national service scheme, iit madras volunteer meet 21 st january 2014

National Service Scheme, IIT Madras

Volunteer Meet

21st January 2014

What We Have to Say Today

A quick sum-up

What’s in store for this semester?

Credits?!

Project Opportunities

Frequently Asked Questions



A quick sum-up

• Dal 31kg• Oil 5.3litre• Sugar 18kg• Rice 73kg• Clothes 350• Toys 12

DOS every month- Some statistics


Cloth & Foot wear Collection Drives



Winterns !


Events

A skit to kindle the nationalistic feelings, during campus Republic Day celebrations.


Events

Awareness lecture on corruption by 5th Pillar, an NGO campaigning for better governance in the country.(26th Jan, 6 PM)


Events

DOS collections every month

2nd Feb 2nd Mar 31st Mar


Events

Field Trip

• One – day event with Gold Heart foundation

• Interaction with kids at Boys Home (Royapettah)

• 8th Feb


Events

One sided paper collection drive


Events

Campaigning for a waste-free Bessy beach


Project Bessy


Project Bessy – Cleanup drives


Project Bessy – Creating Awareness

• 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?


• No support from fishermen community• Recycling not very profitable• Only clean up drives not enough

Project Bessy


Current Problems

• Suggestions / ideas from you• Similar initiatives

Project Bessy


What can I do ?

• 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


UPCOMING!!!


• OH-2013 Promo!


UPCOMING!!! Open House

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4c-hX-SjukDWE5lRVIzWDlLVkk/edit?usp=sharing

• Grand Finale of NSS Activities• Mid-April• Projects close by then

UPCOMING!!! Valedictory Function


1)Projects 45 Credits2)Events 30 Credits3)Overall 85 Credits You Pass!

4) Repeaters Min{ 2*left over credits, 85 }

Credit Requirement


REMINDER!!!

• A mock pass fail list based on the performance till now, will be released.

• Check the NSS website.

Mock Pass/Fail list


I don’t have enough credits!


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].

• 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!


• 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!


• 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!


• 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


• 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


GET CREATIVE!

• 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…


GET CREATIVE!

• 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!


GET CREATIVE!

• 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!


Organize Open HouseGET CREATIVE!

• 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


• 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.

FAQs


No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.

~H.E. Luccock


national service scheme, iit madras volunteer meet 21 st january 2014

Documents

iit madras slide

iit madras project bessy

iit madras open house

awareness slide

pm slide

iit madras events campaigning

iit madras current problems

iit madras volunteer