Welcome to Wipro earthian 2015

Wipro earthian is...

Wipro's Sustainability

Education Programme for

meaningful sustainability

education

exposure to multiple

perspectives

focus on interconnectedness

holistic sustainability

education

engagement over a sustained period

for teachers and students

Knowing Wipro earthian : reach in 5 years

Strong reach of close to 50,000 institutions & 1 lakh+ students in 4 years

Participation -6000+

Submissions 3000+

Engagement – close to 95,000

Some of the winning teams of past years

COLLEGESSCHOOLS

Gyan Mandir Delhi

Sardar Patel Vidyalay, Delhi

Prakriya Green Wisdom School, Bangalore

Sri Kumarans Children’ Home, Bangalore

Anand Niketan, Sewagram, Wardha, Maharashtra

Purv Madhyamik Vidyalay, Bibipur, Lucknow, UP

Rachana School Ahmedabad

Bhavan’s Vidya Mandir, Eroor, Kerala

IIT Delhi

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

IIM Kozhikode

IIM Shillong

IIM – Indore

XLRI, Jamshedpur

RV College of Engineering, Bangalore

Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai

NIT, Trichy

Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu

A program with a difference:

Cash award of Rs.1,00,000/- for the top 10 schools in the

country as decided by the internal and external jury

Mr. Azim Premji gives away the awards to the top 10 school teams. Certificates

for all participating schools

Three years continuous engagement programme with winning institutions

Continued committment with support from

recognised and reputed partners organisations

One school can form several teams and submit multiple

entries. Unique opportunity-engage its teachers and

students in sustainability education

Schools

For more details visithttp://www.wipro.org/earthian/school.php

Schools get to choose from 2 themes

Biodiversity is a new theme introduced this year

For more details visithttp://www.wipro.org/earthian/school.php

Water Activity : Booklet Structure

Activities –

Part A, Part A electives & Part B

Part A and Part B are compulsory

Activity is in four parts:

Objective, Instructions, Toolkit and reflections

Scoring parameters –

Part A = 40%, Part A electives = 20 %

& Part B = 40%

Biodiversity activity : Booklet structure ...

Part A – Understanding biodiversity in our environment

(40%)

Compulsory activities – Environment as shared space,

Biodiversity among leaves, Leaf munchers, Biodiversity and

changes in environment and What have we learnt?

Elective activities – Build your own terranium, Freshwater

aquarium and Interview (20%)

Part B – The world of biodiversity (40%)

Compulsory activities – The world of biodiversity and

Opening the world of biodiversity

Activities – Objective, Instructions, Toolkit and

reflections

Role of Teachers

Role of teachers –

Teachers must play a supervisory role. Provide guidance, connect the activities, facilitate discussions, encourage interactions, build connections with disciplines

Useful Specific pointers...

Part A – Story telling, Poems, Drawings, Illustrations,

Photographs, Videos, Data charts, Graphs and other

innovative means could be used but one should loose focus of

the core task.

Part A elective activities - Complete only one of the three

elective

Part B - Part B requires a different approach from Part A.

The purpose of Part B is to connect what you learn about

biodiversity in Part A to the larger context and to other

domains.

Evaluation parameters...

Genuineness displayed in documentation, observations recorded, data provided and other evidences of carrying

out the activity sincerely

Creativity and diversity in

documentation

Sense of understanding

displayed in documentation

Display of interconnectedness between activities

Drawing interconnections between issues

Understanding of sustainability

A special treat for the first 100!

Get started!

• 10 Winning school teams. 10 awards of Rs. 100000 for each institution• Trophy for the institution and certificates for the team members• A Continuous engagement in the area of sustainability and education with students and the

winning institutes for next few years• Awards Ceremony in Bangalore. Receive your awards from Mr. Azim Premji!

Step 1Register

Step 2Submit

Step 3Get

Shortlisted

Step 4Win !

For more details visithttp://www.wipro.org/earthian

Last Date for submissions – October 31st

Wipro earthian - A sustainability education program

Introduction to the College program

How to participate! For more details visithttp://www.wipro.org/earthian/colleges.php

Read the problem statement & share your design for an urban system – Pick a topic!

For more details visithttp://www.wipro.org/earthian/colleges.php

Read the problem statements on these 3 topics and share your suggestion of a better system design!

A Wipro earthian 2015 special!

Last Date for submissions – October 31st

For more details visithttp://www.wipro.org/earthian/colleges.php

Continuous Engagement Program

For students from winning institutes, earthian offers a diverse and unique range of sustainability related internship

opportunities that can be undertaken for a period of two months. These internships are offered in partnership with our

highly reputed partner organizations who are domain specialists in sustainability and related areas. It is a great opportunity to engage with students and expose them to

interesting paradigms, schools of thought, innovations and specializations in the sustainability arena

As a part of our long term vision to further sustainability education in India, WIPRO and IIMB have embarked on a

broad collaboration of which am integral part is the curation of national forum of leading Business Schools from across the

country on the topic of `Symposium on Advancing Sustainability Research and Education´ This forum will also act as a platform for Business school faculty to share their learning

experiences in sustainability.

As a part of our long term vision to further sustainability education in India, we are planning a forum of key engineering

colleges´ This forum will also act as a platform for faculty to share their learning experiences in sustainability

For more details visithttp://www.wipro.org/earthian/cep.php

Wipro earthian internship

Business School Sustainability Symposium

Strategic intervention in college student driven events

Engineering CollegesSymposium

Walking The Talk : Wipro earthian interns

Student @ BMNIT institute of Technology, Bangalore • One of the winning teams of Wipro earthian 2014• Wipro earthian intern 2014

Internship with Atree @ the project in KMTR.

Meet Tejaswini Halthore

“ Wipro earthian internship was a life changing experience!”

For more details visithttp://www.wipro.org/earthian/cep.php

Get started!

• 10 Winning colleges. 10 awards of Rs. 150000 each ( shared by students & institution) • Trophy for the institution and certificates for the team members• A Continuous engagement in the area of sustainability and education with students and

the winning institutes for next few years• Awards Ceremony in Bangalore. Receive your awards from Mr. Azim Premji!

Step 1Register

Step 2Submit

Step 3Get

Shortlisted

Step 4Win !

For more details visithttp://www.wipro.org/earthian/colleges.php

Look out for the Wipro earthian 2015 poster in your campus!

For more details visithttp://www.wipro.org/earthian/colleges.php

Email id – earthian.contact@wipro.com

Thank youLast Date for submissions – October 31st

For more details visithttp://www.wipro.org/earthian/colleges.php