Warm clothes distributed

Jalandhar: Under social campaign ‘We Care, We Share’ for the deprived members of the society, St Soldier Group of Institutions distributed warm clothes to the inmates of Apahaj Ashram. Vice Chairperson Sangeeta Chopra along with principal Manginder Singh and the staff members were present at the occasion. Chopra distributed warm suits, masks and fruits among the residents of Apahaj Ashram and assured them about fulfillment of the needs of the residents.

Day of reconciliation celebrated

Eklavya School celebrated “The day of Reconciliation” with its students. Educators briefed their students about ‘The Reconciliation’ that it is a public holiday in South Africa. School educators conducted ‘Poster-making competition’ for primary students in which students participated with great zeal. Director Seema Handa addressed the students with the purpose of fostering reconciliation and national unity. Principal Arvinder Kaur and administrator Dimple Malhotra also appreciated the efforts of the students.

Laurels for institute

A UCMAS online state-level competition was held a few days back in which the students from Punjab and Haryana participated. As many as 25 students from the Model Town centre of UCMAS bagged positions including 19 runners-up and six in merit. Sezal, Aahuti, Mannat, Ansh and Aviraj are among the top students, said director of the centre Ruchi Nanda.

Workshop on soft skills in maths

The PG department of mathematics of Hans Raj Mahila Maha Vidyalaya organised a one-day online workshop on ‘Soft skills in mathematics’. The overall in charge and moderator of the workshop was HoD mathematics, Gagandeep. Principal Prof Ajay Sareen welcomed all participants. The resource person for the workshop was Dr Suraj Goyal, Asst Prof, department of mathematics, JC Bose University of Science and Technology, YMCA, Faridabad, who gave a lecture on the topic ‘Matlab for beginners’, which is a high performance software package for computing and he provided a hands on practical information on the software. Dr Rajni Sharma, Asst Prof, department of mathematics, DAVIET, provided theoretical and practical aspect on the topic ‘Introduction to Latex’ which has been really informative for the students and is specially designed to write research papers. Dr Gaurav was the moderator for the event.

Virtual creativity week

With an endeavour to manifest the artistic potential of students, the cultural team of Innocent Hearts Group of Institutions organised a ‘Virtual creativity week’ with three activities namely craft competition, card-making and flower arrangement competition. In craft competition, participants prepared beautiful objects by utilising waste material and showcased their imagination. Participants designed and decorated Christmas cards, thank you cards for Corona warriors and New Year greeting cards with various materials such as metallic paints, glitter powders, lace, kundan work, beads, sequences etc. during card-making activity. Each card was unique and gracefully exhibited the creativity of every student. Vibrant flowers were designed by participants with crepe paper, tissue paper craft stock and fabric in flower making activity. Priya, Vanita and Simpy were the winners of craft contest, while Bhavika, Garima, Jasleen and Sehjal were the winners of card-making competion. Muskan and Lovepreet won the prizes for flower making. Dr ShaileshTripathi (Group Director, IHGI) congratulated the winners and participants of the event.

Webinar on stress management

Ivy World School organised a webinar on ‘Stress management and self-importance’. The school has also been organising webinars for children and their parents to discuss the change in the psychology of students as the pandemic has greatly disturbed everyone. The webinar was conducted by Anmol Bakshi who started with the main topic ‘I’. Many tips about stress management were given and a short film ‘Khat’ was shown to teachers which helped them to understand that longings never end so it’s better to have some expectations from ourselves and try to keep them on priority. Principal S Chauhan accentuated the efforts put in by the school management and faculty keeping teachers’ health as the main focus of the webinar. President of Vasal Education Society K K Vasal appreciated the efforts taken by the school for making the teachers understand self-importance and reduce stress.

Rafia third in MA Political Science

Rafia, a student of MA (Sem-IV Political Science), of Hans Raj Mahila Maha Vidyalaya, has got third position in Guru Nanak Dev University by securing 1313/1600. Principal Prof Ajay Sareen congratulated her, HoD Nita Malik, Alka Sharma and Dr Jiwan Devi. — TNS