50 students memorialized the lost soldiers and celebrated their love for India.

Sir Shayam Malangoudar (Faculty, St. Joseph's High School) shared his views on Kargil Vijay Diwas. He also appreciated the LEAD Program for helping coordinate events such as this that enlighten the society for a better tomorrow.

Project: Voting Awareness Program

Pavaman Gaddankeri (SDMCET, Dharwad)

During the last elections, only 50% of the population vote.  To change and improve these statistics, LEAD students of SDMCET organized a Voting Awareness Program in order to create awareness about voting and to increase voting participation.  

The Voting Awareness Program was carried out by door-to-door visits, starting at 10AM, in the areas of Gandhinagar, Yalakkishettar.  The students, carrying signs saying "WE VOTE", broke out into six different groups led by Pavaman Gaddankeri, Sammer Chitnis, Rachana Horadi, Sangamesh reshmi, Suraj Lingdal, Praveen Gouda Patil, and Govind G.N.  The program ended at 5 PM after visiting a total of 560 houses.  

All of the groups commented that, overall, interacting with the people was a "great experience", although they did encounter a few challenges.  Through their interactions, the students learned about some current issues that exist in the voting process.  For example, some people last year had Voter ID's, but their names were missing from the Voters List.  Other people had never had their Voter ID's issued to them. 

The LEAD students hope that the Voting Awareness Program will increase the voting rate.  

SDM Leadership Camp, 27-28 Oct

On 27^th and 28^th of October, 2012 SDM Leadership Camp was conducted and hosted by SDMCET Dharwad, a partnering college of LEAD. Out of 200 LEAD members, 45 best members were chosen for the Camp. LEAD members who had completed their one project or have shown leadership abilities during the period were selected for this camp. SDMCET, KLEIT, BVBCET, SKSVMACET(Agadi)-Laxmeshwar, Government Engineering College Haveri, Karnataka Science College Dharwad and DET's MSE students participated in this camp.

The objective of the camp was to bring excitement among participants, to help them to understand theirhidden talent, thought process on Innovative Ideas, Leadership skills,Time management, Think out of the box, Build Positivity, Learn Creativity through Art and Team building.

Ajay Suman Shukla and Abhinandan co-ordinated the overall Camp along with the SDM Leaders Govind, Manish, Kamlesh and LEAD Team members Radhakrishna, Geeta, Prashant, Vinod and Amrut were the key resource person. Mr. Prashant Dhargawe and Sharika Savkar from LEAD Nashik also took part in this camp.

 27^th October, First day first sessions started with understanding the expectations of all the participants. Later based on the expectation, activities were organized to understand the team dynamics, team work, team building and coordination followed by Art and Creative Sessions.

Second Session was with vibrant presentation by Mr. Prashant Deshpande on Leadership Quality. This session included with outdoor activities on concentration and effective listening.

Scavenger Hunt and Presentation was organized at the SDM venue to make students understand the group dynamics. This was followed with a competition with 5 groups and winner group was selected based on team performance and craziest Ideas.

The day ended with Fun filled activities at SDM with delicious food but participants continued till mid night by sharing their experience of the day and fun activities.

28^th October Second day, beginning with Surya Namaskara and outdoor activities such as dog in the bowl was taken place followed by an game activity was conducted to forgo egoness and further students were divided into 5groups and Self-Realization activity was conducted and a session was taken by Vinod Kumar with lots of Q&A which made students to realize and come out of their comfort zone, which had a very positive interaction group wise and also one on one session after the post lunch. Self realization activity was as combination of interactive session with few inspiring and mesmerizing videos which madeeveryone to think and keep innovation on everyone’s mind.

Second session was taken over by Amrut with an activity of business plan coming up with innovative ideas on the topics given to all the groups. Groups were asked to come up with innovative and crazy ideas on the product given to the team with a marketing strategy to be presented as a team. Presentation was judged by the team work, co-ordination, presentation skills, communication skills, innovative features and performance in Q&A session.

The Day was concluded by judging all the activities and by providing the necessary feedbacks to the students and followed by vote of thanks.

Project: Cloth Bank

LEADer: Pradeep Pujari


Project Description: The team collected clothes in various areas of Dharwad and donated it to a music school for poor children at Kalkeri.

Project: Cloth & Fund collection for Karnataka Flood

LEADer: Nagraj
Karnataka flood relief fund

Project Description: The students from the SDM Collected 3 bags of cloths and around a thousand rupees from the local community which was included with the relief fund given by the Deshpande Foundation. The team from the foundation visited the most affected areas of karnataka to distribute the cloths and other essentials to the people.

Project: "Laxmisingankere"

The LEADer says "I, 'Anusha Jagannath', the leader of the project "service to mankind is service to god" have successfully completed the project. My team had 5 members (3rd sem engg. at SDMCET). i.e myself, Bharati, Bibisumayya, Seema and Bhagyalaxmi. We did slum awareness programme. It lasted for 1 week. The first 3 days went on fundraising, clothbanking and surveying of the slum. 

"Laxmisingankere" at Dharwad. We collected Rs.1471/- in two days for the collection of items to be distributed for the slum dwellers. The items were given to 35 "below poverty line" families on the last day. They included dettol soaps, ear buds, towel and pens, pencils for the kids.

We also gave them awareness about the importance of hygiene and sanitation, time to time vaccination for children, drinking boiled water, avoiding self medication, precautionary measures to handle gas cylinders and stove. We collected Rs.250/- from the Despande Foundation.

The biggest challenge we faced was to convince those people who were not ready to accept new measures and were not even ready to share their difficulties with us. But anyway we managed to finally convince them and helped them to lead a healthier life."

Project: Cloth Bank

LEADer: Amruta K.R
Place of Implementation: Seva Bharati Trust, Hubli

Collection of Clothes:

Distributing Clothes to Seva Bharati Trust:

Project: Plantation

LEADer: Amruta K.R
Place of Implementation: KHB Colony, Sattur

Project Description: The objective of this project was to plant trees in this locality. About 75 saplings were planted and fenced. An awareness was created in the neighborhood to take care of them.

Project: Parihar - Paper Bags

LEADer: Santosh Sonnagi

Project Implementation Place: Dharwad

Project Period: 2/1/2009 to 15/2/2009

Project: Development of Garden

LEADer: Shishir Khadam

Project Implementation Place: Channabasaveshwara Nagar, Dharward