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International Women's Day 2016: Recognizing the Unrecognized

Women work without a break for their families, society, and friends all through the year. So, on IWD 2016, LEAD conducted their 3rd annual "Recognizing the Unrecognized", where women in our society who are rarely recognized but are responsible for important work were recognized for their contributions, such as cleaning railway stations, bus stands, picking household trash, selling vegetables etc. LEAD and LEADers believe that, without these women, our communities would come to a standstill.

About LEAD

The youth of today are the leaders of tomorrow. To that purpose, the LEaders Accelerating Development (LEAD) Program of the Deshpande Foundation was born. LEAD develops innovative and entrepreneurial thinking within college students by exposing them to social issues, encouraging them to volunteer their time and effort into the community, and igniting their latent talent to come up with creative solutions. Through this unique platform provided by LEAD, students are gaining the skills and confidence needed to transform their visions into realities. Armed with guidance, exposure, networking opportunities, financial assistance, and encouragement from LEAD, students from throughout 75 colleges and 14 districts are unleashing their leadership potential to go on inspiring and improving those around them.

Inspire, Innovate, Engage: Yuva Summit 2016

The 6th Yuva Summit, an international youth conference on leadership, innovation, and entrepreneurship hosted by the Leaders Accelerating Development program, began in Hubballi on 6th February with Mr. Ravindranath Gumaste, Managing Director of Kirloskar Ferrous Industries Ltd., cutting the ceremonial ribbon that let the hundreds of attendees, including students, faculty, entrepreneurs, and honoured guests, into the event grounds.

LEAD Prayana 2016

On 24th January, 107 promising students from across Karnataka and neighbouring states descended upon the VTU campus in Belagavi to mark the kick-off of the 5th annual LEAD Prayana. These students, along with 32 beginning their journey on the same day in Nizamabad, were selected from a pool of almost 500 applicants. LEAD Prayana, which began in 2012 with just 63 students, is an annual leadership journey that takes almost 150 passionate students between the ages of 18-26 throughout India on a 14-day tour across Karnataka...

My Story: Prajwal M

I am passionate about science, especially physics. My affair with Science started during my childhood and it deepened in my high school when I started participating in Science exhibitions with my models. During Pre University Education, I built the Levitation Train with few of my friends and grabbed prizes at several competitions. “Physics of the Impossible” by Michio Kaku was a book that exposed me further to the vastness of the science and motivated me to start a science group called “Blackbody Science Group (Which Absorbs All Wavelength of Intuitive Minds)”. This group engages in creating interest about science among government and physically disabled school children.

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Project: Science of Life

Shivanand Patil (KLECET)

In his project, Shivanand taught a practical science experiment to students at a government high school. After teaching the science experiment, Shivanand encouraged the school to hold a separate class for conducting science experiments. His project cost only Rs 1500, but with this money, Shivanand was able to change the school’s curriculum to incorporate more hands-on and practical learning. Because of Shivanand, the students of the high school are receiving a more diverse education.

Posted on Wednesday, February 20, 2013

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Project: Science Exhibition

LEADer Asha

Location: Challakere

A LEAD student of GMIT, Asha conducted a district-level science exhibition for primary school students in Challakere. In this project, she took initiative to demonstrate science experiments to 40 government school students. This gave a platform for scientific thinking for the students to gain practical knowledge. Sri Nagaraj, a science teacher, helped in the science lab to conduct the experiments. The teacher explained to the students how to do simple experiments with the help of best out of waste. Students were very much impressed with the simple idea and the scientific experiments.This was a typical knowledge exchange program. On behalf of LEAD, leader Asha gifted a FM radio to the school to study the lessons by listening to the radio.

Posted on Thursday, December 13, 2012

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Project: Tap Water

LEADer: Disha Bhat

Disha Bhat from BVBCET found that people are wasting lot of water in Annageri village. She came up with an idea that by using simple sensor technology it would reduce the wastage of water. She and her team went to Annigeri village and implemented this module for ten families. She explained to the villagers how science is used in our daily life.