Two-day conference, 'What I can' begins at Welham Girls' School

A two-day conference, ‘What I can’ started at Welham Girls’ School here on Thursday. More than 300 students of the school are participating in the programme which aims to provide a subjective and comprehensive simulated experience of media, Government and corporate houses. One of the organisers of the event and co founder of ‘I Can’ Ashok Batra said that the students enjoyed playing the roles of journalists, politicians, bureaucrats, and corporate bigwigs during the event.

In one activity the students were divided into fifteen Corporate Houses, each group was led by a student CEOs. These CEOs perfectly enacted a scene of fast paced placement fair which made the students understand the requirement of corporate houses. In other activity students played media group CEOs entrusted with the task of selling media spaces to the marketing heads of corporate houses.

In the moot parliament the students played political leaders who as Member of Parliament elected a new Prime Minister. In the parliament discussions on national and international security and merits and demerits of capital punishment were discussed.The event was witnessed by prominent entrepreneurs like Kamal Seth, Abhimanyu Tiwari, Aashish Beergi and Nikhil Saigal who gave valuable advice to the students.

The organisers of the event said that “I Can’ is an educational movement that seeks to provide innovative methods to impart high-school and undergraduate students with the skills and experience they require to become and remain internationally competitive in the fields they chose to make their careers.