AKSIPS-41 Smart School, Chandigarh

The school organised a Career Awareness Week under their SATH Programme (Supporting Adolescents Together to Heal) Life Skills Centre for classes XI and XII students. The school welcomed resource persons from diverse areas of expertise, who spoke about unconventional career options available in today’s era. Shweta from the ICSI, Sumit Wason from Pearl Academy, and Priti Chaudhary from Chitkara University were the resource persons who talked about careers in CS (Company Secretary), eccentric careers of the future, and liberal arts, respectively. School counsellor Tannu Kapila also spoke about career awareness and 21st-century integrated life skills, which helped encourage children to focus on developing essential life skills. The skill gap often leads to disappointment, and the four-day career awareness event encouraged students to think beyond the limited options they often hear about or observe in their surroundings.