Kartavya, the CSR Club of Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Raipur and Rotary Club of Raipur Cosmopolitan will be organising ‘SHINE 2014’— an Inter School Youth Festival for the school children of the city.
The event will be conducted on August 30 and 31 at MAIC, Samta Colony.
The competitions are mainly for Junior and High School Students. Around 2,000 students from 45 different schools are expected to participate in the event.
Debate, Quiz, Chess, Solo Dance, Group Dance, Group Discussion, are some of the events that have been planned, an IIM press released informed.
The schools will be sending selected students to participate in the Festival. The last date for schools to submit their entries is August 21.
This time, several new events have been added as the seminars which will be specially conducted for mentally disabled children, First Aid, and Career Counselling Session. Most of these events will be conducted by students of IIM Raipur and experts from various fields will be judging these events.
The event will start with the Opening Ceremony at 1 pm on August 30. The closing ceremony and prize distribution ceremony will be held at 5.30 pm the next day.
According to the President of Rotary Club, Rtn. Rahul Jain, the club has been organising this festival for past few years but this time they have joined hands with IIM Raipur to improve the quality of events.
The students of IIM Raipur also feel that this is a wonderful opportunity to hone their managerial skills.
The Managing Committee of this event includes—Program Chairman Rtn Ashish Nathani, Co-Chairmen Rtn Nitin Bardia, Rtn Parag Bhandari and IIM Co-Ordinator Amrit Jain.