National Service Scheme, IIT Madras Volunteer Meet 21 st January 2014.
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National Service Scheme, IIT Madras
Volunteer Meet
21st January 2014
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What We Have to Say Today
A quick sum-up
What’s in store for this semester?
Credits?!
Project Opportunities
Frequently Asked Questions
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A quick sum-up
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• Dal 31kg• Oil 5.3litre• Sugar 18kg• Rice 73kg• Clothes 350• Toys 12
DOS every month- Some statistics
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Cloth & Foot wear Collection Drives
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Winterns !
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Events
A skit to kindle the nationalistic feelings, during campus Republic Day celebrations.
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Events
Awareness lecture on corruption by 5th Pillar, an NGO campaigning for better governance in the country.(26th Jan, 6 PM)
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Events
DOS collections every month
2nd Feb 2nd Mar 31st Mar
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Events
Field Trip
• One – day event with Gold Heart foundation
• Interaction with kids at Boys Home (Royapettah)
• 8th Feb
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Events
One sided paper collection drive
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Events
Campaigning for a waste-free Bessy beach
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Project Bessy
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Project Bessy – Cleanup drives
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Project Bessy – Creating Awareness
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• Set up more dustbins• Employ a model like ‘0wZone’ with an NGO• Involve the fishermen community• Develop a sustainable system
Project Bessy
What more can be done?
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• No support from fishermen community• Recycling not very profitable• Only clean up drives not enough
Project Bessy
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Current Problems
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• Suggestions / ideas from you• Similar initiatives
Project Bessy
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What can I do ?
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• Exhibition-cum-Sale• Letting the world know about NSS activities• Booklets, Science Toys, Teaching Kits etc.
• Mid-April
Main Target: Campus residents, school kids
UPCOMING!!! Open House
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UPCOMING!!!
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• OH-2013 Promo!
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UPCOMING!!! Open House
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• Grand Finale of NSS Activities• Mid-April• Projects close by then
UPCOMING!!! Valedictory Function
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1)Projects 45 Credits2)Events 30 Credits3)Overall 85 Credits You Pass!
4) Repeaters Min{ 2*left over credits, 85 }
Credit Requirement
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REMINDER!!!
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• A mock pass fail list based on the performance till now, will be released.
• Check the NSS website.
Mock Pass/Fail list
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I don’t have enough credits!
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All credits (except winterns) have been uploaded!
Valid complaints have been looked into!
If any further issues, - Projects: Ask your Project Representatives. - Events: Mail to [email protected].
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• Attend the DOS Collections, lectures/movie screenings from now
• Handle events – Like Bessy
• Make booklets/toys• Help in designing magazines• Make project videos
Secret to earning credits!
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• Proactively participate. We need initiative.- Propose a new project- Excel in your project- Take up multiple projects
• Contribute to the Open House.
Secret to earning credits!
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• Need not be a full fledged project – can be an event too
• Suggest an idea, organize an event, make things happen!
• Individual or group• Anything that adds value• Can be a Project (of specified duration) or a Task
(event)
Start your own project!
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• Make booklets• Make an original booklet, which can be used by
students of the schools where our teaching projects go. • Let the booklet be a collection of related articles, which
can be used as reference by any student.• Eg. Biography of a scientist, History of nuclear energy,
etc.
• Make an infographic/pamphlets• Try making graphical representations of data which
might be very useful for students preparing for exams.
GET CREATIVE!Some more ideas
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• What is inside a computer (PC, laptop)?• What is water desalination?• What is solar energy/wind/nuclear energy?• What is global warming?• Will the world end in 2012?• What are crystals and precious stones?• How does an IC engine work?• Fundamental duties and rights• Mangalyaan and India’s plans in space
exploration in the next 2 decades
For example
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GET CREATIVE!
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• Make Toys• Arvind Gupta Toys - http://www.youtube.com/user/arvindguptatoys• Simple, fun, effective• Make them with your hands and see them used to good effect from the Open House!
• Summer/Winter Camp modules:• Create and document events, ideas and plans• Using this, we can just mix-n-match and go!
• Bring out that writer in you!• Write articles for the NSS blog• www.nssiitm.wordpress.com
Some more…
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GET CREATIVE!
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• What are you good at making ? • Put your skills to good use, to raise funds for a good
cause!• Paper bags from old newspapers? Baskets? Paper
cranes ? • Add to the variety in Open House!
Get even more creative!
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GET CREATIVE!
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• Take up charge of NSS’s biggest event this year– Ideas on keeping the visitors occupied– Have a good hand at ambience stuff?
• Ideate, organize, collaborate, create!
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Organize Open HouseGET CREATIVE!
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• My project did not happen well! What do I do now?
We are sorry your project couldn’t take off as planned. Please do move on to take up/take part in other projects and events, to earn the required number of credits. If a Project isn’t happening, well, make it happen. Initiative, yet again!
FAQs
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• How do I join multiple projects?
Consult the PR of the project you are interested in, convince him that you would add value to the project.
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No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.
~H.E. Luccock
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