Connecting With Students - Part Two
About us We were mostly school students and some college students. With the support of my parents and Mr. G. A. Ganesh, we reached out to rural government schools. The rural government schools are filled with young minds who can be shaped to become great inventors and gamechangers in tomorrow's world. We are in no way superior to the students or the instructors, but as a group, we discussed, debated and learnt a lot about how little we understood although we all have passed, even scored well in lower grades. This gap between the expected knowledge and the amount of knowledge an average student gains is what we tried to target and highlight. Our plan We tried to come up with interactive sessions involving games, activities and discussions. This was a harder task than we had anticipated. To provide informative, engaging yet concise sessions to students who are of almost the same age as we were was a difficult task. Keeping in mind their attention span and the kind of cross-perspecti...